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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...

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 and Medicaid Costs and the Impacts of Senior Citizen Care, AIDS, and Teen Pregnancy

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how Medicare and Medicaid costs are impacted by senior citizen health care, AIDS treatment a...

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...

Medicare, Fee for Service, and Managed Care

In fifteen pages this paper examines Medicare in an assessment of fee for services vs. managed care plans. Fifteen sources are ci...

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...

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...

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 Pharmaceutical Benefits

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

Abuse and Fraud in Medicare

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

Health Care Economics and Funding in the United States - A History

the consideration of dozens of microeconomic systems that operate as a function of the national macroeconomic picture. It is often...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Fraudulent Billing and Medicare

frameworks include the "Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1998" (Texas Le...

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 ...