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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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

Nursing Informatics, Meaningful Use

This research paper discusses the Medicaid and Medicare incentive program within the context of meaningful use and nursing informa...

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...

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...

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...

Health Care Reimbursement, Its Future

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

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 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...

Factors Affecting Health Care

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

Federal Health Care Legislation

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Medicare Program Part D

income which is far from adequate, they sometimes have to literally make the decision whether to eat or buy the drugs which have b...

The United States - A Reluctant Welfare State

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...