Especially in fee-for-service, these costs can be substantial because time and effort put in improving performance cannot be used to treat patients and to perform tests.
As now structured, Medicare pays specialists extravagant fees to perform tests and procedures, which drives up costs.
Arvin plans to perform tests on the child to make sure it is free of all physical and mental problems.
Specimens were made to perform tests under flatwise tension and shear loadings.
For such steel, the need to perform tests in-situ under hydrogen pressure is required.
The owners of the gas station were ordered to remove a pile of contaminated soil and to perform tests to see if wells had been contaminated.
When an individual – any individual – is primed to think about his money troubles, his ability to perform tests and tasks is measurably reduced.
The doctor said he had also urged his Mexican colleagues to perform tests to determine whether some people without symptoms still carried the virus.
The fundamental problem is that our health care system provides a tremendous financial incentive to perform tests and procedures, not to "do the right thing".
Both businesses and government agencies -- including the highway safety administration -- will pay $1,000 per hour to the university to perform tests with the simulator.
GraphPad Prism 5, 6 and 7 (GraphPad Software) were used to generate graphs and to perform tests for distribution and statistical significance.
