And while one (ahem… single payor) is almost surely the stuff of nightmares, the announcement of a new chief operating officer is making the venture increasingly real.
The incremental costs of adult posttransplantation liver transplantation complications and who pays for these complications (center or payor) is unknown.
We excluded those patients with MSP because they have incomplete ESA data since their primary (usually private) payor is likely to get billed for ESA therapy.
Conversely, insurance information provided in the discharge summary (from which the numerator was calculated) may be inaccurate if information about eventual payor was added at a later point.
Children whose payor was managed care were coded as "emergent" 58% of the time, followed by other types of commercial insurance and Medicaid (41% each) and uninsured children (36%).
Differences in total charge per patient by race and primary payor were evaluated by a Kruskal-Wallis test.
In order to address these issues, collaboration between providers and payors is needed.
The offenses also differ in whether the payor may be prosecuted in addition to the public official.
The economic fear prong of the Hobbs Act may be used to prosecute political corruption, as long as there is an affirmative act of inducement; but only the payees (bribe-takers), and not the payors may be reached (the latter have a defense of duress).
The payments must meet other tests; they cannot be made while the payor and payee are part of the same household, and must be restricted in duration, not extending beyond the payee's death.
