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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...

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 ...

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....

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...

Health Care Reimbursement, Its Future

This research paper discusses reform trends pertaining to hospital reimbursement. Several new Medicare rules and initiatives are d...

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 ...

Changes in Health Care Legislation

Obamacare has consumed discussions on American health care legislation in the last years. Obamacare will have significant impacts...

Policies and Health Care

This essay is about proposed policies and legislation that addressed the nursing shortage. It also brings in proposed changed to M...

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...

Heath Insurance Coverage and Bariatric Surgery

the long run, providing bariatric surgery is the most efficient answer to this problem as it can result in tremendous net savings ...

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 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...

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...

Medicare and Pharmaceutical Benefits

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

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...

The Australian Health Care System: A Comparison with the U.S. System

government reimburses thirty percent of the insurance premiums paid by the patient. In addition to those noted above, the...

Federal Health Care Legislation

included doctors, hospitals, lab work, dentistry and nursing (The history of Medicare). In addition, medical insurance for the nee...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

Factors Affecting Health Care

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

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...

Australia and Medicare

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

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...

Issues in Health Care

to focus more upon running smooth production rather than customer needs. By skewing the focus in this way, health care organizati...

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....