References: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://searchhealthit.techtarget.com/definition/Centers-for-Medicare-Medicaid-Services-CMS Covered Entity (Health Care) . (2011). Retrieved from http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/covered-entity-health-care/ Definition of Unique identifier reporting. (n.d.)
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act-PPACA) is a United States federal statue signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010; it represents the most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. There are many things that make Obamacare good and bad for this country as a whole. The debate: will it last or will it benefit the U.S. for the future? Obamacare is the unofficial name for “The Patient Protection and Affordable
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In “Let There Be Dark‚” by Paul Bogard ‚ Paul writes about how light pollution has affected our life. Paul Bogard builds an argument to persuade his audience that natural darkness should be preserved by reminding his readers the benefits of darkness‚ using art‚ he also statistics and facts‚and giving the reader solutions to stop light pollution. Paul Bogard starts of by building his argument by reminiscing about a personal story‚ about how his life was before light pollution. Paul Bogard captures
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Fiscal Policy Paper Discuss within your Learning Team how and why the U.S.’s deficit‚ surplus and debt have an effect on the following: Tax payers Future Social Security and Medicare users Write a 350- to 1‚050-word paper that details your team’s findings. Taxpayers When it comes to the United States deficit‚ surplus‚ and debt have an important impact on taxpayers including the current state of our economy and the large deficit we continue to run in the first place one of the first things that
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The community partners all agree that too many Medicare recipients have difficulty with the cost of medications‚ even with Medicare advantage plans. Patients that can afford their medications are more compliant‚ will likely have decreased complications and healthier outcomes than those that cannot afford their medications. This means better outcomes for the community partners. | Health Needs of Vulnerable Populations | Most Medicare recipients fall within the vulnerable population‚ due to
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heart disease. The local general practitioner develops a Chronic Disease Management Plan since he is eligible due to his chronic medical condition‚ allowing Sebastian to receive a Medicare rebate of a maximum of five services (per calendar year) that are bulk-billed (if the provider of the service accepts the Medicare rebate) due to ultrasound results showing symptoms of CHD that could potentially be present in the past six months of Carbello’s life (Department of Health‚ 2014). Further advice given
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our current health care system is fragmented‚ failing to consistently deliver high quality care‚ particularly to certain vulnerable people‚ such as: those with multiple chronic conditions‚ the frail elderly‚ people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid‚ and members of a racial or ethnic minority. These populations tend to see more physicians‚ have more office visits and take more medications. Too often‚ there is no one to coordinate this care. This failure to coordinate leads to
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quality and proficiency of care delivered. The Centers of Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS)‚ and the ACO is “health care providers of an organization which approves accountable services of quality‚ overall care‚ and quality of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled by the traditional fee-for-service program that are assigned to it.” Medicare (2010). The cost of running a system that backed by government funds is too
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a silver lining‚ as many positive new policies came out of our experience. Some examples are the Stock Market Crash leading to regulation‚ banks failing leading to FDIC‚ poverty leading to unemployment and welfare‚ and lack of medical care led to Medicare. Basically‚ we created safeguards to prevent another depression and programs to help people if the safeguards failed. "Great Depression." : The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 04 Jan. 2013. "Government Growth." : The Concise
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“Father of Medicare”. He was the first to create a provincial hospital insurance program which ended up becoming national throughout Canada. An idealistic who achieved his dreams‚ he changed the face of Canadian politics. He created the safety net which we have as Canadians today that ensures we will always have the help we need. Tommy Douglas is what made Canada’s healthcare what it is‚ allowing people to get healthcare when they need it. Tommy Douglas is known as the “Father of Medicare” because
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