(n.) The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although designating the therapist as payee has a significant impact on the therapeutic relationship, in most cases the patient is so impaired that the benefits outweight the liabilities.
(2) Meanwhile it has also emerged that Visa has today ordered DataCell, an IT firm that helps WikiLeaks collect payments, to suspend all of its transactions – even those involving other payees – a day after it cut off all the firm's donations being made to WikiLeaks.
(3) They favor an approach whereby the institution is formally the payee and a clinician is designated to manage a patient's account.
(4) But it does mean I have some familiarity with the law, and it seems to me that Barclays owes a duty of care to people who it knows could be victims of fraud, and that duty is breached if procedures for setting up accounts are foreseeably inadequate (even if they comply with their own guidelines), and again when the bank allows payments to be made without cross-checking the name of the payee with that of the account holder.” The judge says he believes a class action against Barclays “would have at least some chance of success”.
(5) At the moment, “payers” – who are usually non-custodial parents – pay child support to the department of human services (DHS) and then the DHS pays the “payee” – usually the custodial parent.
(6) Christensen said a common problem reported in submissions occurs where a child support “payer” had court ordered custody arrangements which are breached by the “payee” moving away, leaving the payer parent unable to see their children.
(7) 1.49pm BST Lew: Social Security payees in the front line Next question: America's seniors would be in the front line if America didn't reach a deal - what would the impact be?
(8) In such cases, when the payer parent can no longer maintain their custody arrangements due to distance, the payee applies for a reassessment of the child support amount and the payer is left with a larger child support payment.
(9) A representative payee is a person or organization who receives payment as a substitute for the beneficiary.
(10) This is partly why banks have rolled out card readers to help prevent payments to new payees."
Payor
Definition:
(n.) See Payer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent court decisions since the landmark Wickline v. The State of California case in 1987 have addressed this issue of shared liability between payors and providers.
(2) Even more worrisome to these institutions is the possibility of other third-party payors following Medicare's lead and converting to this reimbursement plan.
(3) Such requests arise from third-party payors such as insurance companies, state workers compensation departments, and other systems of disability determination.
(4) All adult medical admissions (N = 30,097) were analyzed for a three-year period at a large academic medical center using the DRG "all payor" classification scheme in effect for New York State.
(5) Medicare patients had (on average) a longer hospital length of stay and total hospital cost compared to patients from Medicaid, Blue Cross, and other commercial payors.
(6) These differences could not be explained by differences in age level and payor status of sample populations.
(7) The criteria should undergo complete specificity and sensitivity testing, be expanded to include more outcome measures, and be applied to other geographic areas before use by other third party payors.
(8) In an attempt to control costs and increase the efficiency of health care, it is being increasingly delivered in alternate health-care systems where third-party payors influence the access, use, and quality of that care.
(9) Analysis of 858 pulmonary medicine patients by payor (Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross, and commercial insurance) in these non-CC stratified pulmonary medicine DRGs for a three-year period demonstrated that patients with more CCs per DRG for each payor generated higher total hospital costs, a longer hospital length of stay, a greater percentage of procedures per patient, financial risk under DRG payment, more outliers, and a higher mortality, compared to patients in these same DRGs with fewer CCs.
(10) Analysis of 12,340 medical patients by payor (Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross, and commercial insurance) in these non-CC-stratified medical DRGs for a three-year period demonstrated that patients with more CCs per DRG for each payor generated higher total hospital costs, a longer hospital length of stay, a greater percentage of procedures per patient, higher financial risk under DRG payment, and a higher mortality, compared with patients in these same DRGs with fewer CCs.
(11) The forces of technology and changing payor requirements continue to move many surgical procedures to the ambulatory setting.
(12) This article examines factors contributing to this reduction in autonomy and reviews potential impacts on the profession, patients, payors, health care organizations, and managers.
(13) However, present financing of GME by Medicare is linked to payment for inpatient service, and few other payors pay explicitly for education.
(14) Diagnosis serves to differentiate the "products"; however, diagnoses are grouped by payor and similar treatment cost experiences to create a limited set of managerially meaningful case types.
(15) In All Payor Systems, Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross and other commercial insurers pay by the DRG mode; the state of New York has been All Payor since 1 January 1988.
(16) Our findings were as follows: (1) With charges as a measure of expense under both payment schemes, all clinical departments had large groups of unprofitable patients: Medicare, $12,895,038; all-payor system, $15,553,893.
(17) A changing clinical environment both because of diseases such as AIDS, which were not anticipated when these clinical codes were created, and because of the changing relationship between the physician, the patient, and the payor for the physician's care creates dilemmas concerning the rule of confidentiality.
(18) Both Medicare and Medicaid patients had (on average) a longer hospital stay and total hospital cost compared with patients from Blue Cross and other commercial payors.
(19) Developing a monolithic vocabulary would require a massive effort, and its existence would not guarantee its use by third-party payors, by practicing clinicians, or by developers of electronic medical information systems.
(20) In addition, the DRG system only applies to Medicare payments; the Norwegian experience demonstrates that this system may result in significant shifting of costs onto other payors.