Based on data from the 2004 National Physician Survey, physicians whose primary payment method was fee-for-service saw more patients per week than physicians remunerated by other methods, including salary or blended payments. This result did not change when examined according to specialty or specialty grouping (Table 1), physician age (Table 2) Family physicians versus specialists, type of prac...

Financial institutions in Australia fall broadly into two categories: intermediaries, comprising banks, building societies, finance companies and others which borrow and lend money (many also provide payment services), and insurers and funds managers, which pool risks and/or invest funds on behalf of others. The share of financial system assets controlled by intermediaries has fallen over the p...

Beigel, Reingold and Spielman 2] showed that PP is closed under intersection and a variety of special cases of polynomial-time truth-table closure. We extend the techniques in 2] to show PP is closed under general polynomial-time truth-table reductions. We also show that PP is closed under constant-round truth-table reductions.

Success in online services cannot promise the success in corresponding mobile services. To understand the mobile service adoption behavior under the context of online service transition, this study, taking mobile payment as an example, from a trust transfer perspective, examines users’ acceptance of mobile payment using the TAM (Technology acceptance model). A field survey with 220 mobile payme...

The primary legislative response to diminishing private plan participation in the Medicare+Choice (M+C) program since 1999 has been substantial payment increases. Analysis of M+C decisions to continue serving or drop counties from 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 reveals that payment amounts, although important, did not have a consistent impact on these decisions. Plan decisions varied depending on the ...

Payment to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans was fundamentally altered in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). MA plans now operate under a new formula for county-level payment area benchmarks, and in 2012 began receiving quality-based bonus payments. The Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Payment Demonstration expanded the bonus payments to most MA plans through 2014; howeve...

This paper reports a study that evaluated a methodology and tool for eliciting the emotional experience of language learning. It has looked at the relative rate of change of different emotions over the course of a lesson and also the differences between self-report and observer reports of changes in emotion. Implications for the design of affectively intelligent systems are discussed.

Many e-commerce transactions via e-payment systems is carried out. The aim of this study is that the theory of structures, an empirical analysis about the importance and ranking key factors that may be on customer satisfaction in electronic payment systems affect the Iranian banks.9 specific topics of the factors in e-payment systems, customer satisfaction and affect are more key, were selected...