这里in paying比in payment好是因为doing通常暗示主句主语就是动作的主语, the health care company then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying to doctors and hospitals,pay动作的发起者是 the health care company,用paying ok;
当前面是一个名词,后面需要一个名词与之平行的时候,concrete noun优于gerund。
Ron:
both of them are idiomatically legitimate; they just mean different things.
a plan TO DO X means that people now have the intention of doing X, whereas before they did not.
a plan FOR DOING X means a plan for how to actually execute this action; usually, this construction implies that the intention was already there, but that the plan of execution is new.
similar固定搭配 be similar to xxx