The association said school meal programs depended on the timely delivery of their federal reimbursements to cover staff wages; reimburse school districts for utilities and custodial services; and pay local businesses, farmers and distributors who provide food, supplies and equipment.
While organisers offered reimbursements following last year's Sunday cancellation, it's not clear whether the same is true in 2014.
In genuinely competitive industries, innovators are rarely rewarded with the "cost plus" reimbursements demanded by medical-device makers for their gold-plated gizmos.That is why Stanford's Dr Yock wants to turn innovation upside down.
So Euro-MPs may go on claiming reimbursements for imaginary travel and wages for imaginary secretaries.But, on balance, the record of the outgoing parliament has been good.
Raytheon's Mr D'Angelo also thinks the reimbursements speeded up consolidation in the industry: "Without them the companies would be less efficient, they would export less and the Pentagon would pay more for its weapons".The General Accounting Office appears to agree.
Nursing homes have stable cashflows, since much of their revenues come from government reimbursements and are thus relatively immune to economic downturns.They are not without drawbacks for investors, however.
Helped by a growing economy and increasing reimbursements from the federal government, he reduced taxes 15 times and still ran a $150m surplus last year.
But Mr Douste-Blazy hopes for a sustainable reform that does not simply "raise contributions and limit reimbursements".
Microsoft has one of the largest research budgets in the world, and will continue to have even after its cash reimbursements to owners.
I'M NOT sure how the blogosphere managed to collectively miss this, but very little attention was paid to this piece last week in Slate by cardiologist Darshak Sanghavi which explained how Medicare and most private health insurers set reimbursements for different kinds of physician procedures.
But in late December, Congress went further, and very nearly enacted a mandatory 10% cut in doctors' reimbursements for Medicare patients.
