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Because the 2003 payment formulas overpay plans by 12 percent or more compared to traditional Medicare, in 2006 enrollees in Medicare Advantage Private Fee-for-Service plans were offered a net extra benefit value ( the value of the additional benefits minus any additional premium ) of $ 55. 92 a month more than the traditional Medicare benefit package ; enrollees in other Medicare Advantage plans were offered a net extra benefit value of $ 71. 22 a month more.
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Because and 2003
Because of lack of financing, the development of oil fields near Doba, originally due to finish in 2000, was delayed until 2003.
Because of this trespass, the king reduced Molteni's and Agricola's combined salaries to a single annual salary of 1, 000 Thalers ( Agricola's annual salary alone had been 1, 500 Thalers ).< ref > Scherer, F. M. < i > Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries .</ i > Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003 .</ ref > Agricola died in Berlin at age 54.
In 2003, Twain participated in the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman, covering Parton's classic " Coat of Many Colors ", with backing vocals by Alison Krauss.
Because the date of the Super Bowl had been set through 2003, the bye week prior to the Super Bowl would not return until 2004.
Because of its prolific use during this period, the American Dialect Society voted " weapons of mass destruction " ( and its abbreviation, " WMD ") the word of the year in 2002, and in 2003 Lake Superior State University added WMD to its list of terms banished for " Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness ".
Because of safety issues at 130R ( Formula One car driver Allan McNish had a serious crash during the Formula One car race the previous October there, resulting in a reprofiled 130R for 2003, known as 85R and 340R.
Because of the 2003 law's overpayments, the number of organizations offering Fee-for-Service plans has increased dramatically, from 11 in 2006 to almost 50 in 2008.
Because of his commitments to numerous other projects, Universal was forced to go without del Toro, and hired Tedi Sarafian ( credited on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ) to write a script in March 2003.
In 2003, she contributed a track to the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman, a cover of Parton's " Dagger Through the Heart ".
Because of a similar agreement applied to sound bites ( O-Töne, in German ) a German press organization suggested that the press refrain from reporting about the exhibition in Munich in 2003.
Because these events can last a long time, they may overlap: for instance, in February 2005 Joop van Oosterom was declared winner of the eighteenth Championship ( which began in June 2003 ), though the winner of the seventeenth Championship ( which began in March 2002 ) had not yet been determined.
Because Iraqi television was free to watch for anyone owning a proper satellite receiver in a proper region, it also received a substantial amount of attention from viewers in countries other than Iraq, especially during the 2003 invasion of the country.
Because only 7. 5 % of women with fistula are able to access treatment ( as found by the UNFPA in 2003 ), the vast majority of women are forced to suffer the consequences of obstructed and prolonged labor simply because options and access to help is so incredibly limited ( there is one hospital dedicated to fistula treatment in the world, located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ).
Because no utopian goal or final solution to intercultural misunderstanding or " miscommunication " ( as Gudykunst and Kim, 2003, put it p. 361 ) is postulated by the DAD theory such as an " upward-forward progress " in human development toward total assimilation, the DAD theory cannot be used to measure movement toward final desired and postulated outcomes based on value judgments.
Because of its history it was chosen as the site of a massive meeting against the World Trade Organization which took place in August 2003.
Because of strife within the assembly, the 2003 Loya jirga was dubbed, by some Afghans, the " loya jagra " (" big fight ").
He argues that it is not likely that the results can be explained by trade: Because developed states have large economies, they do not have high levels of trade interdependence ( 2005: 70 and footnote 5 ; Mousseau, Hegre & Oneal 2003: 283 ).
She also did a remake of the song, " Two Doors Down " on the 2003 release, Just Because I'm A Woman: The Songs of Dolly Parton.
Thomas Zachariah " Tom " Glazer ( September 2, 1914 – February 21, 2003 ) was an American folk singer and songwriter known primarily as a composer of ballads, including: " Because All Men Are Brothers ", recorded by The Weavers and Peter, Paul and Mary, " Talking Inflation Blues ", recorded by Bob Dylan, and " A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore ".
Because the orbit of SPOT 1 was lowered in 2003, it will gradually lose altitude and break up naturally in the atmosphere.
An appeal was filed, and a ruling in February 2003 came down in favor of WTVT, who successfully argued that the FCC policy against falsification was not a " law, rule, or regulation ", and so the whistle-blower law did not qualify as the required " law, rule, or regulation " under section 448. 102 .... Because the FCC's news distortion policy is not a " law, rule, or regulation " under section 448. 102, Akre has failed to state a claim under the whistle-blower's statute.
Because of the war in Darfur between Sudanese government forces and the non-Arab indigenous population, the region was in a state of humanitarian emergency between 2003 and 2010.
Because the segments are hollow, workers were able to enter the bridge superstructure in 2003 and 2004 to reinforce the corroded sections of the bridge, ensuring its future safety.
Because of increasingly restrictive legislation on family formation and reunification, the number of immigrants from Turkey and Morocco has decreased sharply since 2003.
Because and payment
Because silver was worth less than its legal equivalent in gold, taxpayers paid their government bills in silver, while international creditors demanded payment in gold, resulting in a depletion of the nation's gold supply.
Because of a payment to the Manfredi family by Puccini, Elvira was spared having to serve the sentence.
Because payment of tax is compulsory and enforced by the legal system, some political philosophies view taxation as theft ( or as slavery, or as a violation of property rights ), or tyranny, accusing the government of levying taxes via force and coercive means.
Because of the debt she had accumulated ( including delayed payment for her property in Auburn ), Tubman fell prey in 1873 to a swindle involving gold transfer.
Because Medicare offers statutorily determined benefits, its coverage policies and payment rates are publicly known, and all enrollees are entitled to the same coverage.
Because Medicare pays for a huge share of health care in every region of the country, it has a great deal of power to set delivery and payment policies.
Because mental health treatment does not lend itself to fixed price costing, other exceptions are made by insurance companies for payment in the case of longer term casemix averages.
Because it did not abide by the National Agreement on player payment in place in organized baseball, the Federal League was called an " outlaw league " by its competitors.
Because of the use of dbx companding, every TV device that decoded MTS originally required the payment of royalties, first to dbx, Inc., then to THAT Corporation which was spun off from dbx in 1989 and acquired its MTS patents in 1994 ; however, those patents expired worldwide in 2004.
Because payment is made at piece rates, it is hard to get reliable figures for messenger income.
Because of the two levels being separate on most cars, there is a physical limitation on the conductor, as it is difficult for him to verify, collect payment and sell tickets to such a large concentration of passengers in one car on each level, owing to the sometimes short distance between stops.
Because it is required that the funds be prepaid for the amount shown on it, it is a more trusted method of payment than a cheque.
Because they could not readily raise this sum, the East India Company allowed the Dogra ruler Gulab Singh to acquire Kashmir from the Sikh kingdom in exchange for making a payment of 750, 000 rupees to the East India Company.
Because of the large payment at the end of the loan, refinancing risk resulted in widespread foreclosures.
Because of the commonality of credit cards and instant payment methods through the Internet, COD purchasing has become obsolete in most cases.
Because income is a payment for output, it is assumed that total income should eventually be equal to total output.
Because New York was the place where payment was supposed to be made, the Court concluded that the effect was direct, notwithstanding the fact that none of the plaintiffs were situated in New York.
Because he promised to build it in honor of his mother, Ella Watson Mizner, the architect refused payment for his services.
Because members must confirm some details of their identity when they make their payment, a touted advantage of paysites is the potential to keep minors from the viewing of their content, which, in several jurisdictions, including the United States, is illegal.
* Because prepaid services can often be topped up using cash and vouchers, there is no way to trace the payment and hence determine the identity of a prepaid phone user from payment records.
Because of the lack of an initial written contract, the Oregon Justice Department confirmed it planned to review the $ 2. 3 million severance payment from the University of Oregon to the former athletic director.
Because of regulatory requirements associated with the Patriot Act and the Bank Secrecy Act due to updated concerns over money laundering, most insurance and brokerage firms will no longer accept money orders as payment for insurance premiums or as deposits into brokerage accounts.
Because of low enlistments from Oregon and Washington, he supported the military draft, and failing that, supported the payment of bounties.
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