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...Payment? No payment. You must be joking. You’re my guest,” the “owner” says. Suddenly all’s clear. Naively I’ve wandered into this man’s home. How do I get out without seeming impolite or scared? His manner is intimidating: when I attempt to refuse his offer, he insists with enormous emphasis. Perhaps he is a little strange in the head, or maybe just slightly inebriated. I decide to go with the latter. Five minutes later, we sit in front of two large...
...Payment plans vary from one visiting professor to another...
...severe sinus infection and was sent a $12,338 bill that included $650 a day for the room and $6 for each ibuprofen pill. Uninsured and living mainly on her husband Joe's $800-a-month pension at the time, she says she tried to negotiate a payment plan, but the hospital refused. Provena won a judgment, and today the couple pays $100 in monthly installments, with scant hope of paying off their $27,000 in hospital bills (owed not just to Provena). Says Joe, 63: "We didn't go in expecting charity, but we didn't expect exorbitant prices...
...added that the gift is “a re-payment for letting me serve my country for four years...
...complaint is about money. Cuq says that while rates for general practitioners have generally kept pace with inflation, government-mandated reimbursements for surgical procedures haven't changed in the last 15 years. "For a standard operation to remove varicose veins, a French surgeon in a hospital gets the same payment of roughly j80 that he did in 1990," Cuq claims. The Health Ministry has offered a 10% fee increase, conceding that the responsibilities of surgeons "have been insufficiently taken into account over the last 15 years." But the surgeons say that's not enough. The dispute is part...