PAYMENT OF MEDICAL FEES BY LIFE-ASSURANCE COMPANIES.

Fees for Medical Reports for Life Assurance

To the Editor op the "Indian Medical Gazette." Dear Sir,? I send for perusal, .and publication, if you think fit, a copy of some correspondence which has taken place between the Manager of the Oriental Life Assurance Company of Bombay and myself, regarding the amount of the fee paid by that company for a medical report on an applicant for assurance. You will notice that the Manager considers th...

Medical ethics and the payment of fees before treatment.

Whether it is ethically acceptable for doctors to require payment of fees before treatment depends on interpretation of the ethical rules of the profession, the circumstances of the doctor-patient relationship, the urgency of the patient's need for treatment, and whether refusal to treat before payment represents abandonment of a patient.

Payment by Results Data Assurance Framework

Payment card interchange fees and price discrimination∗

We consider the implications of platform price discrimination in the context of card platforms. Despite the platform’s ability to price discriminate, we show it will set fees for card usage that are too low, resulting in excessive usage of cards. We show this bias remains even if card fees (or rewards) can be conditioned on each type of retailer that the cardholder transact with. We use our mod...

Demands of Medical Fees from Medical Men