1.   A provision in the federal budget agreement makes it far easier for Medicare patients to get reimbursed for treatment from a chiropractor.

2.   Fee-for-service is the traditional payment plan in which an insurer reimburses patients who choose their own doctor.

3.   For example, many managed-care insurers will reimburse patients for only one brand of a particular drug but not others.

4.   He also expressed doubt that all managed-care insurers will reimburse the patients.

5.   Telectronics vice president Larry Wettlaufer said the company would reimburse patients for costs of fluoroscopic monitoring and pacemaker removal that are not covered by their medical insurance.

6.   The company is awaiting approval for its external insulin pump by the Health Care Financing Administration, the agency that decides whether Medicare will reimburse patients for treatments.

7.   Within the profession, fudging insurance company forms to ensure that patients are reimbursed is anything but a secret.

8.   Sulzer also asked doctors to monitor patients and promised to reimburse patients who needed remedial surgery.

9.   This would save money, since social security reimburses patients for the fees.

10.   In France most ambulances are privately operated and social security reimburses patients for the money they spend on transport.