Owners would get a 15 percent discount and automatically be invoiced via the Internet.
The contracts reportedly pay Tenet at about a 10 percent discount to traditional commercial contracts.
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But the fee is offset by a 5-percent discount on purchases, and about half the town participates.
There will be a minimum 15 percent discount for evening subscriptions and 10 percent for Saturday matinees.
The Net Present Value of the two options considered here are calculated using a 6 percent discount rate.
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The federal government mandates that drug makers generally give Medicaid a 23-percent discount.
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"Pushing costly, unpleasant tasks into the future is like a getting a 50 percent discount on them, psychologically, " Laibson said.
By way of background, a 10 percent discount off of commercial hospital rates would be better than Medicaid in most markets.
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Once the agency is able to set its own fees, micro-entities can also receive the 75 percent discount on this fee.
By scanning a bar code in the store, Amazon would give the customer a 5 percent discount, up to five dollars.
Of course, a mandated 40-percent discount is larger than the 20% to 30% rebates that are the norm currently in Part D.
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In that context, even a 90 percent discount may not seem attractive.
The USPTO has also published for review a proposed fee schedule that will expand an existing 50 percent discount on patent application fees for small entities.
The 5 percent discount with BerkShares probably doesn't hurt either.
For a limited time, existing MonoTouch customers can receive a 50 percent discount off a similar Mono for Android Edition by using their activation code as a discount code.
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Today, Chinese stocks trade at a 20 percent discount.
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There are talks with Europcar, one of the largest car rental companies in Europe, to offer smart owners a 20 percent discount on rentals so they have access to larger vehicles when needed.
Customers who'd prefer to back out from the deal will have until July 15th to apply for a refund from the company, and as a goodwill gesture, it's offering a 15 percent discount for all those willing to endure the wait.
The hospital chain said that since the provider will be responsible for collecting a much smaller portion of the bill from the patient directly (and risk not getting paid), the net effect of the 10 percent discount from traditional commercial rates may be fully mitigated.
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It's been in the news lately. (Laughter.) Because of the health reform law that we passed, women finally have more power to make their choices about their health care. (Applause.) Last year, more than 20 million women received expanded access to preventive services like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings at no additional cost. (Applause.) Nearly 2 million women enrolled in Medicare received a 50-percent discount on the medicine that they need.
Hence, the Fed entered the crisis with the Federal Funds target rate at 5.25 percent and the discount rate at 6.25 percent.
On Friday, the ECB announced that it was reducing its benchmark interest rate to a record low 0.75 percent, down from 1 percent, while the PBOC lowered interest rates on one-year loans from 6.31 percent to 6 percent, and said that banks can discount rates by as much as 30 percent below that benchmark, an increase from the previously allowed 20 percent.
The words sale, discount, percent off, and limited offer lure consumers into a store or complete the online cart shopping process.
Tenet Healthcare, for one, has offered Blue Cross Blue Shield a discount of 10 percent off of its standard commercial rates.
Then discount everything by 50 percent since promised spending cuts (oops, I mean reductions in previously planned increases) tend to evaporate.
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More than half of wealthy Chinese and 49 percent of Japanese say that brands that discount their merchandise are not truly luxury brands.
Rapidly expanding Lion Air is Indonesia's top discount carrier, holding about a 45 percent market share in the country, a sprawling archipelago of 240 million people that's seeing a boom in both economic growth and air travel.
The discount makes the payout to charity, as a percent of the trust's assets, look bigger than it really is and the gift to the heirs a lot smaller--exactly what the donor wants.
By reducing the discount rate, the Fed intentionally abandoned the traditional one percent differential in order to deal with the crisis.
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