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Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists

This paper considers the distinctions between non-physician practitioners and how these distinctions might affect Medicare reimbur...

Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, Power Point presentation

This paper presents the speaker notes for a Power Point project, khspnmedD.ppt, that describes the gap in prescription drug covera...

TAKING A LOOK AT U.S. HEALTHCARE REFORM

Examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the economy, as well as well as discussing the history of its passage. There are...

Evidence-Based Nursing Practice and Technology

This research paper consists of a longer version of khebptech.doc. The paper offers additional information on the impact that EBP ...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

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....

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...

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...

Healthcare Reform and the Affordable Care Act

This research paper presents an overall perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act (ACA). The writer covers the...

Resource Management and its Impact on Public Health

This paper emphasizes the importance of resource management and how it impacts human health. The poor are often harder hit by poo...

Medicare Donut Hole, An Overview

This research paper offers an overview of the gap in prescription drug coverage that is a component of Medicare Part D. Ten pages ...

Tired Nurses

The organizational behavior problem selected for this analysis is nurse fatigue. Thousands of nurses arrive at work in a state of ...

Religious Beliefs, Importance to Nursing

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

Sixteen Microorganisms and Their Impact on Human Health

This paper provides a species overview, diagnostic techniques, and recommended treatment for Staphylococcus aureus, Mycobacterium ...

Nursing Error and Understaffing

This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...

Presentation for the Implementation of a Fall Prevention Strategy

The paper is a presentation designed to introduce and explain a new fall prevention policy for a home care nursing agency. The pr...

Personal Crisis and Living Will

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects the importance of a crisis management process that would impact the decision-making ...

Medicare Part D and Insurance Planning

most of the differences between them rest on the types of drugs covered under each specific plan. The mechanics of each plan are ...

Intervention Focus Impact of Health Promotion

to side effects, inasmuch as the theory is based much more upon values over and above evidence (Seedhouse, 1997). That adol...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...