How to Use payer in a Sentence

payer

noun
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  • But as the price tag has risen, the state has become the primary payer.
    — Hartford Courant, 26 May 2022
  • And in this grant, a lot of federal grants need to be the payer of last resort.
    — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 9 Mar. 2021
  • And yet Democrats couldn’t pass single-payer health care.
    — Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Enrollment is the process of adding providers to a payer's network.
    — Tammy Hawes, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Some see it as a backdoor to a single-payer plan over time.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The joke will be on the county of Los Angeles and its tax payers if the project goes forward.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • That level was enough to rank Costco 18th on PayScale's list of fair payers.
    — Benjamin Romano, Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2018
  • The owners usually set the deal so all the revenue goes to the owner and all the expenses go to the tax payers.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • In 2011, the Times notes, Shumlin made Vermont the first state in the nation to approve single-payer health care.
    — Will Swaim, National Review, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Each of the owners was compensated with tax-payer funds for the loss of the animals.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
  • And that's what gives the drug now the opportunity to be paid for by the payers, and to be more available to patients.
    — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • In many ways, his plan still falls far short of single-payer options.
    — Max Nisen, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Often, the malls are among the largest — if not the largest — payer of local property taxes.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But these days, Medicare is merely the biggest of many payers.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 20 Dec. 2018
  • In 2014, the state abandoned what would have been the nation’s first statewide single-payer health care system.
    — Wilson Ring, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • This is the wrong footing for proponents of any kind of single-payer health care plan.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Hicks told The Canadian Press that plans to replace the bridge is underway, and that local tax payers won't foot the bill for the cost.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 19 Sep. 2018
  • His own state of Vermont so far does not have a single-payer program.
    — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The single-payer talk set off other discussions about the role of health insurance and the cost of care.
    — Jon Greenberg, Scientific American, 27 June 2019
  • The Palm Beach County jail is already quite full, with tax payers bearing the burden.
    — Alex Freeman, Sun Sentinel, 23 July 2024
  • So why hasn’t every state built an all-payer claims database?
    — John Freedman, STAT, 5 June 2018
  • On the flip side, Biden won 42% of voters who oppose a single-payer system.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • That won't result in a rate increase for tax payers: the initial bonds used to build the library will be replaced by these new ones.
    — Kaitlin Lange, Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2019
  • He and Ms Harris tussled at the start over the wisdom of Medicare for All, as the idea of a single-payer health-care system is known.
    — I.k. | Washington, The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The group of stocks is rebalanced at the end of each year to maintain an investment in the top 10 dividend payers.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But the problems with single-payer go well beyond cost.
    — Scott W. Atlas, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • The school board should represent the tax payers, as well as support our students and our teachers.
    — Pioneer Press Elections Team, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Achiuwa has yet to sign with a team and can return to the Knicks for at most the $5.2 million tax payer’s mid-level exception.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024
  • The wily Canuck was practically invisible for the first three weeks of the season, a victim of far flashier payers (cough, Rome, cough) that commandeered all the camera time.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • UnitedHealthcare is the largest private payer of health insurance benefits in the United States.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024

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