In such settings economic evaluation may also be used to: 1) evaluate payment schemes for and budgets of health care institutions, 2) plan payment systems for health care providers, 3) evaluate cost-sharing arrangements, 4) encourage competition and 5) review utilization of medical technology [ 14].
Other studies evaluating payments to influence health behaviour found financial incentives were effective in increasing infrequent behaviours such as attending clinic appointments particularly in low-income groups, and recommended payments as being more effective than information and less restrictive than legislation.
This study evaluated Payment for Ecosystem Services PESS) implementation in a smallholder settlement in an Atlantic forest reserve in Paraguay, designed to stop and reverse deforestation due to expansion of subsistence agriculture, which was identified to be the main deforestation or forest degradation threat that may spread beyond the settlement.
General Electric said it would pay a planned 31-cent dividend to shareholders, but its chief executive, Jeffrey R. Immelt, said the board would evaluate dividend payments for the second half of the year as uncertainty grows over the economy and G.E.'s ability to maintain its top credit rating.
The new health care law encourages government programs to evaluate new payment systems, allocating $10 billion to develop innovations within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
When evaluating total payments by primary payer type, the mean payments were similar.
We will assess the progressivity of the health financing system by evaluating the payments made towards healthcare across different socioeconomic groups in relation to their ATP.
There is currently a considerable effort to evaluate the performance of Payments for Ecosystem Services as an environmental management tool.
To the Authors' best knowledge, there is no such a dataset with transaction data from a payment terminal available that will allow to design and evaluate new solutions in payment ecosystems.
The test is intended to "evaluate the potential of contactless payments to simplify fare payment for customers," said Peter S. Kalikow, the authority's chairman.
