Traditional episode-of-care payment systems (for example, Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system), bundled payments systems, and comprehensive payment systems (embodied in accountable care organizations) are all examples of reimbursement models under which healthcare organizations stand to benefit from reducing inpatient costs [ 2].
That makes a payment system a very attractive alternative; it embodies the economic precept that if you want to stop a behaviour, you should tax the behaviour, not regulate the side effects.
Payment, the moment in the restaurant ritual which embodies the emotional drama at its core — you please me, I pay — is also being upended.
The growing, vibrant and multifaceted international openness movement includes many speciality components: open data, open budgets, open contracts, open foreign aid, open extractive industry payments, open parliaments, and open government generally, as embodied in the Open Government Partnership.
Maintenance payments aren't simply financial transactions, they can come to embody and reflect the quality of family relationships.
The paper develops a framework for tracing global money flows from payments for specific consumer goods in one or more economies to receipts by owners of the embodied factors of production under alternative scenarios about the future.
Whereas negotiable instruments embody a claim for the payment of money, documents of title embody claims to goods.
The negotiable instrument, which is essentially a document embodying a right to the payment of money and which may be transferred from person to person, developed historically from efforts to make credit instruments transferable; that is, documents proving that somebody was in their debt were used by creditors to meet their own liabilities.
Peoria embodies such scepticism.
StarCraft II embodies it.
Painting embodies imagination.
