Payors

Sure self pay is an issue for us, but they make up only 5% of our payors, which is about in line with other hospitals I have worked out (not just rural ones). ❋ Unknown (2010)

When hospitals and Doctors do not get paid, they pass the dollars in bad debt (risk) onto the payors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

People in private sector are making millions while tax payors are bailing them out and we are complaining that Obama put a freeze on salaries. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Medicare makes up about 45% of our payors - of that 45% they pay 50% of THEIR charges. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. Neville and other payors expressed concern about what happens to patients who stay on Lipitor during the 180 days and can't be quickly converted afterward to the cheaper generics entering the market. ❋ Jonathan D. Rockoff (2011)

Some information is publicly available, and some comes from confidential diagnosis, procedure and prescription data gathered by Medicare and other payors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What I am saying is that of our payors, self pay makes up 5% of those payors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hospitals, especially the For-Profiteers, know which payors treat them better. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Emdeon sells software and services that manage patient information, billing, payment and other functions for payors like insurance companies and government entitlement programs; hospitals, physicians' offices, nursing homes and other health care providers; and patients. ❋ Shasha Dai (2011)

So, no matter what compensation scheme is planned (except for slavery), doctors who want to maximize their revenues while minimizing work hours can always find a way to do so that will result in suboptimal outcomes for patients and payors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This leader needs to answer to the tax payors who are his boss, after all he was elected by the people, who put trust in him and you call this a leader. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Health-care providers and payors worldwide will now have to justify the cost of using" Lucentis, wrote Philip Rosenfeld, a retina specialist at the University of Miami, in an accompanying editorial in the New England Journal. ❋ Jennifer Corbett Dooren (2011)

Now somebody can support the actual tax payors not the leeches. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The payors then increase our insuance rates to make up the difference. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So in order to make money we increase charges, this of course hurts self payors as well as insurance company payors (because the increased costs are passed on to their customers) ❋ Unknown (2010)

About half of its revenue comes from providers, with another 43% from payors. ❋ Shasha Dai (2011)

The answer is we as physicians haven't educated ourselves or third-party payors to the contrary. ❋ Unknown (2010)