29 Search Results for Medicare Fraud Abuse and Waste
President George Bush proposed a two part strategy with initial implemented drug coverage to low-income beneficiaries coupled with a White House task force to develop a plan to reform Medicare (Health Policy, 2001). Under this plan beneficiaries wit Continue Reading...
Medicaid and Medicare Fraud
Describe health news story combating health care fraud Medicare Medicaid• Examine evaluate corporate structure governance, culture, focus social responsibility • Recommends
Medicare and Medicaid fraud: An ove Continue Reading...
Fraudulent activities such as these resulted in violations under the act, including a fine of not more than $25,000.00 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
Analysis of Current Fraud legal analysis of the current fraud committed in Continue Reading...
This site contains no information directly related to the problem of substance abuse within the profession. The industry related information on the workplace environment is geared towards serving the nursing professional, and especially protecting Continue Reading...
Miscoding on the Billing Forms Discussion Board
The fundamental basis for auditing Medicare and Medicaid billing is that the services provided are confidential, patient privacy must be protected, and the written word of the provider is the record of Continue Reading...
Fraud and abuse present significant problems for the healthcare sector, leading to both financial losses and reduced quality of care. The outcomes of fraud and abuse are similar; but fraud and abuse are legally differentiated based on motive. Accordi Continue Reading...
The experiences of seniors within the healthcare delivery system will alter how all Americans view healthcare. The healthcare delivery systems and overall organizational structure in the United States has been slow to adjust but that rest of the wo Continue Reading...
Healthcare Fraud
Identity theft and fraud of many types and forms are obviously a major inconvenience and hindrance to anyone that falls prey to a person that engages that crime. There are many variants and forms of fraud and identity theft out ther Continue Reading...
Through its partnership with the Department of Justice and the Human Health Services, the HEAT has expanded data sharing and improved information sharing procedures in order to get critical data and information into the hands of law enforcement agen Continue Reading...
Financial Management
Content Find articles address financial reporting practices ethics standards health care finance, including * generally accepted accounting principles * corporate compliance, ethics, and fraud abuse
Financial management: Litera Continue Reading...
Social, Cultural, And Political Influence in Healthcare Delivery
Social, cultural, and political inequalities are detrimental to the health and healthcare system of the U.S. This is because the U.S. is one of the most multicultural, overpopulated, d Continue Reading...
(Chizek, 2003)
The Role legal nurse consultant may provide service in a number of roles, including but not limited to:
Consulting expert
Testifying expert
Facility-based investigator
Trainer and in-service presenter
Peer reviewer
Quality impr Continue Reading...
Sociology Discussion Responses
Response to Post #
Your post raises some very important issues that face the entire nation as well as the individual states such as New Mexico. The largest social services programs such as Medicare and Medicaid are un Continue Reading...
But the failure must be corrected within 30 days from the time of notification of the violation. Criminal penalty will be imposed on a person who knowingly obtains and reveals identifiable health information and violates HIPAA Rules at a fine of $50 Continue Reading...
Liability
Criminal Liability and Healthcare Organizations
Providing the highest quality care possible to patients is of course the overarching goal for any ethically operating medical establishments, and should guide most practices. There are othe Continue Reading...
PharmaCARE -- Case Review
The Stakeholders
There are numerous stakeholders and stakeholder groups that are presented in this case. The stakeholders can be thought of in two different primary groups to make the first set of distinctions, internal an Continue Reading...
Health Care Management
Obstacles to change in Health Care management.
There are a nearly infinite number of things that can go wrong for a health care manager, and out of the two major problems that can arise, staff relationship problems and stress Continue Reading...
Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature
Chapter Introduction
This chapter provides the background and an overview of the debate concerning national health insurance and the issues surrounding the provision of universal health care in the United S Continue Reading...
Ethics of Managed Healthcare
Healthcare policy has emerged as one of the most important issues in American politics and will continue to drive significant aspects of contemporary American public policy debates in the near future. That is because, on Continue Reading...
Transparency empowers consumers to become better shoppers. Economists assert that transparency stimulates productivity, for example, in exchange for money, one individual obtaining fair value. In every aspect, except healthcare, Davis points out, tr Continue Reading...
Healthcare Legislation
According to a research focused on examining elderly persons' health status for individual states, an aging population with better life expectancy, but increasing prevalence of chronic ailments like obesity and diabetes indica Continue Reading...
Healthcare Spending
The United States Health Care System is probably the worst organized system. It expends double than other developed countries on health care system but face worse outcomes. The Government is running healthcare programs but still Continue Reading...
experienced a significant increase in the cost of health care. In 2004, 16% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was spent on health care. In 2010, President Obama signed the "Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962)" that has been a topic of Continue Reading...
Medicaid Health Care Assistance
How does the organization fund its programs?
Medicaid was developed for the sole purpose of providing health care services to low income individuals and families. For those people that cannot afford to pay for these Continue Reading...
Elderly Care in America: A comparison with England's Healthcare System
Healthcare in America vs. Healthcare in England
Different countries have varying healthcare systems across the world and the systems are set to benefit the local population with Continue Reading...
But regardless of what the public heard or read repeatedly, only workers (or their dependents) with such conditions are affected by the law. For workers who lose group coverage and need individual policies, the law sets up formidable hurdles. So far Continue Reading...
The security rule also requires the physician to train his staff periodically on security policies and procedures and to come up with a contingency plan in cases of calamities like an earthquake, fire or other events that can destroy his information Continue Reading...
Compliance Oversight
As the compliance officer at ABC Hospital, one of my major tasks is to research the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) website to locate the 2012 plan with a view of identifying compliance issues under review by the OIG. Gene Continue Reading...
This instance may make the school unable to obtain the best price on a piece of property if the landowner is able to search public records to find out bargaining information to use as leverage in obtaining full price on the sale.
One of the duties Continue Reading...