That is what will end the excessive payments in our banks."

And that means making every attempt to limit exposure to excessive payments in the coming months.

Federal officials said they were considering several options to reduce "excessive payments" for drugs now covered under Medicare.

As you say, it would be out of character for such excessive payments to be made otherwise."

These irregularities relate mainly to excessive payments and the incorrect use of funds.

The people at the bottom make excessive payments for inventory that simply accumulates in their basements.

I am aware that the bill of exchange is used in one of our Member States as a means to counter excessive payments.

But the problems of CBS stood out in a year especially undone by excessive payments for sports.

While those executive bonuses raise moral and ethical questions, the bigger problem is the culture that would allow those excessive payments in the first place.

At least one lawsuit has been filed against TAP to recover the excessive payments by patients.

They typically send out excessive payments that represent 1 percent to 3 percent of the relief distributed, money they then ask people to give back.

Neal Pilson, an industry consultant, said the industry "self-regulates and compensates" for excessive payments.

The White House says the changes are needed to ensure the "fiscal integrity" of Medicaid and to curb "excessive payments."

The excessive payments, both mistaken and intentional, did not go unnoticed by many hospital administrations that received them, Mr. Robinson said.

Texas officials said poor management of the Children's Health Insurance Program had resulted in excessive payments to Clarendon.

One part of the reform involves reducing excessive payments that the Bush Administration agreed to when it set up the Medicare Advantage program in 2003.

The new law says the secretary may not use this authority again until Congressional investigators have reviewed her prior actions and she issues new criteria to identify excessive payments.

The enormous amount of excessive payments was a complicated combination of miscalculation and, later, blatant cover-up by Blue Cross officials, Mr. Robinson said.

The Federal Government is conducting a criminal inquiry into excessive payments on the Navy's secret A-12 attack plane, the Defense Department told Congress on Monday.

Some hospitals placed the extra money in savings accounts and neither spent nor reported it; other hospitals reported the excessive payments to "various individuals," he said, but declined to elaborate.

Is it unreasonable to suppose that if the excessive payments to executives like Mr. Cheney had been reduced to reasonable amounts, this industry's returns would have been far greater?

Among its purposes are "promoting efficiency in local district determinations of eligibility for public assistance and care", "to expedite such determinations", and "to reduce unauthorized or excessive payments".

Investigators said that the mobsters set up Tri-Con, investing their own money and using employees as managers, and intimidated some health plan administrators into approving excessive payments to the company.

The board has been accused of being too cozy and of making excessive payments to top executives, for example, when it paid $100 million in severance to Michael Ovitz, the company's ousted president.

The attorney, R. Bradford Leggett of Winston-Salem, said he and David W. Clark, the ministry's bankruptcy trustee, were conducting their own investigation of the excessive payments.