In so doing, they gave unprecedented authority to unelected experts to make Medicare payment policy involving hundreds of billions of dollars and impacting tens of millions of seniors.
"The concept of a payment policy that supports quality and safety is something that we support, " says Nancy Foster, who handles quality and patient safety issues for the American Hospital Association.
Valuations under these regs are determined with reference to a policy's accumulation or account value, which is generally the premium payment less policy charges plus interest.
It said the companies were financially bonded with a total payment protection policy in respect of coach holidays sold before 31 December 2010.
As noted earlier, the board has no statutory impact whatsoever on Medicare payment rates and policy during the years when the spending targets are being met.
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Mr. Flanagan, being a COBRA participant, was provided with specific instructions about his rights under COBRA, and the payment terms of his policy.
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Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decided to conduct a National Coverage Assessment of Provenge in order to set a standardized policy about payment.
But that increase is only temporary, and as AEI health policy scholar Joe Antos has pointed out, the policy merely elevates Medicaid payment rates to 77 percent of private rates for two years, after which they will drop back to 58 percent.
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Mr Correa is likely to pursue a policy of renegotiation rather than non-payment, in an attempt to reduce the 12% coupon paid on its Global 2012 bonds.
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Make sure that your policy does not include a clause excluding payment in the event that you are killed in the line of duty, and be sure that you are protected in the event of a traumatic injury.
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The Severance Payment : If an employee is already entitled to receive a severance payment, whether pursuant to an employment contract or company policy, there is no need to sign a severance agreement to get that money.
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"The ostrich policy can only work for so long: postponing payment of a bill will not make it go away, " he argued.
China Life said its sales force of about 740, 000 agents will be focused more on higher-margin policy sales rather than short-term or single payment products.
Rather than try to win a judgment in excess of a small firm's liability insurance policy (and potentially force it to liquidate assets, which complicates payment), plaintiffs in many states can sue all along the company's supply chain to sweeten the spoils.
These are policies which promise to pay out a supposedly fixed sum to the policy holder's inheritors when the customer eventually dies, with the payment coming from the investment proceeds of the person's monthly premiums.
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Once again, Congress failed to stop the annual charade of scheduled Medicare physician payment cuts and short-term patches, which spends more taxpayer money to perpetuate a policy everyone agrees is fatally flawed.
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Market expectations have been rising for some form of policy easing measures, such as letting financial firms offer preferential mortgage and down payment rates, though limits on home purchases are likely to remain in effect for some time.
"Our contracts require payment of minimum wage, " says Anne Burt, a spokesperson, adding that Syngenta has a strict policy against child labor.
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