Other businesses will have their own unique characteristics — you could slowly implement fee increases for existing customers (as discussed above), provide transition pricing, or convert past-activity into benefit/tier levels, to name a few.
Under the new system, smaller and less sophisticated providers will be required to implement Medicaid-compatible fee-for-service billing protocols and preserve electronic records for use and documentation review.
Despite its well established disadvantage of causing cost inflation which can be a major threat to sustainability - and sometimes leading to unnecessary provision of services because it requires very little technical expertise to implement - fee for service is a common payment mechanism in many low income countries (Ghana National Health Insurance Authority).
†† Some districts in the country were implementing a fee-for-service scheme [Bamako initiative type of cost recovery], some had normal user fees, while a few had not/were just starting to implement any form of cost sharing.
Quasi-market purchasing can be implemented through fee-for-service reimbursements, vouchers, retrospective budgeting, and the like.
Nov 1 (Reuters) - Former financial regulator Sheila Bair voiced worries about a new industry compromise plan for money market mutual funds, including implementing a fee for withdrawals during times of stress, saying it could worsen a crisis.
One element of franchising that has not yet been implemented is fee for service, which is a potential financing mechanism for sustaining services in the long run.
This kind of system-level, population-based intervention may be harder to implement in a fee-for-service setting unless the additional care integration tasks can be reimbursed.
"I know this is controversial and I'm going to catch a lot of heat for this," Hickenlooper said in support of the HB-1228, the bill that implements a fee for gun buyers to pay for their background checks, The Denver Post reported.
SunTrust Bank recently implemented a $5-a-month 5-a-month 5-a-monthpurchases fee holders oforts basic Everydebithecardg account and will add the fee to its student checking account next spurchases
Later, a spokeswoman for the bank, Anne Pace, said in an e-mail: "We plan to implement the fee in early 2012".
