And there are other systems for bringing down costs, like all-payer rate setting, which allows multiple insurers to negotiate provider prices as a single unit, Frakt added.
The other would be to adopt all-payer rate setting rules aka price controls keeping the insurance market largely private, but simply pushing the prices down.
Uncompensated care reimbursement pools, common in states with former all-payer rate-setting systems, led to increased uncompensated care expenditures throughout the 1990s.
For other payers rates are not set by hospital-level negotiation, and so the relation of HHI to PCRs most likely reflects geographic correlation with causal factors rather than direct causality.
Nuclear energy has depended primarily on the financial burden being born by the tax payer and rate payer.
Expect the mobile gaming industry to be volume driven as carrier billing is rolled out and improves payer conversion rates.
Moreover, Maryland hospitals are paid based on that state's all-payer hospital rate setting system, rather than under regular DRG rules.
In a separate program, the power authority is setting up a one-time, $1 million rate-payer-advocacy fund to, in the authority's words, "assist consumer groups who represent rate payer interests within the LIPA service area".
Natalie Billingsley, a telecommunications project manager for the Rate Payer Advocates, an office of the California Public Utilities Commission, said consumers might be surprised when they get their first bill.
"It has to do with a corporate structure that has as its premise make money at the expense of the rate payer," he said of Con Ed.
