PAYING THE PIPER (IN ABSENTIA) SFF Association v Xstrata 2011 JDR 0407 (GSJ)

Will paying the piper change the tune?

Most provincial governments are considering or introducing changes to hospital funding. Ten years of rapidly increasing expenditures have left them still facing complaints of waiting lists and waiting times. Activity-based funding (ABF) would supplement traditional negotiated global budgets, reimbursing a predetermined amount for each case treated - essentially, a "fee schedule" - thus providin...

Rats, Global Poverty, and Paying the Piper

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Rural physicians practising emergency medicine: paying the piper.

When an emergency department (ED) physician at a rural hospital attends a patient with an acute myocardial infarction, that physician also plays the part of the technician who obtains an ECG tracing, the second nurse (who sets up the intravenous thrombolytics), the respiratory therapist who draws the gases (if the test is even available), and the internist who would have been the admitting phys...

Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa.

We analyze funeral arrangements following the deaths of 3,751 people who died between January 2003 and December 2005 in the Africa Centre Demographic Surveillance Area. We find that, on average, households spend the equivalent of a year's income for an adult's funeral, measured at median per capita African (Black) income. Approximately one-quarter of all individuals had some form of insurance, ...

Paying the piper, calling the tune: implications of changes in reimbursement.