If the" refusenik" movement succeeds, it will become impossible to separate the" can't payers" from the" can-but-won't payers".
In most states, payers in both federal and private sectors can deny payment for required emergency screening and treatment without fear of reprisal.
Since risk is already shared predominantly among patients and providers, the payers have made themselves increasingly dispensable.
Relief is paid at the tax-payer's top marginal rate of income tax, provided the investment is bed for five years.
In theory, private payers stand to benefit from increasing competition among hospitals, which can enhance payers' market power in rate negotiations with hospitals.
However, if the therapeutic advance is more modest, consumers and third-party payers would put off purchasing and wait for marginal cost pricing.
Quality assurance must be an integral part of contracts between providers and payers.
Physicians and payers may value diagnostic information from their own perspectives, and their desires may or may not be consistent with patients' desires.
