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Acme Hospital Information Technology Project Plan Synthesis

cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...

Medicare Program Part D

income which is far from adequate, they sometimes have to literally make the decision whether to eat or buy the drugs which have b...

An Article on PT's Medicare Audits Summarized

billing stipulations. Also in 2004, spending on services rendered by physical therapists (PTs) increased dramatically. Wallace lis...

Medicare Crime Deterrence and the FCA

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...

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...

Formal Plan of Compliance and Medicare Fraud

This is one of the largest settlements reached in the many similar cases that have come under review. Aside from the fraud involv...

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

Health and the Impacts of Psychosocial Factors

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the impact of psychosocial factors upon health. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Human Health and Impact of the Environment

et. al. (2000), for example, reemphasizes the importance of links made in the 1970s between male infertility and exposure to pesti...

Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

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 ...

Fraudulent Billing and Medicare

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

Health Impact of Sugar in Infant and Toddler Diets

is nonstop crying, usually caused by gas cramps (Does Your Baby Need a Diet?, 1993, p. 9). When the sugar in these infants formul...

Energy Crisis

send oil prices soaring to unprecedented levels" (Leeb and Strathy, 2006, p. 19). The end results may well be the end of civiliza...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

The Political and Financial Impacts of Health Coverage

separation of Medicaid eligibility from assistance programs. In fact, this act was designed to increase the access for low-income...

The Psychological Impact of Separation from their Parents on Foster Children

happening (Simms, Dubowitz and Szilagyi, 2000). Even though each case if different, there are several common reactions when chil...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Health And Safety In The Workplace: Technology's Impact

the vast array of Internet sites that readily provide ways in which companies can remain compliant with all the ever-changing rule...

Impact Of Workplace Violence On The Promotion Of Safety And Health

broad definition of workplace violence, plus implementation of plans to deal with violent behavior, can provide substantial practi...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

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...

Treating Osteoporosis

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

Medicare/Medicaid Fraud

doctor is simply unaware of changes in the coding system, but, for the purposes of this paper, it will be assumed that the errors ...

MEDICARE DONUT HOLE - BACKGROUND AND SOME SOLUTIONS

In 2003 the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (also known as MMA) passed amid a lot of hoopla and cel...

Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

Smoking and its Impacts to Human Health

hazard and choosing to smoke is the risk factor. Being exposed to secondhand smoke is a risk factor as well. Just because tobac...

Caring in Nursing Theory

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

Tobacco and its Unacceptable Impacts to Human Health

Tobacco should be regarded as one of the most dangerous drugs currently being utilized in contemporary society....

Medical Coding Procedures

one might imagine that in a hospital, when someone undergoes surgery, there are a number of things added to the bill. A surgery ch...