Quotes About Reimbursement

I didn't get paid to go to Kansas State.

there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

When I was playing, all my overseas trips were paid for by the LTA, then by my coach, and from whatever prize-money I made I would have to pay back as much as I could of the fare. Only once that was paid could I keep the extra, and that was a powerful incentive.

It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.

I have never been reimbursed at the federal level. Never want to be in a million years. To me, it's just not worth the red flag.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.

We're not thieves. We're repatriating

On average, Medicare only reimburses hospitals 87 cents for every dollar spent.37 How do hospitals stay in business? By charging people with private health insurance significantly more for health care services to make up the difference.

Reimbursement has become the primary mechanism through which the regulation of doctors occurs in the United States.2 To the extent that doctors cannot afford to do things they are not paid to do, and will gladly do more of those things they are paid handsomely to do, the decisions about whether, when, and how much to pay doctors for the various things they do has unwittingly become one of the most pervasive and powerful regulatory mechanisms ever devised.

What makes the encumbrance of reimbursement even more distortive and binding is that most prices insurers pay are not set by market forces. Rather, they are administered prices that reek of the pricing algorithms and backroom negotiations used in communist systems. Those

Rather, in our distorted fee-for-service world, the work to coordinate and oversee care just isn't as profitable as other activities.

But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

When people want to be reimbursed for their pain they seldom are.

We have an unprecedented number of primary care doctors who are opting out of Medicare.

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

More doctors are being forced to close their practices or not to take insurance due to fear of persecution," says Caryn Jaffe of Columbia, Maryland.

"You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink."

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.

Masturbation is pleasure without cost. So how might you make people pay?

There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.