101 20‚ April‚ 2011 President Obama Health Care Plan: More than a week after President Obama signed the sweeping new health care law‚ which eventually provides insurance coverage for 32 million uninsured American‚ many of us are still scratching our head (Parker). What just happened? And how and when will we start feeling its effect? Effective this year‚ in six months‚ children with preexisting condition cannot be denied health care. In 2014‚ Medicaid will cover individual up to 133 percent
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Medicare is a federal health insurance program. There are many parts to Medicare. Each section represents different things such as.. Part A is for hospital insurance‚ Part B is for supplemental insurance‚ Part C which is the Medicare Advantage Program ‚ and Part D which provides access to prescriptions. Medicare also has Medigap which assist the beneficiaries with paying for insurance. Medicare is usually for those that are for people who are 65 or older‚ certain younger people with disabilities
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Part 1 of the Advance Health Directives is a Power of Attorney‚ in which another person is named as agent to make health care decisions even if the signer is still able to do. Also‚ this document names an alternate agent as second choice. Part 2 (Living Will) of the Advance Health Directives consists in Instructions for Health Care and life sustaining procedures‚ that can be signed even if the part 1 was done. On this section
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Medicare Part D Drug Plan was created by Congress in 2003 to aid the elderly‚ disabled‚ and sick persons in affording their medication. Coverage for the drug plan went into affect January 1‚ 2006. This plan was called the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) (Cassel‚ 2005). The final bill that passed‚ was influenced by drug-company and health insurance lobbyists and focused mainly on the needs of those industries instead of the seniors it was meant to serve
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P2: Outline the main factors of current health and safety legislation as applied in health and social care. This leaflet will contain information for a booklet covering the main features of at least 3 current health and safety legislations as applied in a health and social care setting. Legislation is another word for written law‚ which may also be known as act of parliament or regulations. As stated by Stretch B and Whitehouse M (2007) pg. 17 legislation is also the law that parliament makes which
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ALLIANT HEALTH SYSTEMS : A VISION OF TOTAL QUALITY Alliant’s quest for quality is unequivocal when one reads what Jim Petersdorf had to say about the health care industry “To deliver value‚ hospitals would have to consider both cost and quality….” And what his successor‚ Rod Wolford said about TQM : “To make total quality management work‚ you need an overwhelming conviction that it is central to everything you do. I have this conviction…..” For a strategy to be accepted ‚ and to become successful
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Is health care a basic right? Can it be limited if the cost of providing unlimited treatment is prohibitive? If so‚ should it be regarded as a commodity and limited by market mechanisms‚ or should it be rationed by government regulation? If not‚ how can the nation pay for it? Health Care‚ like all other services comes at a financial cost. While we should strive to make health care available and affordable to all‚ the bottom line is that it is a service that can only be provided if the voting
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2013 AL420 Current Issues in Allied Health Health Care Reform: Past‚ Present‚ and Future Introduction Health care‚ and the lack thereof‚ in the United States have always been and will continue to be an issue. Currently‚ the United States does not have Universal Healthcare and those that do have health care coverage should feel privileged. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the: a) way healthcare is currently delivered‚ b) the history of health care reform‚
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Health Care Cost Accounting A capitation payment arrangement can be an effective means to control healthcare costs because it allows both the insurer and the employer to predict costs for healthcare services more accurately. When a capitation payment method is used‚ the financial risk of caring for the patient is transferred to the medical delivery system. If the healthcare delivery system does not have a cost accounting system or the ability to develop cost information on each payer and service
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The health care industry is a multi-million dollar industry. Health insurance‚ providers‚ technology management‚ and inpatient and outpatient procedures are among the many terms that we hear nowadays within this industry. The principal phrase that seems to be ringing in the ears of the government and policymakers are debt and cost-control. There are fundamental concepts that should be understood throughout the health care industry as it relates to finance. On one hand‚ many individuals have a general
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