Price or tariff lists for services provided by other professionals were not available, and their unit costs were assumed identical to physiotherapy cost, except for the cost of visits to or by nurses were information on nurses' salaries, typical health-sector overhead costs and duration of visits were used.
Recommendations to mitigate impact of potential increase in electricity prices suggested in the report include lower tariffs for service providers in the public sector and tailored subsidies for vulnerable families.
The platform for health is more abstract (and malleable, perhaps): a set of commissioners using the flawed currency of the national tariff for health services, and the even more flawed national outcomes frameworks.
Paying a higher tariff for a service that is clearly cheaper, or giving an additional sum of money when a specific target is reached, is seen as an incentive.
Now, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has ruled in favour of the critics, saying in a statement: "No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content".
The ITU notes that tariffs for mobile services continue to fall — in the LDCs of the world, prices are now at 14% of gross national income per capital versus 29% in 2008, with mobile broadband seeing the biggest drops.
One consequence was that health facilities at the district level lost 4 15% of user fee revenue and coped by "increasing tariffs for others services" [ 19] and looking for other alternatives.
A tariff for mental health services was a priority then.
The lack of fee-for-service tariffs was partly responsible for the failure of a wind electric installation for potable water pumping.
Local management committees must be in charge of the supervision, operation and maintenance of installed systems as well as revenue collection based on fee-for-service tariffs.
