1.  Billing practices have also changed to reflect the risk of doing business with dot-coms.

2.  After a federal jury convicted a lawyer on mail-fraud charges connected to billing practices that are common throughout the profession, the legal community trembled.

3.  Consumers should also check other details about billing practices before signing up, warns Bankcard Holders of America, a nonprofit consumer group in McLean, Va.

4.  Corning said the claims involved marketing and billing practices at the laboratories before Corning acquired them.

5.  Disagreement between hospitals and insurers over billing practices is nothing new, nor is it confined to Massachusetts hospitals and Harvard Pilgrim.

6.  Family pressures, even hospital billing practices, can influence what is listed as a cause of death.

7.  In an unrelated situation, America Online is still talking with federal and state officials who are looking into billing practices.

8.  In the past, companies would think about billing practices after they designed a product.

9.  Most lawyers say any fee arrangement should be put in writing, explaining hourly rates, disbursements and billing practices.

10.  Nashville, Tennessee-based Columbia, a hospital and healthcare company, is under a federal investigation for billing practices.