How to Use payer in a Sentence
payer
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But as the price tag has risen, the state has become the primary payer.
— Hartford Courant, 26 May 2022 -
And in this grant, a lot of federal grants need to be the payer of last resort.
— Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 9 Mar. 2021 -
And yet Democrats couldn’t pass single-payer health care.
— Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2022 -
Enrollment is the process of adding providers to a payer's network.
— Tammy Hawes, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023 -
Some see it as a backdoor to a single-payer plan over time.
— Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 6 Feb. 2020 -
The joke will be on the county of Los Angeles and its tax payers if the project goes forward.
— Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019 -
The owners usually set the deal so all the revenue goes to the owner and all the expenses go to the tax payers.
— Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 29 July 2023 -
In 2011, the Times notes, Shumlin made Vermont the first state in the nation to approve single-payer health care.
— Will Swaim, National Review, 7 Mar. 2022 -
Each of the owners was compensated with tax-payer funds for the loss of the animals.
— Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022 -
And that's what gives the drug now the opportunity to be paid for by the payers, and to be more available to patients.
— Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2023 -
In many ways, his plan still falls far short of single-payer options.
— Max Nisen, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2019 -
Often, the malls are among the largest — if not the largest — payer of local property taxes.
— Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2024 -
This is the wrong footing for proponents of any kind of single-payer health care plan.
— Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2019 -
His own state of Vermont so far does not have a single-payer program.
— Sydney Ember, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019 -
The Palm Beach County jail is already quite full, with tax payers bearing the burden.
— Alex Freeman, Sun Sentinel, 23 July 2024 -
On the flip side, Biden won 42% of voters who oppose a single-payer system.
— Gary Langer, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2020 -
That won't result in a rate increase for tax payers: the initial bonds used to build the library will be replaced by these new ones.
— Kaitlin Lange, Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2019 -
He and Ms Harris tussled at the start over the wisdom of Medicare for All, as the idea of a single-payer health-care system is known.
— I.k. | Washington, The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019 -
The group of stocks is rebalanced at the end of each year to maintain an investment in the top 10 dividend payers.
— Charley Grant, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2024 -
The school board should represent the tax payers, as well as support our students and our teachers.
— Pioneer Press Elections Team, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2019 -
Achiuwa has yet to sign with a team and can return to the Knicks for at most the $5.2 million tax payer’s mid-level exception.
— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024 -
But some states still might require tax payers to file by different dates.
— Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2020 -
But there are good reasons for both Congress and payers to be skeptical, at least at the moment.
— G. Luke Hartstein and John Torous, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024 -
With this in mind, Piper looked through the S & P 500 dividend payers to see which stocks could be at risk of seeing a dividend cut.
— Sean Conlon, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024 -
If patients get healthier and stay out of the hospital, payers and Eleanor split the savings.
— Claire Rychlewski, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024 -
The machine-readable files of payer-specific charges aren’t much use to consumers.
— Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 June 2021 -
They back single-payer by the widest margin, 54 percent to 40 percent.
— Nate Cohn, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019 -
First, since single-payer is the most efficient and effective way to fund healthcare, what would be wrong with that?
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022 -
Rate payer money on lobbying efforts for house bill six, lots of dots to connect in John.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Mar. 2022 -
The sports medicine clinic treating Preston told Lothar that the procedure had no medical billing code — an identifier that providers use to charge insurers and other payers.
— Lauren Sausser, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2024
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