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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 ...

Medicare Managed Care and Impact of Macroeconomics

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

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....

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...

Baby Boomers and Medicare Problems

In five pages this paper examines the statistics regarding the generation of Baby Boomers and how this has affected Medicaid and M...

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...

Medicare Program Implications and Managed Health Care

In twelve pages this paper examines how Medicare affects managed care programs. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

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...

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...

Entitlement, Autonomy, and Medicare Issues

In ten pages this paper examines the future costs involved in Medicare and the need for reform program applications. Eleven sourc...

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...

Overview of Health Care Costs

In ten pages this research paper examines the costs of health care at consumer, private, state, and federal levels with a consider...

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 ...

Reports on Medicare

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

Health Care Reimbursement, Its Future

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

HOSPITAL AND HEALTHCARE DISCUSSION

impact on changes in medical treatment practice. She notes that the introduction of Medicare "appears to be associated with an inc...

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...

Prescriptions and the Elderly

A large proportion of our elderly take multiple medications for multiple conditions. This has led to a situation known as polyphar...

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 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...

An Overview of Medicaid Eligibility

state to state and from group to group. There are special rules for those who live in nursing homes and for disabled children livi...

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...

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...

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...

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...