Her bill would authorize Medicaid to pay doctors their customary fees.

Her plan will save some money by eliminating the customary fees paid to investment bankers.

Under current law, doctors are reimbursed on the basis of "reasonable and customary fees."

Lawyers charged only 20 percent of their customary fees, and administrative services for distributing the funds were kept to $125,000.

Lexus said it had paid for their travel and expenses, and customary fees.

These are called "customary fees."

The fund would charge investors the customary fees and pay royalties to the club for the use of its name and its proprietary investment screen.

And Brennan had paid the customary fees in trust for Estelle and Jennifer.

The women, who were given hormone injections to increase their egg production, were paid the institute's customary fees for egg donation, $1,500 apiece.

Instead of a discount from "usual and customary fees," the complaint said, payments are now based on what doctors actually receive - including low managed-care fees.

But the cable systems have agreed to carry new cable channels started by the broadcast networks, and to pay the customary fees for any cable-only programming.

Ratan Chand, in addition to these customary fees, exacted large sums, which were practically bribes or payments for the grant of the appointment.

Many traditional health plans and physician networks have for several years been relatively generous to doctors, giving them something close to the "usual and customary fees" in a community.

But the networks pay less than his customary fees, which means that he has to see more patients, going farther afield in Westchester County, to maintain his income.

Such ecclesiastical services were supposed to be free, but customary fees had grown up and became subjects of debate between rigorists and laxists, and between laymen and clergy.

The program's founders wanted to give doctors an incentive to participate, so the 1965 law assured them they would be paid their "usual and customary fees," as long as the fees were also "reasonable."

The S.E.C. filing says that "from time to time, in the past, Lazard Freres has represented K.K.R. and received customary fees therefore," something that Lazard has acknowledged.

In order to end the manipulation of ratings, McCain's legislation would prohibit payments from the promoter to the sanctioning organizations outside of the customary fees and expenses due the organization for sanctioning a bout.

But studio executives said that once Mr. Crichton and the Donners earned their customary fees - Mr. Donner earns as much as $10 million a film - the box office percentage would drop.

Jagas visited villages in their charge every two to three years to record the events and collect the customary fees in the form of cattle, elephants (from very rich patrons), grain and money to which they were entitled.

The constable's traditional competence lay in military and chivalric matters, and thus in 1478 it was Gloucester, 'in his own person', who dealt with the refusal of four new knights to pay the customary fees to the officers of arms.

Leo Glickman, a Democratic campaign finance lawyer not affiliated with any campaign, said yesterday that it was "highly unusual" for a campaign to sign a lease for Manhattan office space and not have to pay customary fees like a security deposit.

The film's relatively small budget of $31 million, which Zemeckis later calculated was his smallest budget in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1980, was due to tax rebates from Georgia and from Zemeckis and Washington having waived their customary fees.

In 1995, Republicans - having overcome their opposition to Medicare - snared the A.M.A.'s support by promising doctors "reasonable increases in fees," code words for a taxpayer-financed blank check that are eerily similar to the "usual and customary fees" concession of 1965.

Since there is no qualifier in that amendment providing for the ability to pay usual and customary fees as a condition to receiving this right, Professor Shafiroff evidently believes those unable to afford a lawyer can obtain this right by calling up a law firm and requesting the services of counsel in relation to their ability to pay.