The phrase "rate formula" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a mathematical formula used to calculate a rate or interest rate. For example: "The rate formula used by the bank to calculate mortgage rates is very complex."
When first enacted in 1997, the "sustainable growth rate" formula looked liked a reasonable way to restrain Medicare spending.
In 1997, Congress enacted the "sustainable growth rate" formula, which sets annual limits on how much Medicare can pay doctors in the aggregate.
The House-passed bill offers a rare breakthrough by repealing the "sustainable growth rate" formula for Medicare reimbursements with incremental 0.5% pay increases for doctors each year through 2019.
The S.G.R., or the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, was enacted as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to restrain the inevitable increase in Medicare's annual spending on physician services.
One big advantage of our proposal is consistency: the confusion over differing rates on Stafford loans and unsubsidized federal PLUS loans would end, since one rate formula would be used for all federal education loans.
The rate formula helps determine a number of market issues, including which companies will enjoy greater profits, whether smaller local companies are able to survive and effectively compete, and the extent to which the larger companies are willing to make capital investments.
Those variable rate formulas would yield interest rates of 2.4% on the Stafford loan and 3.2% on the PLUS loan if they were still in effect today.
It says the power to set rate formulas and reimbursement policies should be removed from the Legislature and given to the Medicaid director in the State Health Department.
The council listed a host of weak spots in the system: rate formulas that encouraged utilities to upgrade transmission but that did not reflect risks in the new markets; companies making money from pushing the limits of the reliability rules; and "reliability responsibilities" being divided among many entities because the integrated utilities had been broken up.
The fuel regression rate formulas of different fuel components are fitted according to the experiment data.
The predictions from the resulting closed form spread rate formulas, which retain the functional form of the de Ris formula, are shown to compare well with computational and experimental results, including all previously published data in the thermal regime.
