And then she had to make several phone calls to her insurance company to argue over payment for a new screening tool called computer-assisted diagnosis, in which a computer looks for abnormalities on a breast X-ray.
There are also to be league tables for prisons, and particularly intriguingly, 'other tools like payment for performance.' Performance related pay for prison bosses based on reoffending rates is certainly pioneering, and a giant leap towards the logical end point of simply paying prisoners not to re-offend.
Ecosystem service1 concept has been widely incorporated in socio-economic decision-making through increasing innovative market-based conservation tools including Payment for Ecosystem Service PESschemesmeschemes
Some event organizers have begun using mobile payment tools for on-site registrations, streamlining a process that one conference planner said used to keep her awake at night.
"Nearly two-thirds of the leads we get every month are from international companies that are desperately looking for better payment tools," he says.
There is a growing confidence in Payment for Performance (P4P) as a tool to address these problems [ 2], both among donor- and recipient countries.
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The study provides health policy administrators with a new and feasible tool to implement prospective payment for EDs, and improve planning and cost control.
Other tools act through financial incentives: doctor payment for performance or by salary instead of fee-for-service payment [ 11, 12], as well as the possibility for insurers to choose which doctors to reimburse (selective contracting) [ 13].
Direct payments for the protection of biodiversity (a type of payment for environmental services) have been proposed as an effective tool for delivering conservation outcomes, in a way that also delivers development benefits to local people.
