Sentence examples for distinct payment from inspiring English sources

It is comprised of three distinct payment programs though which it provides services to beneficiaries: "traditional," fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare; Medicare Advantage (MA); and the Medicare Shared Savings and Pioneer accountable care organizations (ACO) programs.

Visa and MasterCard, the world's two largest payment systems, have been watching m-banking developments in Africa closely, recognizing that handsets are likely to emerge as a distinct payment channel.

Being the first, and as of now the only company to build upon Sina Weibo's virtual currency Sina Weibi, Yikuair has developed a marketplace combining social, local, mobile and commerce in an effort to help connect online/offline merchants and consumers and to offer them special deals through a distinct micro-payment system powered by Sina Weibo, the No. 1 Chinese twitter-like service.

We thus far have characterized optimal contracts under two distinct regimes: outlier payment and patient dumping.

Data compiled by the Physician Insurers Association of America show a distinct rise in payments of more than $1 million to victims of medical mistakes.

Conflating individuals payments for health care with private health insurance is not accurate to understand the extent to which government versus private insurance companies pay for services, it is important to keep individual's payments distinct.

Giving gifts to health workers seems normal and distinct from unofficial payments in the Baltic States, as in other countries in the former Soviet Union [ 35].

If voters actually perceive their payments to Social Security as distinct from their other payments to the government, then this is not really money that is available for other purposes.

But veterans groups say the two payments serve distinct purposes, and one should not force a reduction of the other.

The Court's argument would equate family [p503] grant maximums with percentage reductions, but the two are, in fact, quite distinct devices for limiting welfare payments.

Under the EU's "Agenda 2000" farm policies, EU governments can already divert up to 20% of direct payments ("direct", as distinct from price supports) aimed at their farmers into rural development and environmental projects, provided the EU funds are matched with national cash.