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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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Although the notice provides welcome relief from backup withholding, and some relief from having to separately ascertain when exempt interest is AMT interest, payers will still have to compile and report information on exempt interest paid for the over four months before the statute was enacted.
Information reporting for 2006 exempt interest
The physicians entered into a membership agreement (PPA) with NTSP that grants NTSP the right to receive all payer offers and imposes on the physicians a duty to promptly forward payer offers to NTSP.
Anti-trust implications of independent practice associations
The defendant drug companies' conspiracy to prevent the sale of the generic version of Cardizem CD denied consumers and third-party payers the opportunity to use a significantly less costly generic equivalent.
Prescription for fair play: insurers and consumers are using litigation to recover overcharges from pharmaceutical firms that illegally keep generics off the market
Single payer is not a panacea; it does not solve all the ills of our system," says Dr.
With Liberty and health care for all: with 44 million uninsured and just about everybody else unhappy with annual cost hikes and HMO runarounds, it's fair to wonder if Americans are getting their money's worth from the world's costliest health care system
Do you presently have business agreements with the payers that I use?
THE HIPAA quiz: questions you should ask your vendors about compliance
Where the Canadian payer can demonstrate that an affiliated non-resident service provider will incur no net Canadian tax liability as a result of the transaction, no withholding should be required.
Withholding under Regulation 105: May 30, 2002
The fact is, physicians are themselves increasingly terrified of having their lives turned upside down by making private insurers even more important than they are now--which will result from anything less than a single payer plan.
The bottom line on health reform
The management staff must gain a clear understanding of the payer market's specific need for cost-effective alternatives to hospitalization and of the competitive pricing pressures of a changing health care environment.
Criteria for nursing home-based infusion therapy
Before turning to our specific concerns about the corporate information reporting proposal, TEI wants to acknowledge the Subcommittee's willingness to work with taxpayers to develop alternatives by which taxpayers' legitimate concerns can be assuaged, payer and payee burdens can be minimized, and the IRS's compliance objectives can be furthered.
Corporate information reporting proposals and other initiatives to improve the administration and enforcement of employment taxes
Consider one story from a medical practice where a major payer with claims offices in five cities each reimbursed a different amount for the same CPT code even though the contract with that provider is for only one amount.
Critical technology for a medical practice: how to stop money from falling through the cracks

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