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Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

Managed Care Organizations and Psychological Services

In twenty pages this paper examines mental health services as they have increasingly become a part of the managed care landscape. ...

The Use of a Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Health Care Industry

defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...

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...

Financial Statements: Helping To Evaluate A Hospital's Financial Viability

having done so. Performance measures in general help to provide a composite of the respective hospitals financial viability, howe...

HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

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....

Health Care Costs and the Impact of Medicare

resolve. Our nations seniors are responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased nee...

Reform of Medicare and Health Care Policy

resolve. Our nations seniors are responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased nee...

Advantages of Implemeing Health and Wellness Programs

such a program. Who Initiates and Leads the Program The human resource department would be the group to initiate such a project....

AN EXPLANATION OF CAUSALITY CONTINUUM

example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...

AIDS, Health Care Privatization, and International Expectations

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES AND HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

Health Care Pricing and Costs

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

Commissioning a Health Care Facility

few points of the requirements of HVAC design and execution in the new health care facility, but they demonstrate the complexity i...

Aspects Of Universal Health Care In U.S.

Canadians must also pay for dental and vision costs. Dental problems can lead to other health problems and diseases. The desired...

Health Care Insurance And The Unemployed

does. Literature Search By November 2008, there were more than 10.3 million people unemployed in the United States (Families USA...

Comparison of the Health Care Systems in Canada and America

In twelve pages this research paper contrasts and compares the advantages of Canada's public approach to health care as opposed to...

An Overview of the Health Care System in the United States

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

Defeat of the The Boren Medical Reform Bill

In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...

Future Leadership in Health Care

In ten pages this paper examines health care changes and future leadership implications with topics including globalization and HM...

The National Health Care System in Canada

Fifteen pages and 14 sources. This paper relates the fact of the increasing discontentment with the universal health care system ...

American System of Health Care

In seven pages an examination of the U.S. health care system includes discussion of general health care issues of coverage, physic...

Long Term Health Care and Quality Management

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the importance of quality management in long term health care in a consideration that includ...

Health Care Policy and Influential Factors

Paul Starrs (1983) book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, provides insightful vision into the changes that had occu...

Home Health Care Marketing

In five pages this paper examines how to market home health care with a local marketer interviewed and a community facility that f...

An Overview of Clinical Pathways

Clinical Pathways can be important to saving the health care system of this country, according to this paper. It gives an overview...

Health Care and Poverty in Urban America

This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Nor...