(n.) One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(2) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
(3) Indeed, the BBC’s own recent Digital Media Initiative was closed by Tony Hall, having lost £100m.” The document is entitled “BBC3: An Alternative Strategy – Realising Value for the Licence Payer”.
(4) "Hints that the license fee payer will be hit are the closest the Tories come to explaining how they intend to pay for this."
(5) Meanwhile, we need to show that the recent changes to how we work with the BBC Executive are allowing us to be more focused, more rigorous and more transparent in the work that we do, so that licence fee payers can get a better BBC.
(6) Speaking before details about Thompson's evidence to the committee had been made public, Hodge said she had seen evidence of "total chaos" at an organisation more concerned with its public image than licence fee payers' money.
(7) Economic pressures, technology, and third-party payers are contributing to this trend.
(8) The chancellor failed to cut pension contribution tax relief on pensions for higher-rate tax payers – a move that was widely speculated before the budget.
(9) Such estimates are difficult to obtain because most cost data for nursing homes are available from Medicare or Medicaid cost reports, which provide only average values per patient-day across all patients (or all of a particular payer's patients).
(10) Miliband says he does not want union levy payers disenfranchised from the Labour party elections, but is happy to look at how the relationship could be reformed.
(11) He's said that the government will abolish child benefit for all higher-rate tax payers from 2013.
(12) The BBC has spent more than £5m of licence fee payers' money so far on internal investigations and inquiries relating to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
(13) She suggests that the doctrine of 'bad faith breach of contract' might appropriately be extended into this new area to provide a powerful means by which aggrieved patients and payers can hold physicians personally accountable for abusive self-referrals.
(14) Consumers, payers, and policymakers are demanding to know more about the quality of the services they are purchasing or might purchase.
(15) The BBC Trust said it "would be unacceptable for licence-fee payers to pick up a bill for what is a universal benefit".
(16) Although it is difficult to identify any single policymaker in the United States who can alter the aggregate effect of the millions (or billions) of individual clinical decisions, there are many potential users of policy models: payers, providers, state and local health departments, the National Institutes of Health, professional organizations, hospitals and producers of medical devices, among others.
(17) Paul use fewer hospital resources relative to conventional payers?
(18) Areas of greatest stress focus on time pressures and realities of medical practice, i.e., being reimbursed by third-party payers and meeting the need for certainty when medical knowledge only allows for approximation.
(19) Implementation of the system is discussed in relation to the calculation of fees; comparisons with alternate charging methods; approval of special clinical service charges; computer billing; information about pharmacy charges for patients; and third-party payers.
(20) Overnight, banking debt in six Irish banks (including the four bailed out on Thursday) was converted into state debt, payable by tax-payers.
Remitter
Definition:
(n.) One who remits.
(n.) One who pardons.
(n.) One who makes remittance.
(n.) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Complete remissions were relatively short, and 11 of 14 remitters relapsed after 2 to 11 months (median 4 months).
(2) In the postoperative period, he was complicated by remittent fever of 1 month's duration, which was finally controlled by antibiotics.
(3) With global remittances tripling over the past decade and now outstripping official aid, diaspora groups and international NGOs urgently need to find ways of working together more effectively.
(4) High levels of IC in CSF were detected only in the subgroup consisting of the relapsing-remittent patients in disease exacerbation when IC were determined by the C1q-binding test.
(5) More meetings between government officials, banks, remittance companies and NGOs are planned over the coming weeks.
(6) Hormone therapy is indicated in acute forms of disseminated sclerosis and in a remittent development in the stage of exacerbation in the II and III phases.
(7) As the locus of many migrants' investments, the village of Los Pinos has experienced a modest growth in the number of full-time jobs paying somewhat above the minimum urban wage and in a variety of petty entrepreneurial activities depending heavily on the patronage of migrant households, themselves heavily subsidized by remittances.
(8) Their history was not suggestive of a cyclic or remittent pattern of symptoms.
(9) Nearly a third had a remittent (32.8%) or relapsing cumulative (34%) course and 9% had a progressive course from the start.
(10) Remittances by African migrants provide many benefits to African households and governments.
(11) So we also need to be thinking internationally.” He said that included marshalling “everything the private sector has to give”, including overseas remittances by migrant workers, which the World Bank estimates reached $436bn in 2014 , and supporting plans by the Brics countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to launch a development bank to finance infrastructure projects.
(12) One patient had suffered from severe postpartal hyperbilirubinemia, the other one presented with chronic hemolysis and remittent hyperbilirubinemia.
(13) As gold compounds are effective in treating spontaneous RA in dogs, these proposed actions may not be responsible for the remittive effects of chrysotherapy in this disease.
(14) These unchanging features were not found among the remitters.
(15) High rates of diffuse remittance were found for classical laser wavelengths such as the argon or the Nd:YAG II laser indicating only low rates of absorption.
(16) The government said it was committed to supporting a healthy and legitimate remittance sector while also ensuring a robust anti-money laundering regime.
(17) A drying up of remittance money to Somalia is the last thing the British government needs as it has invested much political effort in putting the country back on its feet.
(18) The opposition had warned, with each stage of the “normalization” – the release on both sides of political prisoners; a deal to allow telecom companies to strengthen the internet on the island and for US banks to do business there; a US agreement to expand remittances and ease travel restrictions – that too many opponents of the Castro regime remain in prisons, or remain sentenced to silence under threat of retribution.
(19) Remittance by mail of blood samples and subsequent time of permanency in mail boxes are not supposed to be best thermic conditions for dried blood samples in paper used for neonatal screening.
(20) Patients with TdT-positive AML had similar median survival (12 versus 10.5 months) and complete remission (CR) rates (53 versus 59%), but a greater frequency of long-term complete responders (60 of complete remitters versus 20%, p = 0.08) than TdT-negative patients.