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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"Billing"”.
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A systems approach to reducing utility billing errors
… The context of this research is in reducing billing errors at a utility company which for confidentiality reasons we refer to as United Energy. We use several system methodologies including System Dynamics and Safety System Analysis, to assess the billing operation system and process, to …
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On the use of utility billing information for predicting homelessness
… homelessness. In this study, customer utility billing data, as well as data related to housing and geographical area, are analyzed and tested for usefulness in the prediction of homelessness. It was found that the utility billing variables were not significantly associated with the outcome of …
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Privacy-preserving authentication and billing for dynamic charging of electric vehicles
… protocols for digital authentication and billing. Due to EV's high mobility, location privacy is also an important research issue. In this thesis we present three protocols: FADEC, Portunes, and Janus, that together provide privacy-preserving authentication and billing framework for …
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Television, race and national identity : a study of South Africa's lifestyle programme Top billing
… into the weekly lifestyle/magazine programme Top Billing, aired on SABC3 (South African Broadcasting Corporation) – primarily in South Africa and in other surrounding African nations – to a total of over 6 million viewers. In its eighteenth year on South African television, Top Billing has entered …
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The Impacts of Insurance and Billing Considerations On The Practice and Attitudes of Genetic Counselors
… we aimed to characterize how insurance and billing considerations for genetic testing are being incorporated into genetic counselors’ practice; as well as describe current attitudes and challenges associated with their integration. An electronic survey was sent by email to members of the …
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Assessing Customer Satisfaction on Electricity Conventional Billing System in Tanzania The Case of TANESCO Ilala Region
… satisfaction on electricity conventional billing system in Tanzania the case of TANESCO Ilala region. The study used questionnaire to gather data from 242 respondents whose responses were descriptively analysed with the aid of SPSS. The study found that there were two types of paying …
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To Bill or Not to Bill: Medicaid Billing for Special Education Related Services in Arkansas Public Schools
… to access. LEAs can access Medicaid funds by: billing through a contracted service, establishing their own billing system, or may choose not billing Medicaid. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Medicaid billing processes used in Arkansas public schools. The study considers …
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Essays on Health Care Accessibility
… another important policy issue related to NPs: a billing custom known as “incident-to” billing. Incident-to billing occurs when services provided by an NP are billed under a supervising physician’s national provider identifier. When incident-to billing occurs, the services provided by the NP are …
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Information and environmental policy
… to which consumers respond under complicated billing structures. I exploit a natural experiment to estimate a causal effect of price for residential water customers during the introduction of increasing block rates for a North Carolina utility. Perceived price is identified through a billing …
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An analysis of household water consumption in the City of Cape Town using a panel data set (2016-2020)
… field of study. This thesis uses a household billing dataset that tracks the quantity of water consumed by households in the City of Cape Town (CoCT) from 2016 to 2020. The household billing data was filtered to include only household observations and then aggregated to the ward level. As a …
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Utility measurement requirements : SASOL 1 site as case study
… focusses on the potable water measuring and billing practices taking place on the SASOL 1 site. A field study, interviews and questionnaires were used to gather the relevant data which was subsequently compiled into a Stakeholder Requirement Statement. The latter is a description of the ideal …
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The Burden of Biopsy-Proven Pediatric Celiac Disease in Ontario, Canada: Derivation of Health Administrative Data Algorithms and Determination of Health Services Utilization
… physician visits for CD plus endoscopy billing code were constructed and tested. Results: The best algorithm selected based on performance from derivation study and clinical expertise consisted of an OHIP-based endoscopy billing claim followed by 1 or more adult or pediatric …
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A study investigating the health care support service training needs for Gloucester County and workforce development demand
… providers for the occupations medical coding and billing and for medical administrator. The occupations of medical coding and billing and medical administrator were listed as "in demand" on the NJ Employment Information Website in 2003 which meant that persons pursuing training in those …
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An Economic Evaluation of Primary Care Behavioral Health in Pediatrics: A Case Study
… health is financial risk. Fee-for-service billing mechanisms remain complex and there is little empirical guidance on cost-effective models. This study was an economic evaluation of an integrated care model in a pediatric private practice clinic. The study evaluated cost benefits by …
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The study to investigate water provision by Okakarara town council
… to dilapidated water infrastructure and a sound billing system were revealed as the most prominent. These factors impact on the issue of affordability and thus affect the ability of the residents to pay adversely. The study also found that there are some examples like billing systems from …
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Telecommunications networks for remote electricity supply metering and load control
… continues by describing the meter reading and billing processes (Chapter 3) and introduces the concepts of remote metering, the consumer billing interface (Chapters 4 and 5), load control and spot pricing theory (Chapter 6). A review of recent load control and remote metering field trials, …
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Enabling technologies for a web-based urban street construction permit system
… status for the affected street and prepare the billing report for further processing with the existing billing system. The web-based permit system is divided into two sub-systems: External System and Internal System. The external system is used by contractor/utility companies for permit …
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Essays on development economics
… presents evidence that the standard electricity billing process contributes to inelastic demand. The paper assesses the elasticity of demand for electricity for customers using two metering and billing technologies. The first technology, postpaid metering, allows customers to use energy and …
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Smart control architecture for microgrid application
… applied to a small microgrid to reduce the billing cost for power incorporating battery degradation mechanism.</p> <p>Three works are discussed in this research that discusses methodologies to improve the operation of a three phase grid connected inverters. The first work discusses a …
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Legal and Ethical Issues in Telepsychology: A Handbook for Psychologists
… licensure, clinical practice liability coverage, billing/payment, competence, client welfare, consent, confidentiality, and boundary navigation. After this analysis, we introduce a series of scenarios for readers to apply the discussed considerations to exercise critical thinking.</p>
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