But skeptics say greater benefits will only draw more enrollees to the plans, which will increase profits, and that it is nearly impossible for Medicare officials to tell whether private plans are tucking excess payments in administrative costs or other areas that are hard to pin down.
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Mobile Gas appealed the administrative decision of the FPC to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which reversed the decision and directed the FPC to reject the new tariffed rate in question and to order United Gas to refund the excess payments received under the new rate.
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Enron's Dec . 2 bankruptcy filing is likely to cost Portland General customers an average of more than $ 500 each in excess payments that the utility eventually would have had to refund, according to a consulting firm, Regulatory and Cogeneration Services, of Vancouver, Wash.
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"Medicare is paying a disproportionate share of HMOs'administrative costs " _ much more than its " fair share " _ and the government should try to recover the excess payments, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services said in a new report.
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The problem, according to federal investigators, is " highly inflated " administrative costs . HMOs aren't paying their " fair share " of these costs, and government should attempt to recover the excess payments, according to the report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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This led the United States District Court for the Southern District of California to state that arbitration under AT & T Mobility's agreement was " quick, easy to use, and prompts full or, as described by Plaintiffs, even excess payment to the customer " without " the need to arbitrate or litigate ."
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The lawsuit said Blue Cross " improperly billed . . . more than the amount owed to hospitals for medical services and retained the excess payments for itself, " thereby violating federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, known as ERISA . The Labor Department also alleges that Blue Cross inflated copayments paid by patients, and improperly raised the fees it charged employers.
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The duty to indemnify is the insurer's duty to pay all covered sums for which the insured is held liable, up to the limits of coverage and subject to any deductibles, retained limits, self-insured retentions, excess payments, or any other amounts of money which the insured is required to pay out-of-pocket as a precondition to the insurer's duty.
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Mobile Gas paid the new rate until April 15, 1955, when it assigned its contract with Ideal Cement to United Gas with the approval of the FPC . Since the only remaining issue was the alleged excess payment resulting from the difference between 10.7 and 14.5 cents per MCF that Mobil Gas had paid to United Gas while responsible for the contract, the FPC ended its investigation regarding the validity of the new rate as it believed that its ruling would not have a retroactive effect.