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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...

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...

Causes and Prevention of Nosocomial Infections

In five pages this report discusses nosocomial infections that can occur in a clinical or hospital setting in a consideration of c...

Presentation on Canada's Hamilton Health Services

allows justification for greater technological expenditures as well, because the patient base is not limited only to the immediate...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Research Study Proposal/Hand washing

to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...

Assessing Risk in Critical Care

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the problem of infections contracted in the hospital setting and considers the i...

MRSA Article Critiques

This paper critiques three articles that focus on the control, treatment and prevention of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant...

PRESSURE ULCERS, HAC AND PREVENTION

which to do this. Pressure Ulcers and the Hospital Acquired Condition The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as w...

New Performance Measure for Hospitals

There is a new method of assessment for the performance of hospitals. It is national and standardized which will allow consumers a...

Increasng Sustainability of Medicaid and Medicare

It is public knowledge that the Medicare and Medicare programs are going broke. They are not sustainable with current expenses. It...

Economy Needs in 2008

Founded in 1971 and known for its rabid cost-consciousness and sound management, Southwest Airlines leading claim to fame has been...

Establishing a Price for MRI Use

the area of the country. Medicare pays $650 toward the price of an MRI scan in Sans Roentgens area. The machine cost figure to b...

Impact Of Laws On Budgeting - Health Care

trillion over that same period. Notice Moffits (2006) words: "Under current law." Moffit is referring to the benefits provided t...

Pharmacies and Medicare's Part D Impact

require under the new program, still not sure about who is eligible, having not yet been assigned to a plan or having proof of enr...

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...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

Lessons from the Past and Medicare

We must use a community approach to Medicares problem, a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates not only medical issues but ...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

Regulatory Agencies and Medicare Prospective Payment System

that Park Medical had hired a contractor, Quorum, to conduct the program. Shortly after agreeing to pay the large settlement, Par...

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...

Medicare + Program, Two Viewpoints

to the expected results of any options in regards to the future of the program. DeParle (2002) introduces the readers to the intr...

Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and Medicare Prospective Payment System

In a paper consisting of forty five pages this paper examines the implementation and beneficiary impact of Medicare's PPS as dicta...

1997's Balanced Budget Act and Medicare Prospective Payment System

a study can be conducted and makes conclusions based on the expected results. Logic suggests that if caps are placed on certain ki...

Information on Nursing Homes

This paper consists of five pages and considers three issues as they pertain to nursing homes including nursing rates of pay betwe...

Nursing Homes and Senior Citizen Infections

In eight pages this research paper discusses the serious problem of controlling senior citizen infection in a nursing home setting...

Proteus Vulgaris

2007). Increased risk to the bacilli is found in patients which have suffered from redcurrant infections, those with urethral inst...

Antimicrobial Therapy, an Overview

This research paper describes the categories used to classify antimicrobial agents, the differences between viral and bacterial in...

CAUTIs and Prevention

This research paper concerns the problem of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and the prevalence of this nosoc...