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HCS/212
December 10, 2012
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The experience I have encountered so far in the health field has been doing medical billing. In billing for claims through a facility or provider you deal with all kinds of insurance programs. Out of all the different health care programs Medicare or a Medicare supplement is about eighty percent of my medical billing. There are things about how Medicare that I do not understand or feel that their decisions on certain claims are fair. If I could read about Medicare and get a better understanding for the program and all that it has to offer it may assist me in my current position and my decision on how I want to utilize my health care degree. This is why I chose this organization as my topic for the paper.
Discussions about a national health system date back as far as to President Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. It was not until the passionate vision of President Harry S. Truman in 1945 who introduced a creation for a national health insurance fund available to all Americans. President Truman introduced this bill to Congress, but they denied it. He continued to fight for this bill to be passed but was not successful. While President John F. Kennedy was in office a national study was performed with an astonishing number of Americans over the age of 65 years were without health coverage. President John F. Kennedy tried, as so did his predecessors before him, to get Congress to pass the bill for national health coverage, but with no success. It was not until 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson was successful in getting legislation signed and Americans would start to receive health coverage. In the making of a twenty year span, introduced to America, was Medicare ("Medicare Resource Center", 2012).
In 1966 Americans that were 65 years or older were enrolled in Medicare part A, which covers inpatient hospital stays, hospice care, skilled nursing facility stays, and some
HCS/212
December 10, 2012
Health Care Support Services
The experience I have encountered so far in the health field has been doing medical billing. In billing for claims through a facility or provider you deal with all kinds of insurance programs. Out of all the different health care programs Medicare or a Medicare supplement is about eighty percent of my medical billing. There are things about how Medicare that I do not understand or feel that their decisions on certain claims are fair. If I could read about Medicare and get a better understanding for the program and all that it has to offer it may assist me in my current position and my decision on how I want to utilize my health care degree. This is why I chose this organization as my topic for the paper.
Discussions about a national health system date back as far as to President Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. It was not until the passionate vision of President Harry S. Truman in 1945 who introduced a creation for a national health insurance fund available to all Americans. President Truman introduced this bill to Congress, but they denied it. He continued to fight for this bill to be passed but was not successful. While President John F. Kennedy was in office a national study was performed with an astonishing number of Americans over the age of 65 years were without health coverage. President John F. Kennedy tried, as so did his predecessors before him, to get Congress to pass the bill for national health coverage, but with no success. It was not until 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson was successful in getting legislation signed and Americans would start to receive health coverage. In the making of a twenty year span, introduced to America, was Medicare ("Medicare Resource Center", 2012).
In 1966 Americans that were 65 years or older were enrolled in Medicare part A, which covers inpatient hospital stays, hospice care, skilled nursing facility stays, and some
References: Medicare Resource Center. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.medicareresources.org