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payor

, payer (pā'ŏr, -ĕr)

The person paying the bill, satisfying the claim, or settling a financial obligation.

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Health Solutions Plus is a provider of mature core administration software solutions for healthcare payers. The HSP Payer Suite provides the innovation, flexibility and automation needed to support multiple lines of business while increasing operational efficiencies.

Conduent Closes Acquisition of Health Solutions Plus to Enhance Core Portfolio

Through its purchase of HSP, Florham Park-based Conduent said it has bolstered its offerings with the Core Administration Processing System solution, which connects administrative functions for health care funding organizations, such as payers, managed care organizations, state Medicaid agencies and Medicare Advantage payers.

Conduent completes HSP acquisition

Under Maryland's All-Payer Model contract with the federal government, public payers have paid 6 percent less than other payers since the state's all-payer waiver was negotiated in the 1970s.

Md. board considers charging private insurers more for uncompensated health care

Single-payer advocates and health-care experts say Sanders' proposal, with the support of a third of the Senate's Democratic caucus, should inject new momentum for single payer in California, with its ostensibly friendlier two-thirds Democratic majority.

Sanders' Single-Payer Proposal May Impact 'Healthy California Act'

As an in-network provider, a treatment center would be listed in the payer's online provider directory, which can bring in a flow of new patients who are members of the plan.

The pros and cons of in-network status: understand your service costs before considering the potential of that payer contract

Over the years, outsourcing of services in the healthcare payer arena has witnessed increasing popularity and players are adopting the trend to ensure and provide better and speedy services to the customers.

New Market Research Report: Healthcare Payer Services Market - Analysis and Global Forecast to 2020

* For payments made after the divorce or legal separation is final (the couple is no longer married for tax purposes), the payer and payee cannot be members of the same household at the time the payment is made;

U.S. tax implications of alimony payments to U.S. nonresidents

Officials at the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) talk about problems with monitoring employers' "third-party payers" in a report recently published on the TIGTA website.

Watchdogs: IRS has problems with employers' tax withholders

Tax Payer Resolve has begun working with Prospect Genius, a leader in local online advertising, to boost its Web site's visibility and accessibility.

Tax Relief Company Serving Greenville, SC, Targets Local Taxpayers with Help From Web Marketing Firm

They most commonly begin by examining the intention of the worker and the payer.

Independent contractor or employee

We evaluated if payer mix and physician reimbursement by encounter changed between 2013 and 2014 in an academic hospitalist practice in a Medicaid expansion state.

Changes in payer mix and physician reimbursement after the affordable care act and medicaid expansion

Payer Insights: Hepatitis C, based on in-depth interviews with 12 leading healthcare payers in the US, is packed with hard-hitting, candid opinions and advice on how, from their perspective, Pharma can get it right in the future.