How do different levels of individual payments for environmental services (PES) affect intrinsic and social motivations for forest conservation?
Chris Messerly, a pro bono lawyer for 103 victims, said amounts of individual payments would not be made public.
"Lump" payments for a given condition (angina, asthma) rather than individual payments for each test ordered would push physicians to minimize testing rather than maximize it, and thus limit cost.
The hospital receives a payment for dealing with a patient's underlying condition rather than individual payments for each test and treatment.
Under the new payment system, a single payment is paid to a hospital and a physician group for a defined episode of care (such as a hip replacement) rather than individual payments to individual service providers.
Some states have nevertheless increased individual payments.
But each individual payment is small.
The company launched "Borderless" accounts in May of this year for small businesses who make regular international transactions, and that product is expanding later this year with Borderless accounts for individuals and payment cards.
Private individuals' payments generally account for a smallish share of health-care spending precisely because medical bills tend to be so high that everybody needs insurance cover of one sort or another.
Medicare already absorbs some similar episode-based risk with outlier payments for individual hospital admissions that are substantially more costly than the specific DRG payment.
