Risk adjustment mechanisms to compensate health plans that enroll a sicker pool of patients should prevent death spirals and reduce insurers' incentive to skim off the healthy.
Remittances are often raised as a counter argument to compensation but money sent home provides important support for families; it does not directly compensate health systems for their losses.
Also on the hit list are the law's definition of "full time" as any employee who works 30 hours a week or more, provisions that compensate health insurers for market losses and an excise tax on medical devices, including the machines that produce CAT scans and magnetic resonance images.
Payment to compensate health workers' time is essential to motivate CDSS utilization, especially at the outset.
Secondly, most formulae seek to compensate health plans for costs that exist outside the scope of measures of health need alone.
A risk equalization process was established that uses 'risk pools' to compensate health insurers whose covered population is older, more risky, and costly in comparison to other plans.
Chronotope analysis fills an important gap in the science through compensating current health sciences' focus on rationality, cognition, and prospective time (prediction) with a patient-oriented focus on emotionality, embodiment, and retrospective time (nostalgia).
The biggest settlement was the $206 billion which the tobacco industry agreed to pay over 25 years to 46 American states to compensate for health costs incurred through state-backed health insurance schemes for treating smoking-related illnesses.
