The other possible type of underwriter violation involves a practice known as laddering.
The first of those areas involves a practice known as upcoding, in which hospitals receive larger payments from Medicare by inflating the seriousness of illnesses they treat.
In particular, many of the recent lawsuits involve a practice known as "service overtime," in which workers were silently pressured into logging long hours of unpaid overtime as a display of loyalty, say labor experts.
Government officials and the leaders of the French medical establishment have made clear that the church has no business interfering in matters of state, especially when they involve a practice that is legal.
But the more common expression of disapproval, within the New York Police Department, involves a practice known as "keying the microphone," or "stepping on someone" — essentially tying up the channel by repeatedly pressing the talk button.
Apophatic preparation involves a practice of "emptying" out of other conscious content in order to "make room" for the apprehension of God, who is beyond our discursive, sensual natures (see Keating, 1996, Chapter 4).
Many of the abuses appear to involve a practice known as "upcoding," in which health care providers use codes with higher levels of reimbursement than is appropriate for the care they really provided to patients.
We conducted a pragmatic two-way factorial cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) with physicians' practices as the unit of allocation and individual patients as the unit of analysis involving a practice-level and patient-level facilitation intervention.
Training involved a seminar, practice in wearing the mandatory personal protection system (PPS), and cardiac arrest simulations with subsequent debriefing.
The Justice Department found his operations involved "a widespread pattern or practice of law enforcement and jail activities that discriminate against Latinos".
