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Reports on Medicare

Activities performed by the Department of Health and Human Services are discussed in comprehensive semiannual reports that are aut...

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...

Nursing Informatics, Meaningful Use

This research paper discusses the Medicaid and Medicare incentive program within the context of meaningful use and nursing informa...

The United States - A Reluctant Welfare State

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

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 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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Medical Coding and Billing

for those over 65. For many people, it is their only means of obtaining a doctors care. This paper discusses Medicare as well as m...

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...

MEDICARE MODERNIZATION - AN OVERVIEW

Medicare Part D has the ability to impact millions of individuals who are currently enrolled in Medicare and who were unable to ge...

Australia and Medicare

the poorest communities, in terms of income level, have the lowest standard of health: a group which practises low-risk behaviours...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Research Study Development on Hospice Care and Its Medicare Benefits

America, not the least of which is hospice care. Even funding sources of the magnitude of Medicare and private insurers have come ...