Medicaid

with ample quantitative facts and figures. In his March 22nd column on the misdirection of the GOP’s proposed healthcare plan, he uses relevant statistics about who uses medicare. To support his claim that there is little to be gained by linking Medicaid with…

just a few years; the amending in Social Security System of medicare to provide basic hospital insurance to most Americans age 65 and older, and medicaid…

thoughts, with scholarly support, with your colleagues in this class. How do these issues affect us, as healthcare providers, and our community members? People are living longer with many co-morbidities and the Affordable Care Act involves Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and preventative measures improving quality of care with cost control. This includes a collaboration of care from the interdisciplinary team to give the highest quality of care in clinical care settings and preventing…

estimated shortage of 91,000 physicians, split about evenly between primary care physicians and specialists. The impact of this shortage is likely to be more acute among Medicaid beneficiaries due to geographic misalignment between low-income communities and physician practice locations and low physician participation in Medicaid. In 1959 the US Surgeon General declared a physician shortage. After a difficult battle Eugene Stead, MD tasked himself with creating an official schooling for…

remains inadequate, and the pervasiveness of the Alzheimer’s, is widely misunderstood. Alzheimer's currently costs the United States some $214 billion annually, according to federal government estimates. Care of the victims will cost Medicare and Medicaid $150 billion in the current fiscal year; the remaining costs will fall largely on patients and their families. The demography of aging predicts that older adults, who now number 40.4 million, may number…

While the United States has been known as the land of opportunity inexpensive, quality healthcare has been an unobtainable dream for many Americans. When compared to other industrialized counties, The United States’ healthcare is more expensive, less efficient and more difficult to obtain (Mahon & Fox, 2014). Americans pay nearly twice as much for their healthcare, however the quality of care they obtain is only average. It is these troubling statistics that has lead for a push to monitor health…

In a review of benefits offered by Blue Cross/ Blue Shield (BC/BS), after doing business with them for several years, this insurance company continues to be a sound investment for our commercial employer-based healthcare needs. I have been tasked to research any significant developments of BC/BS, and the impact and trends regarding healthcare quality, access, technology, and reimbursement. In essence, give my concerns about the health insurance they offer and what the future of the company…

Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) experienced rapid growth in the 1980s and 1990s as an effort to curtail the rapid growth in healthcare spending. The strategy was that patients would be assigned a primary care physician to act as a gatekeeper, and coordinate all of their healthcare needs. And as a result of this approach, less expensive services would be utilized, and less duplication would occur. This is the primary difference between the HMO and ACO model, as the new ACO models don’t…

with understanding, interpreting and implementing procedures in accordance with state and federal laws. This involves privacy, patient services, efficiency standards and technology regulations,. It also involves ensuring compliance with Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act. Compliance technicians play a key role in reducing expenses and increasing affordable health care to patients. Most compliance technicians have a bachelor's degree related to health care. What Education…

By the year 2000 forty-eight million people did not have health insurance coverage despite Medicare and Medicaid. There are differences of opinion as to whether or not it is the governments responsibility to influence or provide healthcare to Americans. Some believe that it is the guaranteed right of every american to be provided with affordable insurance by our government. Some believe that our government should leave that up to the individual and to be sought in a free market of their choice.…