Waiving payments for indigent patients or to placate those who have complaints about their treatment "should not pose legal issues," however, they said.
The study says that Greece's debt burden can be made more bearable by waiving payments until the economy has recovered and then giving Athens longer to pay.
Vangelis himself, like in 1993, waived payment for his performance.
If an author is unable to afford the APC, the Editor-in-Chief will be able to waive payment, if deemed necessary.
The Bamako Initiative also made provision for a system that waived payment for patients who were too poor to pay for their treatment, however this system has never really been implemented (with regard to Burkina Faso, cf. [ 3]; for other countries in the region, see [ 4]).
The World Bank said Thursday that it would waive payments on Haiti's debt for the next five years, and the International Monetary Fund proposed an interest-free loan of $100 million.
The company also scrambled to accommodate customers by opening its offices on the weekends, providing emergency funds and travel services, and waiving late payment fees because of postal delays.
While most doctors still work within managed care networks, waiving patients' payments appears to be most prevalent in the Northeast, South Florida, the West Coast and the upper Midwest -- "areas that are saturated with managed care," Dr. Fleming said.
Doctors are waiving coinsurance payments for several reasons, analysts say: to recruit patients who would otherwise go to doctors on a health plan's preferred list; to help people struggling with the cost of care, and to reduce their own costs for processing insurance paperwork and dunning patients who are slow to pay.
In an effort to cash in on the significant savings -- some estimates place the number at $33 billion -- insurers are prepared to go the extra mile, offering incentives to patients who make the journey, ranging from waiving co-payments and deductibles to booking all the travel.
