Quebec considers extra billing

Dr. Billing

CMS considers expanding reimbursement for carotid stenting.

On January 25, 2012, Medicare (CMS) held a meeting to consider issues related to the current management of carotid arterial disease. One of the most important of these issues is whether or not Medicare should expand reimbursement for carotid artery stenting (CAS) to include patients with asymptomatic and low or standard surgical risk symptomatic carotid stenosis. Opinions vary widely regarding ...

Internet Billing in Practice

FinGrid Accounting and Billing

For a commercial entity to entrust the Grid for its business operations either as a consumer or a provider of resources, mechanisms that would guarantee its interests need to be implemented. Especially resource usage tracking and billing. In this paper, we present our experience with designing and building an autonomic accounting and billing system for the Financial Grid (FinGrid). We used a se...

Undeniable Mobile Billing Schemes

An undeniable mobile billing system allows a mobile network service provider to bill its subscribers with trustworthy evidences. Chen, Jan and Chen proposed such a billing system by introducing a trusted third party – Observer and exploiting a hash chain mechanism. In their system, the Observer provides call time evidence to both cellular carriers and subscribers for billing. In this paper, we ...