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healthcare treatments. Medicare As GAH/CC exclusively serves senior patients, the strategic financial team recognizes the sole reimbursement source of this specific demographic will exist as the Federal Medicare health insurance. Since 1965, Medicare, the nation’s largest health insurance program, has provided health coverage for people, age 65 and over, with fixed payments for diagnostic and/or treatment procedures. After various federal payment methods occurred over the years, Medicare…

result in increased costs and not improve health outcomes. The pros of having a policy geared towards rescue/ treatment is having state and federal officials can reduce the burden on emergency department by expanding patient access to private health insurance, separating emergency services planning from hospital planning, promoting private-sector alternatives for urgent care, and freeing hospitals to specialize in nonemergency medical care, (O’Shea, 2007). By implementing a policy with these…

federal poverty level (CMS.gov, 2013). The new federal poverty level is beneficial is the sense that it is covering a wider population of uninsured throughout the nation. This would be perfect if the nation accepted this as a creditable and honorable insurance to partake in. Medicaid users have been treated poorly and undeserving for decades, but ACA was…

1. a) Nursing informatics is used to inform about what nurses do and how nurses use information to make decisions for patients. Nurses use EHRs to manage patient information (Pritchard, 2015). Nursing informatics allows nurses to remain interconnected with health care professionals from other disciplines, so that information is seamlessly exchanged between nurses and the rest of the health care team (Pritchard, 2015). Nursing informatics is also used to personalize patient care and to inform…

Many are affected by lack of availability, high cost, and lack of insurance. Health care access is a major step in obtaining the American dream, because receiving quality care service leads to a healthier life of individuals and families in the community. In the area of Aurora, Kaiser Permanente provides health care benefits for its employees. Benefits offered are; life insurance, disability coverage, health and dental coverage, and many other services. While there are many…

in other OECD countries and follow strict regulations to cut costs. In addition, medical malpractice cases in the US make risk-averse people go through extra tests and scans, also known as “defensive medicine” (Ginsburg 2012: 19). The costs of insurance premiums against the malpractice and lawsuits are already a great weight on health expenses, and the defensive medicine costs also contributed to it. Moreover, fraud cases in Medicare and Medicaid cause an extra spending and waste each year…

The debate about providing health insurance for everyone is a heated debate. Personally, I do not think that people have a right to health insurance, but everyone should have an opportunity to gain health insurance, if they prefer. The previous system of delivering healthcare was in desperate need of reformation, but the approach of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is too drastic and has strained an already stressed system. As a country, programs should be put into place to help the disabled,…

choices, and passing information to younger generations, which also affect spending, falls squarely on the publics shoulders. Transparency from healthcare providers, letting the patient know how much something is going to cost them with or without insurance upfront, is an invaluable resource when it comes to maintaining…

Issues in Health Care Careers 2 These days there are many different factors that are effecting the Health Care System, and most of them are not for the best. Even with the Affordable Care Act and the health insurance companies there are still five major problems that the system still faces and are dragging down the system as a whole. The first one is too much unnecessary care, avoidable harm to patients, billions of dollars are being wasted, perverse incentives in how we pay for care, and…

profitable gain to employers and their shareholders, thus taking away the basic American dream from the reach of the workers. The new corporate America idea is to get more out of their employees for less money and benefits, “Employers saw health insurance as an inconsequential component of the overall labor costs established through collective bargaining”, (McLaughlin & McLaughlin, 2014 pg. 62). In essence the old notion of working hard, showing loyalty to your employer in exchange for pay and…