There's no indication anyone gave serious consideration to stopping the payments — only to finding a new way to make them.
Vast amounts of time are taken up with chasing late payments from clients and customers, negotiating more favourable terms for their own payments and finding cash to alleviate the pressure during quieter months.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Monday that it was cutting payments to doctors and hospitals after finding that cost overruns are threatening to use up the money available in a health insurance program for people with cancer, heart disease and other serious illnesses.
Agencies also became more careful about finding loopholes to allow payments to the mothers, even though the law expressly says the surrogacy arrangement should be altruistic.
This means they are missing out on a huge range of benefits including taking payments online, finding the best deals on suppliers, and particularly importantly, being visible to a much wider audience.
Mobile payments are finding adoption on the campaign trail and offering more diverse functionality.
An M.B.A. student at Ohio State University speaks with dignified eloquence of her surprise — and shame — at falling behind on her mortgage payments and finding herself in foreclosure.
Technologies that transform a cellphone into a simple device for making payments are finding their way into the marketplace in Europe and Asia, and soon will be seen as a convenient banking tool here.
Few details were available about the nature of the alleged fraud, but the Daily Mail reported that it concerned claims that the company took payments for finding jobs for people that lasted only one day.
The Administration hopes providers will cope with lower payments by finding new efficiencies; but they may instead simply accept lower profit margins, though over time that could drive providers out of the market, reducing supply; or they may negotiate lower input costs.
