"It's difficult to answer both in terms of overall cost and initial cost to implement, " she said.
It may lead to cheaper treatment, although the initial cost of the novel devices often offsets the savings from shorter hospital stays.
Mr Cooper also found that initial cost projections tended dramatically to underestimate actual costs, as the Vogtle experience would seem to bear out.
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It may also offer a free credit monitoring service to help check your account and pay for the initial cost of a security freeze.
Mortgage lenders have been falling over backwards to win their business with special deals, designed to bring down still further the initial cost of borrowing.
"Typically a consumer is sensitive to the initial cost of the gadget he wants to play with, " says Jim Porter, president of Mountain View, Calif.
The upfront cost is higher than a (noisier) diesel generator, but he estimates the initial cost would be paid back in less than a year.
When retailers rely on professional executives instead of leaders with merchandising and sales backgrounds, success beyond the initial cost cutting is a pretty dim prospect.
The plug-and-play solution minimizes engineering effort and civil requirements and lowers initial cost, scheduling, technical, permitting and financing risks with its factory-tested components and GE warranties.
This means the Navy will incur a huge fiscal liability with the true cost of these DDG 51 ships, effectively doubling their initial cost on paper.
In fact, the average initial cost of a heart transplant, with drugs and post-surgery care, including catheterizations and scans, can be close to a million dollars.
Aging planes are expected to be replaced by more fuel-efficient models, behind the initial cost of the airplane, fuel costs are the second largest cost associated with airplanes.
Though the trader did not exit the position yesterday, it seems he was still able to sell the puts this morning at a premium to his initial cost.
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The report found that borrowers tended to focus on the low initial cost of the debt, failing to consider how those payments might change relative to their incomes.
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Essentially, private insurers cover the initial cost of terror-related losses.
Vendor lock-in may be unavoidable at this point, but what companies need to do is understand up-front what the exit strategy will be, and build those costs into the initial cost analysis.
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Private firms are expected to put up a large chunk of the initial cost and, in June, a public-private body known as the Joint Undertaking was set up to carry the project to completion.
It will have some costs on the front end -- you buy a new boiler, or you get some insulation, or you get some new windows, that's going to have an initial cost, and the same is true from a government perspective.
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The car dealer at Mitsubishi tried to explain how rapidly the car would pay back the initial cost in saved petrol and congestion charge costs - but how many motorists will swallow that when they could get two or three petrol cars for the price of an electric vehicle?
Along with the initial high cost of purchasing an electric car, the lack of charging stations across the country is a big deterrent for consumers looking to buy electric cars.
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As a result, property owners were faced with cost increases after the initial estimate of the cost of the works had been notified to them.
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Offshore wind projects are evaluated in terms of their initial installed capital cost (ICC) as well as their life-cycle costs, which are often described as the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).
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The initial one-time cost is obvious, but investors also incur the opportunity cost of less money in the fund to earn future returns.
Apart from this, the spending needs to cover cost of initial implementation of the technology as well as ongoing security fixes could weigh on Starbucks.
Meanwhile, initial estimates of the cost of UK Libya operations have been released by Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey in response to a parliamentary question in the House of Commons.
As in the first leg, they had to survive some early Shakhtar pressure - but the Ukrainian side's inability to take advantage of their initial supremacy once again cost them dearly.
If the music school sells the violin within three years of your gift (but not during the same calendar year), you (usually) must include the amount your initial deduction exceeded your cost as income in the year of the sale.
Energy access has a cost and the initial expenditure on connections or better technologies can be high.
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