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The change in billing rules comes in response to complaints that for-profit hospice agencies "cherry-pick" patients who will require less-expensive care, such as for Alzheimer's or neurological disorders, rather than cancer patients, but then receive the same flat rate of $143 a day as do non-profit hospices that tend to take on more-expensive patients.

Hospice lobbyists battle over Medicare payment system 2011

The company determined that business was lost when prices were raised on less-expensive, or, "good," merchandise, in industry jargon, but that more-expensive products bore up under higher prices.

J.C. Penney's Profit Rises 36% Karen Talley 2011

First-time home buyers helped stimulate higher home sales as existing homeowners bought more-expensive homes.

Boston: Tax credit helped housing market bounce back 2010

The success has put pressure on the company to keep expanding the brand, its third-largest by volume, especially as consumers may "trade-up" to more-expensive drinks with an improving economy.

Hawaiian Punch Makes Over Drink, Mascot Paul Ziobro 2011

"Capital is a more-expensive form of funding than debt so, to the extent we increase their costs to fund their balance sheet, we can create some pressure to limit growth and also help level the competitive playing field between large and small institutions," Ms. Bair said.

FDIC's Bair: New Capital Rules Won't Hurt Lending Deborah Solomon 2011

It's easy for customers to " Google for another price and if you have no added value to your more-expensive product, you will lose," she says.

The Price Is Right. Or Is it? Emily Maltby 2011

He laughed at that behind her back, but she laughed too, at the dinners they had to go to now, where the laughs were poured out in miserly fashion like the more-expensive wine they drank now;

The Last Beach Heather Con Chapman 2011

Wal-Mart's China division was caught in a public-relations storm in October, when 13 of its stores in Chongqing were temporarily closed, two employees were arrested and 35 others were detained over alleged mislabeling of ordinary pork sold as a more-expensive organic variety.

Wal-Mart Picks New China Chief Laurie Burkitt 2012

When I balked at the more-expensive Deep Tissue massage, she gave it to me anyway.

'John Travolta Was Here' Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Virgin America, jetBlue Airways and AirTran Airways are pricing some markets significantly higher than their bigger, typically more-expensive competitors, expecting robust demand and limited airline capacity will lead to full planes at full fares.

Warning: A Foul Outlook for Holiday Airfares Nikki Waller 2010