President Donald Trump Essay
Medicare and Medicaid Services; Don McGahn as White House Counsel; K.T. McFarland as Deputy National Security Advisor; Betsy DeVos as… Continue Reading...
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Medicare and Medicaid Services; Don McGahn as White House Counsel; K.T. McFarland as Deputy National Security Advisor; Betsy DeVos as… Continue Reading...
the HCFA (Health Care Financing Administration, now Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) declared its intent of redirecting PROs’ Medicare efforts to system-based programs for quality improvement, in direct and voluntary collaboration with healthcare providers (McGlynn et al, 2003). Types of Care-Delivery Organizations and Issues They Face Large general hospitals and other such healthcare organizations offer a broad array of services like acute care which stretch across several care continuum areas. Meanwhile, hospices and other healthcare organizations that are specialized offer only certain services covering a distinct area of the care continuum. Hospitals can be specialized as well (e.g.,… Continue Reading...
documentations. The Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) together with the American Medical Association developed the E/M guidelines. So far, two versions of the guidelines have been released. The first one was released in 1995 while the second one was released in 1997. The E/M guidelines outline what is required for individual E/M codes given the extent of documentation of three significant components. Generally, E/M codes that attract the highest fees such as initial visits and consultations require more thorough documentation than the other codes that attract much lower fees such as hospital… Continue Reading...
Older Americans Act (OAA) was first passed in 1965, alongside Medicare and Medicaid. Whereas Medicare and Medicaid offered extended insurance benefits through the federal government, the OAA established "the foundation for a system of services and supports that enables millions of older adults in this country to continue to live independently as they age," ("The Older Americans Act: Aging Well Since 1965," (The Older Americans Act: Aging Well Since 1965," n.d.). Along with its federal provisions, the OAA freed up grant money for the states to develop " community planning and social services, research and development projects, and training personnel… Continue Reading...
1965, the U.S. provided Medicare and Medicaid to health care patients whose low income meant they were unable to… Continue Reading...
patient trust in the healthcare team and perceptions of institutional quality of care (Patient Safety Network, 2018). Insurance providers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services do not reimburse hospitals for the “additional costs associated with patient falls,” (Patient Safety Network, 2018, p. 1). Given the tremendous ethical and financial costs associated with preventable falls, hospitals like this one need a comprehensive and immutable fall prevention strategy with the means by which to maintain a culture of safety throughout the organization. Causes of the Problem Falls are complex incidents, with several interrelated variables impacting patient risk. Patient factors in falls include age, muscle weakness or orthopedic issues, perceptual impairments, medications that may… Continue Reading...
higher” premiums and “much worse” coverage (p. 1). Obamacare also strengthened and improved Medicare and Medicaid, and vastly increased the number of all Americans who were able to access the healthcare system (“Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Good for America?” 2015). Obamacare offered a state-sponsored federal healthcare insurance plan in lieu of the inefficient and unethical nongroup market coverage, to help underinsured or uninsured Americans receive affordable coverage. Obamacare also ensured that insurers could not discriminate based on prexisting conditions, another strong reason why mandated insurance is preferable to a more market-driven system as the one in place prior… Continue Reading...
reimbursement has increasingly been tied to care quality and health care outcomes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have particularly been changing the way hospitals are reimbursed, with hospitals that deliver high quality care and report better health outcomes getting higher reimbursements than those that perform poorly. This has led to increasing prominence of the pay-for-performance approach. Under this approach, hospitals that report greater patient satisfaction, reduced error rates, lower readmission rates, and higher recovery rates for chronic illness get higher reimbursements than their poorly-performing counterparts. The implication is that health care organizations must pay greater attention to performance, especially in terms of… Continue Reading...
