Ambulatory care

The cost of health care in the U.S is considered the highest in the world today. While excellent medical care is available in the United States, health care economics and the service delivery system present many challenges for the consumer and practitioner similarly. Throughout the world, the United States has many people swimming in debt because of the cost of healthcare. Healthcare spending has increased by 933.5 billion between 1995 and 2014.Concerns over health care cost are an issue that is…

For inpatient care organizations, proper and accurate clinical documentation has always been important. In today’s shifting healthcare landscape, with the implementation of the prospective payment system, coded data has taken on a greater significance and became a mechanism for reimbursement, quality measure reporting, and profiling has become even more of a strategic imperative than perhaps ever before. Documentation is essential for patient care, not because only it validates the care given,…

Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2014). The ACA has had significant impacts on health care by requiring health care providers to be completely digital to allow for better access to patient histories and expanding coverage to those who may previously not have had access to healthcare (USDHHS, 2015). The current law is trying to improve quality and lower health care costs while providing better access to health care (USDHHS, 2014). While the law seems to be working well for patients, there are…

000 children with special health care needs (CSHCN) transition from pediatric to adult care in the United States every year. To ease the change, transitional care is utilized to provide support needed through the use of provider, parent and patient education. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the American College of Physicians (ACP), as well as a Healthy People 2020 recommend the use of transitional care programs (2002). Despite…

The mainframe of this advancement lies with the system capability of the internet that offers practical approaches, especially in the collection of data and their corresponding analysis. The integrated solution is also benefited in which the health care professional, centres, clinical research organisation is made connected with networking. Likewise, the internal departments, administration, and responsible professional are also…

There a plenty of reimbursement models. Not all reimbursement models fit each health care situation or health care setting. Sometimes reimbursement arrangements or models with providers include some combination of different repayment methods. There are key differences in each reimbursement model. Each reimbursement model has types of care that are parallel or work together. According to Kongstvedt (2009), “At a simplistic level there are two basic ways to compensate open panel physicians for…

“Primary Care Training and the Evolving Healthcare System”, Lauren A. Peccoralo, Kathryn Callhan, Rachel Stark, and Linda V. DeCherrie look into the impact of the Affordable Care Act towards primary-care practice, as well as explore the various programs created to influence the recruitment of medical students into the primary-care sector. The article also provides recommended preparations in training to improve the practice of primary-care professionals to efficiently deliver health care…

If I could have any career in the world, it would be a Medical Billing and Coder. I like to help people. I would like to work, at Memorial University in Savannah Georgia. Medical Coding and Billing can help doctors by handling all the paperwork that should be submitted to the insurance companies. They can also help by sending medical bills out to all the patients that have been seen by the doctor. Medical billing and coding is the act of coding the diagnosis and procedures for the healthcare…

and 87% of people who selected a marketplace plan got financial assistance.” ObamaCare, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is a health reform law signed on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama. ObamaCare is a very beneficial thing for America because uninsured Americans get free or low cost health insurance, Americans still get care even if they are sick or have a preexisting condition, and Americans get insurance regardless of age and gender. First of all,…

Innovation and show that it can be a very good model to implement in Maryland. Both Maryland and Oregon can benefit from a support from each other in the improvement of Medicaid. Summary Medicaid in the United States can be described as a social health care program for families and persons with inadequate resources and low income (Institute for Healthcare Improvement). Maryland is operating a state program referred to as Maryland Health Benefits Exchange, which is meant to expand Medicaid…