How to Use payer in a Sentence

payer

noun
  • But as the price tag has risen, the state has become the primary payer.
    Hartford Courant, 26 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The machine-readable files of payer-specific charges aren’t much use to consumers.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 June 2021
  • 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
  • Another way to address systemic harm is to find business models in which the consumer is not the payer.
    Tarun Galagali, STAT, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Somebody is representing the rate payer, even if the legislature and the PUC was not.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Patients bear the burden through greater access restrictions and a shifting of the costs from payers to patients.
    Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • In many cases, the drugmakers gave in and cut deals—offering rebates to the payers or coupons to the patients, so that patients could at least give them a chance.
    Maria Aspan, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The payer will send you a Form 1099 to document these types of miscellaneous payments.
    E. Napoletano, wsj.com, 2 Jan. 2024
  • This is a particular problem for Treasury, which is among the biggest payers on the planet – if not the biggest.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • For hospitals, health systems and primary care providers, what is the payer mix and cost structure?
    Seth Joseph, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • As a cash payer, he was charged much more than what an insurance company would be charged for the same treatment for some services.
    WSJ, 6 July 2021
  • For years, Hallmark was the top payer for holiday programming, but that’s changed.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Before getting to the point where the car would simply drive itself away, delinquent payers would be subject to a litany of annoyances.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • To see how, look to the inspiration for Sen. Sanders's single-payer vision—Canada.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • When a patient has access to other coverage, the IHS becomes the payer of last resort.
    Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Medicaid, by far the largest single payer, covers about 60% of nursing home care.
    Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2021
  • Barnes and Nelson have backed Medicare for All, a single-payer healthcare system.
    Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2022
  • Lack of support from Newsom is just one of many hurdles in the path of that proposal for a single-payer healthcare system in the state, George Skelton wrote.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • All of which requires a crucial third glance at the seemingly innocuous efforts by the CFPB to lower the charges levied on late payers.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Ramachandran called for a $22-an-hour minimum wage and single payer health care.
    Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2021
  • But single-payer health care’s track record is disastrous.
    Sally C. Pipes, National Review, 21 Feb. 2022

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