"hold payment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to keep or delay making a payment. It is often used in business transactions, contracts, or agreements. Example: "We will hold payment for the services until the completion of the project."
"With interest rates escalating, trying to hold payments constant is getting expensive".
If Medicare is unable to hold payments down as projected, that date could advance even further.
The federal government can also seek restitution from the state for failing to hold payments when there is credible evidence.
Under federal law, the state needs credible evidence — but less proof than what is needed to prosecute the provider — to hold payments while investigations continue.
It will hold payments flat for the next 10 months instead of cutting them by 27 percent as the formula required, and the $18 billion to pay for it will be taken from other health care programs.
One development that has been hurting brokers, Mr. Hicks said, is that instead of letting brokers hold payments from clients for up to 90 days, the insurers now demand swift payment, which reduces potential profit on short-term investments.
They differ from conventional sales platforms in three main ways: They use Bitcoin for settlement; they hold payments with a third party; they don't seek customer data.
In September, Apple announced a new payment system called Apple Pay that will let people use their phones to pay for items in brick-and-mortar checkouts; Stripe, a privately held payment startup that competes with PayPal, was included on a list of early Apple partners, while PayPal wasn't.
It acts as the middleman, holding payment until the vendor sends shipping confirmation.
