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EMRs, An IT Trend in Health Care Record-Keeping

This research paper pertains to electronic medical record (EMR) systems and how this constitutes a significant trend in IT. Eight ...

Health Care Seeking Behaviors

Many elements converge to determine whether or not an individual will see a physician or go to a hospital, or avoid the system ent...

Medical Insurance - Appeal Processes and Potential Claim Errors

a minimum value hurdle met, so avoid wasting time on small claims. In Medicare cases where there is a denial as a result of a mi...

Hospital-Acquired Infections and the Vulnerability of Medicare

costs to the tune of more than $10,000 dollars and also have to stay in the hospital an average of 3 to 4 days longer than they wo...

MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BRING

SECURITY Considering what will happen to the millions of Social Security recipients if current issues are not ironed out, t...

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 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...

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 ...

The Environment of Modern Healthcare and Ambulatory Payment Systems

This fifty page paper provides an extensive examination of ambulatory payment systems development in the environment of modern hea...

Budget Surplus, Medicaid and Medicare

In five pages this paper examines the present system of Medicaid and Medicare in a discussion of the need for change, long term re...

Medicare and Pharmaceutical Benefits

In ten pages this paper discusses Medicare and the financial problems associated with supplying pharmaceutical benefits across the...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

Abuse and Fraud in Medicare

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

Long Term Healthcare Evolution

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

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...

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...