Medicare Advantage Reforms: Comparing House and Senate Bills [PDF]
, 2009 Compares House and Senate approaches to reforming the Medicare Advantage payment system to reduce costs. Discusses geographic unit of payment, risk adjustments, quality management bonuses, and beneficiary protections and enrollment ...
Brian Biles, Grace Arnold
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Choosing and using payment instruments: evidence from German microdata [PDF]
Germans are still very fond of using cash. Of all direct payment transactions, cash accounts for an astounding 82% in terms of number, and for 58% in terms of value.
Schmidt, Tobias +2 more
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Security of payment in Malaysian construction industry: issues on sub-contract's direct payment [PDF]
In Malaysia, sub-contractors have to bear with the current structure of payment mechanisms in the standard forms of contract, which are payment upon certification, direct payment from the employer, and contingent or conditional payment.
Adnan, Hamimah, Supardi, Azizan
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Payments Settlement under Limited Enforcement: Private versus Public Systems [PDF]
What are the benefits provided by a payment system? What are the tradeoffs in public versus private payment systems and in restricted versus open payments arrangements?
Charles M. Kahn, William Roberds
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Retail Payment Systems: What can we Learn from Two-Sided Markets? [PDF]
Some retail payment systems can be modelled as two-sided markets, where a payment system facilitates money exchanges between consumers on one side and merchants on the other.
Verdier, Marianne
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Efficiency and costs of payments: some new evidence from Finland [PDF]
This paper deals with optimal payment systems. The issue boils down to how large are the costs of different payment media, which can be interpreted as a question of the efficiency of the means of payment.
Takala, Kari, Viren, Matti
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The adequacy of Malaysian security of payment legislation for sub-contractors in construction industry [PDF]
In Malaysia, the particularly small sized subcontractors are definitely benefited from payment provisions in the proposed Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (CIPA Act).
Adnan, Hamimah +2 more
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Security of payment regime in construction industry: are Malaysian sub-contractors ready? [PDF]
In Malaysia, the particularly small sized sub-contractors are definitely benefited from payment provisions in the proposed Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (CIPA Act), but need to enhance their knowledge in order to improve their ...
Adnan, Hamimah +2 more
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An Analysis of the Mobile Payment Problem in Europe [PDF]
Mobile payment is crucial for, but not limited to mobile commerce. But a role as an established payment system still seems to be a distant prospect for it.
Pousttchi, Key
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Legislative responses to data breaches and information security failures [PDF]
On July 23, 2008, the Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia hosted a workshop to discuss federal and state legislative responses to data breaches.
Philip Keitel
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