Features of Third-Party Payers: How reimbursement and coding affects the healthcare system The healthcare services market is a very unique entity from the perspective of an economist. Unlike conventional markets, where consumers can very easily com Continue Reading...
Telenursing and Home Healthcare: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Telenursing In the 1960s, Virginia Anderson, one of the most influential nurses in history, defined the unique functions of a nurse as that of assisting those who are sick as well Continue Reading...
Health Care Infrastructure The Cooperative Health Care Clinic made by the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is an illustration of a pioneering program for healthcare beneficiaries sponsored by a managed care plan. Under this program, the clinic employs Continue Reading...
Healthcare Finance Government rules: In United States the Congress had passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 or MMA and with this imposed a stoppage for 18 months on the starting of new physician owned spe Continue Reading...
Universal Healthcare Universal Health Care for America: How a Socialist Model Can Work in a Democratic Country The possibility of a universal health care system in the United States seems distant at times. Yet as more and more youths graduate coll Continue Reading...
d). The health care industry is heavily regulated and has several special risk areas that need to be looked out for. An effective compliance program is necessary in order to mitigate these risks. In addition to the challenges that are associated wit Continue Reading...
As a woman enters her geriatric years, many unique problems are also faced. Her post-menopausal period leaves a woman with increased risk of osteoporosis, and hormone-replacement therapy may need to be considered or dismissed depending upon the need Continue Reading...
Stated to be barriers in the current environment and responsible for the reporting that is inadequate in relation to medical errors are: Lack of a common understanding about errors among health care professionals Physicians generally think of erro Continue Reading...
role that competition plays in U.S. healthcare This paper presents a detailed examination of the role that competition plays in U.S. healthcare. The writer explores the impact that the ability to compete for consumers has on the health care industry Continue Reading...
cornerstone beliefs of the American healthcare system -- indeed the American system of government in general -- are the values of individual liberty and private enterprise. This is why private, employer-provided insurance has dominated the healthcar Continue Reading...
Insurance for Nurses Most of us probably see the issues of overtime and insurance as being entirely separate from each other. But for nurses, there is a clear connection between the two - one that is becoming clearer all of the time. Nurses have th Continue Reading...
Personal Healthcare Technology Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and the Sunrise Children's Hospital The Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, which includes the Sunrise Children's Hospital, is an approximately 55-year-old facility located in Sout Continue Reading...
Health Policies Medicare When everyone in our country finally starts to reach the age of 65 years of age or older, then every person will become eligible for Medicare. It is clear that there are some elderly that are having minimum health concerns w Continue Reading...
Poor dental health can be a portal that allows bacteria and other infectious organisms into blood stream. Poor dental health care can also lead to poor outcomes of dialysis. Heart disease patients have special needs when it comes to dental care. Spr Continue Reading...
The heated nature of the current political debate in the United States upon the subject of healthcare is testimony to the idea that far less than economic numbers, cultural wars govern how healthcare is perceived and administrated. All nations face Continue Reading...
Charity Patients WHEN HEALTHCARE IS LIMITED Treating Charity Patients Charity or uninsured patients do not receive adequate health care. They cannot afford it as hospitals charge them to four times more than those with healthcare coverage (The Ass Continue Reading...
Extra Additions for Patient Centered Care Model Within the rubric of 21st century medicine, it is often surprising that we need to be reminded that it is not the technology, the clinical expertise, or even the health care and institutional debates t Continue Reading...
" (p.3) Despite its problems and issues, single-payer system is still a reasonably good answer to healthcare insurance problems in the U.S. However there are some changes we might need to introduce in order improve single-payer system and to minimiz Continue Reading...
Access and Availability The biggest problem in terms of access to healthcare is in rural areas. Our investigation found that there are very few if any rural clinics or healthcare facilities. Access to healthcare is also limited to those that can Continue Reading...
Healthcare Policy: An Overview of the Uninsured and Underinsured in America An alarming number of people in the United States today do not have health-care coverage. Many of these people live in urban areas and their income is below the official go Continue Reading...
They offer the same flexibility and costs saving available to people at larger organizations. According an article published by Physicians Care, "When we set up a self-funded plan for a smaller employer, we help them select the appropriate level of Continue Reading...
Gervaise et. al, (1999) point out that increasingly financial reimbursement restrictions from managed care agencies play a critical role "in the quality of patient care" (1). According to the researchers, "complicated contractual arrangements among Continue Reading...
Balance Scorecard Applications in Healthcare Organizations Balanced Scorecard The Learning & Growth Perspective The Business Process Perspective The Financial Perspective Strategy Mapping General Perspective of Performance Management Perfo Continue Reading...
Healthcare for Mentally Impaired Patients Probing what information is available about the current status of placement or accommodation and level of personal healthcare available to mentally impaired and emotionally disturbed individuals, it is clear Continue Reading...
HealthCare Insurance and Reimbursement Medical Insurance Products and Services Health and medical insurance represent an insurance coverage form that disburses operation and clinical treatment expenditure incurred by those insured. Such insurance may Continue Reading...
It promised to be a very important resource to the primary care setting, but at present, the performance has not been considerable and there have been lack of funds and local consensus, which thwart its implementation (Pidd). Shared Care Between GP Continue Reading...
2). Barber and Delfabbro report that research has determined that children with physical and mental disabilities fare better in institutional settings, where the continuity in care-to-need structure is in place and the consistency in structured rou Continue Reading...
For many people who have a pressing health issue or concern that does not occur when their doctor is in office, the emergency room is their only alternative. An emergency room doctor can’t turn them away, and for the uninsured the ER is often t Continue Reading...
Executives of major companies, like Coca-Cola Enterprises in Atlanta, believed that B-200 was especially helpful in rehabilitation and prevention of re-injury, as employees usually resumed work when their backs stopped hurting, thinking the injury w Continue Reading...
Cultural Competency Health Professionals Canada This paper discusses cultural competency for health professionals in Canada. Defining cultural competence for healthcare as respectful awareness of cultural differences, the importance of this perspect Continue Reading...
However, integrated continuum of care networks presents a viable solution to mental health care delivery that properly allocates resources a collaborative and cooperative service delivery system. Needed, according to Mohatt (1997) is "vertical inte Continue Reading...
Individuals are asked to work toward those goals and values they hold while experience their thoughts and positive feelings." (Gregg et al., 2007) ACT is stated to have "shown positive outcomes for a wide variety of conditions including for chronic Continue Reading...
What emerges from these efforts are two essential understandings. First, in spite of whatever evidence may exist to the contrary, system building will continue apace in the hospital industry. Whether the battlefield is risky is immaterial, for the Continue Reading...
Many of them who have worked for 20 years as nurses have gone up the managerial or corporate ladder. More and more nurses have chosen more paper work and less patient care by becoming supervisors, administrators and nursing directors and then retire Continue Reading...
Medicare, Wealth and Equality of Healthcare The premise of this position paper is that wealth, not regulation, determines the quality of healthcare available in the United States, citing the inequality of the Medicare Program as a case in point. A r Continue Reading...
Healthcare Trends in the USIntroductionThe evolution of health care services in the United States over the past 100 years has been due to significant technological and procedural advancements, the advance of specialized medicine, societal shifts in n Continue Reading...
Evolution of the Modern American Health Care SystemToday, the United States spends more on health care per capita than any other industrialized country, but many critics charge that American taxpayers are not getting enough bang for their health care Continue Reading...
Introduction Why are patients with Medicaid coverage not receiving the best quality of health care? One of the reasons is that physicians do not want to participate in the Medicaid program because the rate of payment from either the state or the fede Continue Reading...
