If the ObamaCare Exchanges experience even a fraction of the excessive costs that the high-risk pools have seen, Congress will have no choice but to cut eligibility, provider payments, or subsidies.
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Still, it is hard to imagine states finding so much inefficiency in the program that they could manage a 30 percent cut in federal funding without slashing benefits, provider payments, or both.
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Case in point: Heyzap, the so-called "YouTube of Flash games, " just partnered with mobile payments provider Boku this week.
In that sense, instead of building its own payments service Facebook could also partner with another payments provider and build out the loyalty piece, perhaps as a new version of the Check-in Deals.
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It is essential for Visa to stay ahead of its competitors in mobile payments if it wants to retain its position as the top payments technology provider.
Most recently I have tried to contact my student loan provider in order to renegotiate the payments and possibly the interest and I have been told by American Education Services that I do not have negotiation rights on my loans.
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CustomMade plans to soon accept payments through its site using a third-party provider.
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For nearly two years, the California-based financial solutions provider has offered a plastic swiper for entrepreneurs and small businesses to accept mobile payments.
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Oltio is a mobile payment service provider based in South Africa and will offer MasterCard?s open loop and remote payments solutions to merchants in the country.
Meanwhile, managed-care companies are squeezing payments to doctors so tightly that in late December 485 Denver-area physicians scrapped their HMO provider, Antero Healthplans, rather than accept a 15% cut.
Late in 2010 he reached out to Andrew Murstein, president of Medallion Financial, a provider of taxicab financing, and Douglas Bergeron, the chief executive of Verifone Systems, which handles electronic payments for banks and retailers.
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