Sentence examples similar to customary rating from inspiring English sources

United Health owns Ingenix, the company used by the industry to calculate reasonable and customary rates.

Insurers use the data to determine usual and customary rates for care received outside their networks.

According to Mr. Cuomo, the databases consistently understated the local "reasonable and customary" rates, which Ingenix collects from insurers.

Spending by cash-strapped consumers and investment by skittish businesses both grew at slightly below customary rates.

That is the disturbing possibility raised by an investigation of the industry's arcane procedures for calculating "reasonable and customary" rates.

Now assume that your employer has opted for H.I.A.A. 80 as its "reasonable and customary" rate, and that the surveys peg that fee for the exam at $200.

When patients visit an out-of-network doctor, insurers typically agree to pay 80percentt of the reasonable and customary rate charged by doctors in the same geographic area.

In earlier days there was often not even individual bargaining, because customary rates of pay prevailed that might be unchanged for many years at a time.

With the exception of the coal regions, where purchasing operations are not going forward at the customary rate because of strike negotiations, conditions in the equipment market are encouraging.

Mr. Cuomo said Ingenix had consistently understated local "usual and customary" rates — so-called U.C.R.'s — that were used nationally to determine how much of a bill was paid when a patient used an out-of-network doctor.

In the case of a $275 liver checkup, for example, the balance due was $175, almost three times the patient share under Fair Health's customary rate, and three and a half times what it was five years ago under Ingenix.