Medicare

In the U.S. health care expenditures are increasing rapidly with no signs of slowing down. According to Zerwekh (2015) “Currently, the united States is spending 18% of its income on health care” (p.358). There are many different intrinsic and extrinsic factors that have contributed to the uprising cost of health care including, characteristics of the population, employer-paid health insurance, demand for health care, prescription drug cost, availability of technology, and workforce costs…

A physical therapist has a unique center that is best classified as patient focused. Physical therapy practice is also associated with a wide range of other providers or clinicians within health care organizations. There are different types of writing that express the information of ethics, which incorporates clinical obligations, duties and ethical philosophical principles. However, there is little information about the ethical issues that physical therapist may face, and how and why they…

Heart failure is a major and growing public health problem. Despite advances in the care of patients with heart failure, many patients are readmitted to the hospital due to frequent exacerbation from poor compliance with treatments. Many home care agencies have implemented tele-monitoring systems for heart failure patients. Home-based tele-monitoring is a therapeutic tool used to aid in the reduction of readmissions to hospitals as well as help reduce medical costs overall. Thus improving the…

Your knowledge specific to recent healthcare seems to be comprehensive especially as it ties to the notion of universal healthcare and its current form as the ACA. I think we have to go back a bit further though based on the question of the evolution of healthcare over the pat 10,000 years and how the Greeks and the Egyptians affected how our healthcare system looks today. Hippocrates for example was known for his documented his medical practices so that others could use his data to learn from…

Select is accredited by the Joint Commission (JCAHO), licensed by the State of Mississippi, and Medicare certified. The JCAHO has a set of performance standards that must be met by the organization that it accredits and their accreditation is a nationwide symbol of quality showing an organization’s commitment to meeting those standards. As required…

The CMS comprise of four main programs that were created to help Americans such as Medicare that primary use for assistance of senior citizens and the disable. Medicaid aims to provide health care services for people that are indigent and who income is significant under the poverty level. Another program that CMS governs the Children’s…

the housing and mortgage arena, the act amends the federal criminal code to include appropriations to the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute false or fraudelent claims for payment by the federal governement. This includes defrauding both Medicare and Medicaid programs and expands the False Claims Act (FCA) (Congress, 2009). The bill received support from the Obama Administration, the FBI, and the OIG, although there is some debate whether an organization must knowingly retain…

In 2009, income security expenditure constitutes 47 percent of the U.S. GDP and 44 percent of the income security expenditures were spent for Social Security and 28 percent was for Medicare (Tucker, 2011). As the population age increased, it is clear that the Social Security claims would increase and the need for Medicare as well. This trend would be continuing as more of the baby boomers are retiring. According to the Social Security Administration, in 1950, 8 percent of the total population…

Over the years, the use of diagnostic imaging has helped the detection of many diseases and prevented patients from going under the knife. However, diagnostic imaging has also recently asserted public concern about its misuse. Most of the attention has focused on Computed Tomography, or CT Scans. The centralized focus revolves around the fear expressed in patients whom receive CT Scans and the exposure to radiation that they are subjected to which could led to cancer. Even though the chance is…

The Impact of Radiology in the Medical Profession Sir William Cecil Dampier once stated, "Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think" (382). Radiology is one of these great discoveries that has had a major impact on the medical profession. Along with other forms of medical imaging, radiology has changed how diseases can be measured, managed, diagnosed, and treated. The various modalities of radiology provide for clearer and more efficient results, less…