Suchergebnisse

Foreword : fee schedule payment systems -- Introduction to fee schedule payment systems -- Healthcare provider concepts -- Anatomy of a fee schedule payment system -- Medicare physician fee schedule -- Other medicare fee schedule payment systems -- Private third-party payer fee schedule systems.

The rapid development of new electronic systems of payment, or e‐money, offers society many potential benefits even as it poses new types of risk for system operators. The risks to which e‐money is most subject–operational, fraud, and legal risk–pose new challenges to payment system risk control. A review of instances of failures in similar systems suggests some useful lessons for the successful development of e‐money. (JEL E42, G2)

This article is the second in the series detailing recent and
continuing research into Payment Systems. The previous article dealt
with some of the main features found to be important in scheme success,
whilst this one, "Participation in Payment System Design",
shows how the research results can be translated into practice. The
procedure outlined here is one that has been recently applied to a
number of organisations with uniform success.