Sentence examples for payment design from inspiring English sources

"You're trying to overlay a payment design onto a benefit model that allows a patient to go anywhere he wants," said Steve Hamman of Blue Cross Blue Shield, noting that patients can undermine the advantages of the new approach if they ignore the advice or insist on unnecessary tests and procedures.

The payment design framework developed by the Nicholas Institute and partner organizations reflects the understanding that a one-size-fits-all model won't work.

Yet, there are payment design formulas that respect autonomy of care, while simultaneously encouraging appropriateness of care whenever possible [ 33].

With the singular exception of the equity-oriented 'disproportionate share' incentives in the US Medicare prospective payment design [ 2], in early formula funding implementations policy instruments to achieve "adjunct" policy goals of access and quality were regulatory (or hierarchical) in nature.

Thresholds could limit access to a particular incentive (payment quantum) or achieving the threshold could be a condition precedent for accessing another incentive system (such as additional payment for additional activity, an approach used in the initial Victorian payment design [ 15]).

Similarly, the falls in incapacity benefit are balanced by rises in the payment designed to replace it, employment support allowance.

It was 2011 when universal credit was first launched, replacing a suite of legacy benefits with one monthly payment designed to "make work pay".

870, 87 L.Ed. 1292 (1943), tend to suggest that even a minimal payment designed solely to cover administrative costs may be impermissible in a First Amendment context.

DLA, which pays out a maximum of £130 a week, is a welfare payment designed to help people look after themselves and aimed at those who find it difficult to walk or get around.

The next day, they met for smoothies in Palo Alto and came up with the idea that became PayPal: a system of electronic payment designed to make e-commerce easy, consistent, and secure.

On top of that, there is also a mandatory four-year "parachute payment" designed to soften the shock for teams, like Wolverhampton, that plummet out of the Premier League into the far less lucrative second tier.