157 Search Results for Medicare Medicaid Current and Future Trends
Veterans & Retirees; Is Government Keeping its Promise
This study aimed at exploring the experiences and perceptions of Veterans belonging to Lousiana and Mississippi about three variables; the accessibility of organization; the accessibility of Continue Reading...
The Human Genome Experiment and Its Implications for Health Care
History of Medical Technology: Implications of Changes in the Theory and Practice of Medical Care
Innovations in medical devices and health care technologies have generated new question Continue Reading...
Policy, Politics and Global Health Trends
The Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was recently signed into law in America. This public policy impacts all citizens of the U.S.A. And has been controversial from its inception, not only b Continue Reading...
Drugs are an especially significant problem. The high cost of prescription drugs, however, does not just derive from the expertise to develop them. Drug companies receive patent protection for drugs that allows them to charge monopoly rents. This is Continue Reading...
Insurance Fraud
After tax evasion, insurance fraud is considered the highest-ranked among white-collar crimes. The original concept of insurance, as a for-profit endeavor, was to collect funds from a large number of people to pay for damages and acc Continue Reading...
program has the potential to revolutionize the way the healthcare industry on many fronts and has implications for nurses, nursing, national health policy, patient outcomes, and population health associated with the collection and use of Meaningful Continue Reading...
Barriers to provision of healthcare in rural areas include "provider shortages and infrastructure issues." (Hearne, et al. 2004)
Obesity related costs are inclusive of both direct and indirect costs which include 'medical costs and lost productivit Continue Reading...
Health Administration
The purpose of this study is to show that there are many reasons why nurses leave their profession, but that financial reasons often rank very high on their list of concerns. Managed care issues and job dissatisfaction also pla Continue Reading...
Wound Care
Chronic wounds represent a devastating health care problem with significant clinical, physical and social implications. Evidence suggests that consistent, meticulous and skilled care provides the primary means by which successful wound ca Continue Reading...
This would be only natural for central bankers, as wealth effects may be a very relevant factor in determining fluctuations in aggregate demand. Studies on wealth effects have been conducted in recent years, also in the Bank of Italy, making use of Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Nursing Homes on Elderly Well-being:
This essay would explore how living in a nursing home can influence the emotional, psychological, and physical well-being of elderly residents. To Continue Reading...
Inpatient Admissions
If poor people were as healthy as the rest of America, we actually would not see any decline in inpatient admission because the rest of America is really not very healthy. As several studies have recently noted, an alarming trend Continue Reading...
Poverty is defined as having a meager annual income, insufficient for meeting basic expenditure. Research has confirmed that older adults, from the age of 65 years and above, when poor, confront immense burden in meeting with their basic housing, foo Continue Reading...
Background
Passion Home Health is a provider of home health care services in Camarillo, CA. The company`s challenge typically revolves around a shortage of care workers given the number of clients. There are two sides to this issue - one is the dema Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act and EMS
The affordable care act is a medical insurance program that came into existence during the Obama regime. This came as a subsequent addition to the Medicaid and Medicare programs as fronted in the year 1965. The motive be Continue Reading...
In fact, hospitals and nursing homes have the option of advising their patients of their right to either accept or refuse medical treatment and their right to formulate advance directives regarding their care should they become incompetent based int Continue Reading...
Application of Public Health Concepts for the Uninsured: The Effects on the Health Sector
Introduction
Application of public health is of major concern to DNP-prepared nurses in their different fields and places of practice. Since the 20th century, p Continue Reading...
Midwifery in Primary Care
New Directions for Midwives:
Addressing Novel Primary Care Roles
Looking towards the future, radical changes are sweeping the United States healthcare system with the advent of a new public healthcare system. This change Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Health Insurance on Access to Healthcare:
Examine how health insurance coverage affects individuals' ability to access medical services, preventive care, and manage chronic diseases. Discu Continue Reading...
State of Florida: Affordable Care Act (ACA) Implementation
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to extend healthcare coverage to more Americans, ideally to cover all Americans. Yet the passage of the bill was relatively turbulent, and resulted Continue Reading...
Physician Assisted Suicide in Patients With Unbearable Suffering or the Terminally Ill
One of the most hotly debated issues today is physician-assisted suicide. Recently, California became the fifth state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and Continue Reading...
In this regard, Sheve adds that, "For these people, assisted living may be the answer. Assisted living facilities fill a gap between complete independence and around-the-clock care. It's an option for those who are 'mostly abled' and who still want Continue Reading...
In spite of subsequent attempts to control spending, the average net savings, as estimated in the NIPA attained a low of negative $40 billion or negative 0.4% of GDP during the first quarter of the year. A majority of these authorities are subject t Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Intersection of Aging Demographics and Long-Term Care Demand:
Explore how the aging population is impacting the demand for long-term care services. Analyze statistical trends, project future needs, Continue Reading...
Explaining the Differences in the U.S. and European Health Care SystemsHow can it be that the richest, most powerful nation on earth can tolerate 47 million uninsured, the highest health care costs per capita by far on earth, and health outcomes that Continue Reading...
Policy Analysis for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ActToday, more than 23 million Americans are enrolled in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereinafter alternatively the Act), but this law remains a highly controversial po Continue Reading...
Federal, State, County Public Health Resources
Comparison Paper: Federal, State, and County Public Health Resources
Comparison Paper: Federal, State, County Public Health Resources
Comparison Paper Federal, State, County Public Health Resources
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While many insurance companies may have limits in place, those limits are easily raised when requested by doctors (Maschue 2012). Under the current Medicare and Medicaid plans, however, the government sets specific amounts that doctors and hospitals Continue Reading...
Software Processing Methodology
Understanding the Problem
Klyne Smith, DSE Candidate
Dr. Frank Coyle
Technical
Motivation
Research and Contribution Methods
Software Processing Methodologies
Waterfall Methodology
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opport Continue Reading...
In terms of similarities, each of these budgets contains roughly the same basic format. While the specific charts may differ, each budget separates revenue sources and attempts to break those down. The budgets also explain the expenditures, and typi Continue Reading...
In addition, liability insurance covers damage done to other's property, should the insured become legally liable for the damages.
Boiler insurance was originally created to cover loss due to insureds owning a pressure boiler. However, today, boile Continue Reading...
Technology Integration Poses New Ethical Dilemmas for Healthcare
Imagine studying the effects of globalization on healthcare. What would one find from his or her research? Is there a possibility that policies need changed? How does this affect one's Continue Reading...
organizations can do to protect client data comprehensively and how they do this. It will also examine the most common forms of data customers generate, and take a look at some of the contemporary hardware and software that organizations protecting Continue Reading...
Therefore, a basis is formed on which to reduce the inappropriate admissions after the correct rates are determined (Restuccia, Shwartz, Ash, and Payne, 1996).
The connection between hospitalization rates and the inappropriateness of the admissions Continue Reading...
Pfizer Inc. - Good Buy in Pharmaceutical Stock?
Pfizer Inc., is a giant in the Pharmaceutical Sector. It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol PFE. Its principle activities include the research and manufacturing of prescriptio Continue Reading...
A summary of the issue and the middle-range theory that could be used
There has been a disturbing trend of both surplus and shortage of nurses at different times throughout the healthcare workforce history in the US. There was a nursing shortage in t Continue Reading...
Marketing in Healthcare
Catholic Healthcare West
Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) is a not-for-profit healthcare organization serving parts of Arizona, Nevada and the majority of California. With 42 hospitals it is the largest Catholic hospital syste Continue Reading...