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Payment Transfers in Welfare States

This paper compares the United States to other countries of the world with regard to payment transfers within the welfare system w...

Fraud Involving Medicaid and Medicare

In ten pages this paper examines what is being done to prevent instances of fraud in Medicaid and Medicare. There are 12 sources ...

Democrats and Republicans on Medicare

In five pages this paper examines the 1995 and 1996 time period in a consideration of Medicare and the continuing political debate...

Entitlement, Autonomy, and Medicare Issues

In ten pages this paper examines the future costs involved in Medicare and the need for reform program applications. Eleven sourc...

Medicare and Medicaid Options' Evaluation

In ten pages Medicaid and Medicare options are evaluated with several policy issues discussed and an examination of Kingston's the...

Overview of Health Care Costs

In ten pages this research paper examines the costs of health care at consumer, private, state, and federal levels with a consider...

Memo for the President to Congress

In two pages this paper discusses the U.S. President's request for a memo to be written to urge Congress not to cut from Medicaid ...

Prescription Drug Costs and Medicare

to be able to liberalize their policies, something that has made life difficult for many people, and not just seniors or the disab...

Proposal Memorandum for Medicare Policy Change

debt while meeting operational overhead expenses. As the federal government seeks to gain the benefits of increasing qualit...

Medicare Managed Care and Impact of Macroeconomics

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

History and Future of HMOs

also had increased dramatically: by 1994, that percentage of GNP had increased to 15 percent and had topped the $1 trillion mark ...

Medicare and Altering its Health Care Effects

influences the degree to which health care costs rise in that it establishes what it will and will not pay for goods and services....

Home Health Service Provider Business Plan

or may not have a market, home health care is a service that always has a market of some size. The business is a proven one, one ...

Long Term Healthcare Evolution

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

Senior Citizens and Public Policy

forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a variety o...

Deborah Stone's Policy Paradox Analyzed

back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...

Prescription Drugs and Medicare Controversy

that a means test would be supported by Democrats but that is far from the case. The article points out that Medicare is embraced ...

Abuse and Fraud in Medicare

American Medical Colleges, American Medical Assn. et al. v. United States), which alleged the government is conducting illegal Med...

Mobility Scooters and Health Care Policy

electric scooter to virtually anyone over the age of 65, CMS current position is that no individual will be approved to receive on...

Budgeting for Healthcare and the Impact of Government Regulation

that health insurance is simply a fringe benefit as opposed to a fundamental right (1994). Another issue that comes into play is...

Government Organization and Its Sociological Influences

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...

Health Care Economics and the Impact of Medicare

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

Fraudulent Billing and Medicare

frameworks include the "Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1998" (Texas Le...

Fraud and Medicare

$3 billion annually, that is about 10 percent of all claims (Albert, 2004). There are a number of laws that specifically address ...

Fraud in Medicare Deterrence and the False Claims Act

payments is more lucrative then the financial "risk" of being caught. Like any crime, if the law is lax in either the presence of...

PPS Health Care Payment Systems

The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...

Pneumonia and Tool for Data Collection

"yes" response to a question requiring clarification takes the user directly to the point where that clarification can be entered....

Medicare, Health Care Issues, and the Presidential Election of 2004

that gives patients more options while maintaining fewer requirements (McKelvey, 2004). It is something that should strengthen the...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

The Australian Health Care System: A Comparison with the U.S. System

government reimburses thirty percent of the insurance premiums paid by the patient. In addition to those noted above, the...