State Children's Health Insurance Program

affordable health insurance, improving the quality of health care and health insurance, regulating the health insurance industry, and reducing health care spending in the US." Yet five years since the implementation of Obamacare, 30.1 million people lost there private insurance,because it did not meet the 10 essential health benefits. Another 3-5 million people will lose there company sponsored health insurance, since companies find it cheaper to pay the penalty than buying there employees…

as there is continued demand for insurance, increases fall on the consumer, limited health benefits from employers due to affordability, and taxes continue to be raised to offset the rising costs (Shi & Singh, 2015). People are always in need of health insurance and therefore insurance companies may take advantage of this. Employers are not able to afford to continued cost of insurance as premiums rise which reflect on consumers not being able to afford insurance as these increases fall on the…

disabled individuals, providing health care LPNs, CNAs and companions to assist with the day to day needs. The services include the provision of personal hygiene, and forwarding communications and information to professional caregivers such as nurses, doctors or therapists when necessary. Company Ownership/Legal Entity Homecare It Is, LLC is owned 100% by Alfred C. Porter, Jr. and is registered in the state of Texas as an LLC, preparing to provide non-medical at home health care services using…

more comprehensive visit that clearly did not occur. Two explanations - an honest mistake or you were intentionally overcharged by upcoding. Upcoding? What’s that? Upcoding is the deceitful medical billing practice that costs you money and perhaps health as well. It refers to a practice, in which a provider bills a payer, whether private, Medicaid or Medicare utilizing a CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) code for a more costly administration than what was performed. In other words, it’s a…

I agree that there will always be health disparities. Even if everyone has the same access to health care, there will always be those who do not take care of themselves or who end up with diseases that are out of their control. It is sad that only those with money get the proper health care needed regardless of the outcome. The same is true when I was growing up in Jamaica, if citizens did not have finances they were not able to go to the doctor. Many have died because they could not afford…

Healthcare in Canada is governed by Canada Health Act of 1984. The federal government is responsible for funding and facilitating data gathering, research into regulating prescription drugs and public health while continuing to support the nationwide dimensions of healthcare. A CHI (Canada Health Infoway) report estimated that provincial and territorial government…

you have affordable access to reliable health care. We offer a comprehensive list of health insurance options, allowing you to find the health insurance plan that helps your family. Without proper health insurance, you may have to cover the costs of expensive medical bills on your own. We may be able to help you get the care you deserve and help you cover the cost of your medical bills. Medical Plans We know sorting through the requirements for health insurance can be nerve-wracking, which is…

The state of our health care is in jeopardy under President Trump. The new TrumpCare bill passed barely through the house recently amidst strong opposition from both parties. A lot of America, especially elderly and poor people, are feeling a tremendous amount of insecurity and fear about the new proposals. Outrageous premiums or even being rejected by insurance companies because of a long list of pre-existing conditions would probably become commonplace. Proponents of the repeal and replace…

Parkview Health Systems settled a case for potential violations of the HIPAA privacy rule with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Parkview is a nonprofit health care system that provides community-based health care services to individuals in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. On June 4, 2009, Parkview employees, with notice that the physician was not at home, left 71 cardboard boxes of these medical records unattended and accessible to unauthorized…

United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world but at the same time it has one of the worst health care systems of the first world countries. This condition improved in March 23, 2010 when President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This is the first regulatory reform made in US health care since 1965. The goal of this reform is to make more accessible medicine and health care to all those people who do not have enough income to pay the expensive cost of health…