1.   But those added costs are balanced with savings on long-distance calls, because Sprint bills the company for all calls at local rates.

2.   Darner and his partners billed insurance companies for tests and procedures that were never performed or were medically unnecessary, Eddins said.

3.   He outlined medical insurance codes and said they were misused in billing insurance companies for the administration of antineoplastons.

4.   Medaphis grew from an obscure medical billing company, principally by gobbling up dozens of small rivals.

5.   The biggest challenge for billing companies is to create a concise billing statement that includes all services for an individual telephone user, executives at the conference said.

6.   The charge was from an Internet billing company with a completely unhelpful Web site.

7.   The company would offer to pay a certain amount, the firm would bill the company and then payment would arrive.

8.   The services offered by billing companies include software development, customer service, consulting and processing.

9.   Under the current system, any business can enter into a contract with a local telephone or billing company to charge consumers through their phone bills.

10.   By marrying Web content and high-speed access, the company was billed as a potential challenger to America Online and a strong force for bringing broadband to the masses.