direct payment

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Incentives were limited to provision of seeds, plants, and inputs and not directpayment for conservation.
The union requested 'that the system of recruiting labour through the contractors must cease' and demanded direct employment and directpayment by the managements.
This would require directpayment by patients to physicians and to other healthcare providers.
There are several ways that somebody with a directpayment can recruit a personal assistant.
Physicians generally have the discretion to waive directpayment charges for professional services.
Each able-bodied adult person has to contribute 20 days of work to the community without any directpayment.
We agree that there seems to be no directpayment incentives for quality of care in the current system.
Both the natural lottery and the directpayment rules, therefore, are legitimate means of compensating risk impositions.
Some agencies are prepared to pitch their fees for carers/personal assistants at whatever the level of the directpayment is.
Under the 2003 regulations, a directpayment may be used to employ close relatives as personal assistants, even those living in the same household as the cared-for person.
Obviously, it should not be assumed that every person in receipt of a social services care package will opt for a directpayment in lieu of services.
Private insurance reimburses members directly for allowable expenses incurred for outpatient services and has some contracts with providers, including hospitals and doctors, for directpayment arrangements.
We do note, however, that, although the obstacles to implementing a payment approach deserve careful consideration, a directpayment approach to ecosystem protection cannot be dismissed as impractical.
Some local authorities have introduced directpayment systems and others have not.
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