EBay angered many longtime sellers in recent years by restricting payment options, changing seller feedback procedures and promoting fixed-price items over its original auction-style listings.
In 2006, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (C.M.S) began restricting payment for bariatric surgery to so-called centers of excellence.
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.
[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.
Restricted payments clearly imply that when we receive money it is not ours but theirs, and is shared only on sufferance and condition.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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 I understand it, the change has been made to help mitigate risk on payments out to those countries and help build out the credibility of the platform — rather than as a move to restrict payments via third parties, or in response to reported problems, or as a precursor to any moves for Facebook to launch its own payout service.
