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"We want to have a balanced bill that protects the water supply for 3.5 million people," he said.

In 1987, about 27% of French physicians chose to balance bill.

"This is a very carefully balanced bill," he said.

This round presents an unusually balanced bill of fare.

Even this modest and balanced bill stirred many lawmakers to complain that their integrity was being questioned.

The law, he said, prohibits "balance billing," however.

"This is a balanced bill that supports the priorities of the military services," Mr. Stevens said.

All balanced billing plans include a provision for an adjustment in the last month to cover overpayments or underpayments.

At the same time, balance billing allows providers additional cost recovery in the case that the reimbursement for services does not cover their cost.

Balance billing is prohibited in Germany.

Secondly, it limited the amount Medicare non-providers could balance bill Medicare beneficiaries.

In the compromise, Mr. Specter said, "we have cut through the knotty problems to produce what I think is a balanced bill."

For everything else he had to wait for his balance bill - if he had any credit to wait for.

Balance billing is prohibited in Taiwan, and extra fees have only been allowed recently, and in rare defined circumstances.

He had these attacks periodically, and made an arrangement with me by which I was to deal with him, and we were to balance bills against each other.

In either case, these balanced billing plans, or budget billing, as they are sometimes known, are not for everyone, Mr. Kessel said.

Providers are allowed to charge the patient the difference between the total cost of care and what PhilHealth pays (i.e., balance billing).

Mr. Sperling, in a telephone interview after the vote, said the administration was "disappointed that the president's repeated efforts to find a more balanced bill were rejected."

I support the Gang of Six efforts and co-sponsored the Cut, Cap and Balance bill in the Senate.

Throughout the 1970s in Canada, the country saw an increase in balance billing, which in Canada is normally called extra-billing.

Balance billing is prohibited in Japan, and extra fees are only allowed in a small number of circumstances, such as having a hospital bed with extra amenities.

Spending caps (Also included in some of the Balanced Budget resolutions and the Cut, Cap, and Balance bills.

Advocates of balance billing argue that it increases the incomes of high-quality healthcare providers, and serves as a measure of their dissatisfaction with insurance company fees.

"There is no obligation for an out-of-network physician not to balance bill," she said, using the term for collecting charges in excess of those approved by the health plan.

Instead, providers and payers compete on proficiency at "gaming" the system by cost-shifting, self-referral, "balance billing" of patients above insurers' agreed rates and creative denial of insurance claims.