The Act creates a positive balance between government interests to save money and the interests of Medicare recipients to receive a wide range of drugs for their specific needs. The current ban on government negotiations with pharmaceutical companie Continue Reading...
(2003) that examined the access that black and Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries have to prescribe drugs for chronic conditions. Not much has changed in the times since then and taking the findings of the study it can be established that the Black and Continue Reading...
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...
The fears of the elderly were rooted in the fact that the reforms would eliminate "the tax deductibility of the 28% federal subsidy, known as the retiree drug subsidy (RDS), for employers who provide creditable prescription drug coverage to Medicar Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Evolution of Medicare: Tracing the History and Key Amendments This essay would explore the historical context of Medicare's inception, the societal and political forces that shaped it, and the signi Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The History and Evolution of Medicare: This essay could explore the origins of Medicare, key legislative milestones since its inception in 1965, and the changes in coverage and policy that have shaped the modern Medicare p Continue Reading...
Pharmacy Ethics The author of this report has been asked to review the legal and ethical considerations in play given the test case scenario surrounding Pharmacare and Compcare. As is quickly apparent while reading the case study, the company engage Continue Reading...
Medicare and Medicaid are government-sponsored programs whose objective is to provide patients with health assistance upon meeting specific criteria. Medicare is the federal program that provides insurance for elderly patients aged 65 and over, and a Continue Reading...
Ordinary insurance companies were not willing to extend insurance services to older citizens since it was considered a losing proposition. With the enactment of Medicare, 99% of older people in the country have health insurance and poverty among th Continue Reading...
In 2003, President Bush expanded Medicare, by subsidizing prescription drug costs under Part D. There are further changes to Medicare and Medicaid in the Affordable Care Act. There were expansions in the number of preventative health care services Continue Reading...
This means that the program will need to support many more people than it currently does, and there will be fewer (proportionally) workers paying into the system (Johnson 2006). The particular problem cited and explored by this author is prescriptio Continue Reading...
Reductions in provider payments are sometimes considered as suitable options for reducing excessive Medicare spending (Medicare Reform Options). Nevertheless, we are deemed to believe that such reductions will also affect the benefits for the elder Continue Reading...
Direct to Consumer Advertising HISTORY OF DRUG ADVERTISING THE DTC ADVERTISING PHENOMENON CREATING DEMAND DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING - A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING CAUSE OF DEATH PROFIT UTILIZATION, PRICING, AND DEMOGRAPHICS LEGISLATION, POLITICS AN Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Medicare Reforms on the Elderly Population: This essay could discuss how changes to Medicare affect the quality of life, financial security, and access to healthcare for seniors. It may a Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Necessity of Medicare Reform for an Aging Population: This essay would explore the demographic changes and the increasing number of elderly in the United States, examining the strain on Medicare resources. It would loo Continue Reading...
In a study by Shah, Aslam and Avery (2001) of approximately 38,000 prescriptions by 23 doctors, there were a number of errors including: 715 or 25% no directions; 510 or 18% prescribed item not mentioned (usually on repeat prescription); 321 or 11%, Continue Reading...
S.A. It is worth noting that some of these parts that are left out can be very expensive at times particularly when the beneficiary has to pay the out-of-pocket premiums and deductibles as well, and these services could be inevitable like seeking med Continue Reading...
309). The abbreviated approval process authorized by Hatch-Waxman lets generic drug manufacturers use the same clinical data that the original manufacturer used to obtain FDA approval, thereby avoiding these expenses. In this regard, Greene emphasi 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...
Healthcare and Drug Costs Increasing Healthcare and Drug Costs Affect on the Socioeconomic Drag in the U.S. The United States spends about 2.5 trillion dollars a year just on health care (Johnson, 2009). However, the Unites States' prices keep goin 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...
Further, in order to be covered by Medicare, the stay at the nursing home must include care that requires skilled nursing. In other words, Medicare will not cover custodial, non-skilled or long-term care that includes activities of daily living, suc Continue Reading...
In fact Congress should pass a bill that gives that prescription drug benefit to Medicare patients. QUESTION NINE: In the United States, healthcare is so expensive that over 45 million people are without health insurance. It is a broken system, lea Continue Reading...
Then, when you combine this with the fact that Medicaid serves 53 million people with an annual budget of $329 billion, means that rising costs is severely affecting this program. ("Medicaid Reform," 2005) the inflexibility of this program has contr Continue Reading...
affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA or Obamacare) on the elderly Obamacare: Its impact upon the elderly The impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (often called 'Obamacare') upon America is often discussed by politicians as if it had a uni Continue Reading...
Healthcare Management Health Care Management On March 2010, the U.S. president, Barrack Obama, signed the Affordable Care Act. This act highlights detailed health insurance reforms expected to roll out from 2011 and beyond (Vlvar, 2011). The provis Continue Reading...
Globalization and American Health Care What explains the directionality of flows in health care? Patients, health workers, managerial practices? Globalization has brought in the information revolution and this has again brought changes in the medic Continue Reading...
Health Care and the Law - Are Preferred Drugs Lists Helpful or Harmful to Low-Income Patients? Pear, Robert. (April 6, 2004) "U.S. Appeals Court Backs State Efforts at Drug Cost Control." New York Times. Article Retrieved at http://www.nytimes.com/ Continue Reading...
(Menzel, 1990, p. 3) Fisher, Berwick, & Davis alude to the idea of integration in health care, with providers linking as well as creating networks of electronic medical records and other cost improvement tactics. The United States and other nat Continue Reading...
Resolving the Higher Prescriptive Drug Cost Problem Resolving beneficiary or medical consumer issues with respect to the rapidly rising costs of drugs is a heated issue I government and in every American's living room. Not only are those living in a Continue Reading...
Why Do the Elderly Turn to Alcohol and Drugs?Alcohol and substance use. (2022). U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/stress-coping/alcohol-use.html.This site maint Continue Reading...
It is significantly affecting and endangering the future of millions of young people in the nation. Additionally, there are several challenges on the issue of the overall drug use in the United States. To understand the issue of drug and substance a Continue Reading...
Nicotine can imitate neurotransmitters in the brain and send confusing messages, affecting critical brain development" (Beauchaine in Shepherd). This is but the tip of the iceberg regarding the harmful nature of tobacco in any form. From an ethical 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...
RATIONALE for the ELEMENTS The rationale for the elements stated within the mission, vision and values statement is that through educating and assisting patients in signing up for and choosing their provider under the Medicare Advantage plan that t Continue Reading...
Teams should be created that embrace a diversity of skills and workers from different areas of expertise, so there is no knowledge overlap, and thus less jockeying for position of who has the better qualifications within a certain field. If necessar Continue Reading...
The act contains a prescription drug entitlement. This is accomplished by providing subsidies for employers to convince them not to eliminate prescription drug benefits for retired workers. Further subsidies were made to prescription drugs for Medic Continue Reading...
Social Policy Research has shown that the government is a payer, regulator as well as, the provider in the health sector. As a result, the federal government should ensure that they exercise caution particularly when attempting to regulate the presc Continue Reading...
This is the strategy used in Canada, where drug costs have been substantially reduced. The challenges presented by this law have spilled over into the current health-care reform debate. Many people and many legislators who might have been more open Continue Reading...
Healthcare Integrity is a major issue for healthcare organizations because there are many avenues for fraud, and for people to demonstrate a lack of ethics. The problem is that the temptation is sometimes too great and despite the fact that there ar Continue Reading...
