Health care costs in the United States (US) currently exceed 17% of GDP and continue to rise. Other developed nations spend less of their GDP on health care but have the same increasing trend. Factors contributing to this rise are not hard to find‚ such as the development of new treatments and the age increase of the baby boomers. Unfortunately‚ instead of focusing on the costs of treating individual patients with specific medical conditions over their full cycle of care‚ providers aggregate and
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Labor and delivery record: Health record documentation that takes the place of an operative report for patients who give birth in the obstetrics department of an acute care hospital. Laboratory report: The analysis of a laboratory procedure‚ generated automatically by electronic testing equipment or written by a medical technologist or other specialist
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HIPAA is a very important health care law that all health care providers are required to comply with and is designed to simplify administrative aspects of health care. Established in 1996 HIPAA is used to protect and secure the privacy of patients’ health care information and health insurance portability. It also standardizes electronic data transactions(Austin‚ Wetle‚ & Wetle‚ 2012). Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA is a federally enacted law‚ although if the state
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Health Care Summary Michelle Donald HCS/449 Instructor: Kathie Huttegger Health Care Summary Health Care Administration is a profession I found myself drawn to. Early in my career I believed I wanted to be an attorney. As I entered college and began doing research‚ working with an attorney‚ I found that I had a knack for research and talking with people so I became a paralegal. When I graduated in 1999 as a paralegal‚ I fell on hard times‚ had children‚ but I did a
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ECONOMIC TERMS AND HEALTH CARE HISTORY Economic Terms and Health Care History Jodi Meaux Broussard University of Phoenix November 13‚ 2012 HCS/440 Health Care economics has been around for a long time. There have been many changes over the years. Health care economics are there to figure out what issues are in health care and try to come up with a plan to fix the problem. Economists also analyze every possible issue and solution in order to fix the problem. “Health economists use the
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1. Should all world citizens have free (no cost) access to basic health care‚ or should nations have the right to limit access to health care based on their societal values and goals? On this first question‚ I will answer YES that all world citizen should have access to basic health care free at no cost without limit. 2. Why? The reason is this‚ if the laws and the constitutions that guides each country agrees to the RIGHT TO LIVE‚ why will it be a problem to sustain the same life that the world
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According to one of the videos which had compared the United States health care system to that of other countries such as France and Canada‚ we are ranked a whopping 37th in the nation when it comes to our health care system. I think it would be fair to say that that sounds pretty accurate considering that there are 47 million people uninsured in the United States‚ but that is not something to be proud about. However‚ if you have money in the United States or are just simply insured‚ then there is
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Health Care Budget Effective financial management is the basis of thriving health care organizations. Organizations must make good investment decisions based on objective analysis (Healthcare Financial Management Association [HFMA]‚ 2005). Integration of financial management principles provides decision makers with guidance to make capital decisions maximize mission-based benefits at effective costs (HFMA‚ 2005). An operating budget is the statement of profit and loss for the entire organization
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expensive health care. In Michigan‚ a state study found that in a single year (2009) health care for inmates ages 55 to 59 cost more than four times more than for those aged 20 to 24. In Georgia‚ caring for prisoners ages 65 or older costs about $8‚565 per inmate each year. The average annual health-care cost for Georgian prisoners under 65? $961 per inmate. So‚ what’s a state to do? According to experts interviewed by Pew‚ states are trying to rein in costs by providing remote health care‚ outsourcing
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our current health care program. Under the Affordable Health Care Act‚ legal residents of the U.S. who are not covered by either Medicare or an employer-provided insurance that is purchased through the Affordable Health Care Act. This endeavor was and is still being met with great opposition. Many employers will have two options in order to be in compliance. All U.S. employers would be expected to either provide health coverage for their employees equal in quality to Health Care for America or
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