Some centers offer a self-pay discount.
We expanded this definition to include patients whose insurance was identified as "self pay," "indigent," and "hospital responsibility," because caring for the uninsured is a key mission of safety net hospitals.
The numerator specific to each age group in each county was the number of ACS admissions for which the payment source was identified as "self pay" in the discharge record.
5 42 Following previous work, we defined safety net hospitals as the top quarter of hospitals in Massachusetts by the proportion of all inpatient admissions in the period before reform with the primary payer identified as self paying, Medicaid, or Free Care (a publicly funded program for the uninsured).
But she has not been able to raise the money she needs to compete with an opponent, W. Cliff Oxford, who was tapped by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee as a "self-financer" who could pay for his own campaign.
For many years, as a self-employed consultant, I paid enormous insurance company premiums -- as much as $7,500 a year.
Mr. Monski, described by the S.E.C. as a self-employed investor, agreed to pay $25,000, including a $10,000 penalty and $15,000 in disgorged profits and interest.
Increasingly, I've heard stories of patients who discover their much-needed surgery is actually not covered by their insurance and decide to pay as a self-funded private patient.
Income tax isn't the only tax you need to pay as a self-employed person — like ordinary workers, you also owe money for payroll taxes which cover Social Security and Medicare.
As a self-contained business, Mediaset's pay-TV offering is unimpressive: it may barely break even this year.
