Sentence examples for fixed sum for from inspiring English sources

Under the new system, starting in 2020 Washington would pay the states only a fixed sum for each enrollee.

The Court of Appeals reasoned that since it would not be unlawful to agree to pay a fixed sum for the privilege to use patents, it was not unlawful to provide a variable consideration measured by a percentage of the licensee's sales for the same privilege.

Well, it might include things like giving an independent commission the power to ensure that Medicare only pays for procedures with real medical value; rewarding health care providers for delivering quality care rather than simply paying a fixed sum for every procedure; limiting the tax deductibility of private insurance plans; and so on.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has created a whole division to develop RAB, where a regulator would set a fixed sum for the power station's costs and fixed returns for the developer, paid for by energy billpayers or taxpayers.

It has been suggested that these high salaries could be a product of practitioner contracts  introduced back in 2006, which give dentists a fixed sum for a set amount of work agreed at the start of the year, as opposed to charging for the amount of work done or patients seen.

Plans vary, but typically they try to cut costs by giving private managed-care organizations a fixed sum for a lifetime of care, from doctor and hospital visits to help at home to nursing home placement, expecting that more care will take place in less expensive settings.

The government of India has promised to pay Infosys a fixed sum of money for every tax return the company prepares.

This may rely on corporate bonds paying fixed sums of interest, for example, or companies dishing out dividends.

Examples could be a decorator agreeing to paint a house for a set fee or a courier agreeing to deliver something for a fixed sum.

There was, to use the traditional classification, debt on the record, debt on an obligation (when the creditor produced a deed or bond), and debt sur contract (when a creditor sued for a fixed sum owed under an informal agreement).

Mr. McClellan and other health economists hope that those experiments that prove successful ultimately replace Medicare's fee-for-service system — which they say rewards doctors and hospitals for ordering multiple and often unnecessary procedures — with bundled payments that encourage each patient's various caregivers to coordinate care for a fixed sum.