Sentence examples for restrict payments from inspiring English sources

"Physicians are squeezed between rising costs and decreasing reimbursement," and they "see only declining revenue in the future," as Medicare and private insurers restrict payments, the American Medical Association said.

[C11.] Adelphia Creditors Fight Payments Lawyers for bondholders and other creditors of Adelphia Communications have asked a bankruptcy court to restrict payments of $300 million intended for Adelphia's banks.

Ms. Kroes could force the banks to do many things: sell billions of euros of assets, close branches, cut their balance sheets drastically, restrict payments to investors, executives and staff, and focus more narrowly on retail banking.

Instead, while Judge Wilken agreed that the rules were illegal, she found that an alternative, in which the N.C.A.A. continued to restrict payments unless they were tied to education, was acceptable.

Legal rules severely restrict payments to fact witnesses, though the government can often offer plea bargains or other nonmonetary inducements to encourage testimony.

Changes to the Housing Benefit which restrict payments to allow for one bedroom per person or per couple, and is dubbed the "bedroom tax" by its critics.

As for the upper endoscopy, the Medicare formula covered only half the median price; it was halved again, Empire said, to $220 of the $1,860 bill, under new rules that restrict payment when two procedures are done at the same time, to prevent overbilling for patients prepared and sedated only once.

Restricted payments clearly imply that when we receive money it is not ours but theirs, and is shared only on sufferance and condition.

Among these are paying out claims fully, instead of retaining part of the money until all claims are settled, and paying out claims to heirs related by marriage, instead of restricting payments to blood relatives.

Nursing homes, which tend to rely heavily on Medicare and Medicaid dollars, are facing enormous financial pressure -- Mr. Obama's proposed budget includes a $56 billion Medicare cut over 10 years achieved by restricting payments to nursing homes and other long-term care providers.

Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York have restricted payments for avoidable medical errors.