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Essays 151 - 180
America, not the least of which is hospice care. Even funding sources of the magnitude of Medicare and private insurers have come ...
debt while meeting operational overhead expenses. As the federal government seeks to gain the benefits of increasing qualit...
that health insurance is simply a fringe benefit as opposed to a fundamental right (1994). Another issue that comes into play is...
to be able to liberalize their policies, something that has made life difficult for many people, and not just seniors or the disab...
In fifteen pages this paper examines Medicare in an assessment of fee for services vs. managed care plans. Fifteen sources are ci...
This fifty page paper provides an extensive examination of ambulatory payment systems development in the environment of modern hea...
$3 billion annually, that is about 10 percent of all claims (Albert, 2004). There are a number of laws that specifically address ...
frameworks include the "Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1998" (Texas Le...
"yes" response to a question requiring clarification takes the user directly to the point where that clarification can be entered....
The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...
This is one of the largest settlements reached in the many similar cases that have come under review. Aside from the fraud involv...
payments is more lucrative then the financial "risk" of being caught. Like any crime, if the law is lax in either the presence of...
billing stipulations. Also in 2004, spending on services rendered by physical therapists (PTs) increased dramatically. Wallace lis...
then the financial "risk" of being caught. Like any crime, if the law is lax in either the presence of legal directive or its enf...
the poorest communities, in terms of income level, have the lowest standard of health: a group which practises low-risk behaviours...
most of the differences between them rest on the types of drugs covered under each specific plan. The mechanics of each plan are ...
the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...
cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...
income which is far from adequate, they sometimes have to literally make the decision whether to eat or buy the drugs which have b...
American Medical Colleges, American Medical Assn. et al. v. United States), which alleged the government is conducting illegal Med...
electric scooter to virtually anyone over the age of 65, CMS current position is that no individual will be approved to receive on...
and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...
including a primary pipeline that extends 280 miles across the Andes. To build the roads, forests were cleared and Indian lands bu...
back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...
with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...
influences the degree to which health care costs rise in that it establishes what it will and will not pay for goods and services....
care is no more a right than is the "right" to drive fast cars (Marmor, 2000); far more subscribe to the view that access to healt...
the long run, providing bariatric surgery is the most efficient answer to this problem as it can result in tremendous net savings ...
one might imagine that in a hospital, when someone undergoes surgery, there are a number of things added to the bill. A surgery ch...
Medicare Part D has the ability to impact millions of individuals who are currently enrolled in Medicare and who were unable to ge...