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    Medicare Comparison

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    Medicare and Medicaid There are various types of insurances in today’s world. Two of them being Medicare and Medicaid. Founded in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s "Great Society"‚ they share differences and few similarities. They are social insurance programs that allow the financial burdens of illness to be shared among health and sick individuals‚ and affluent and low income families. Medicare is a federal program that provides health coverage if yon are 65 years or older‚ are a younger

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    History of Medicare

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    History of Medicare HCS 530 Professor Michele Fletcher December 4‚ 2006 Background The Social Security system‚ which was created as an economic safety net for older Americans‚ was failing to protect them against the greatest single cause of economic dependency in old age which was the high cost of medical care. The need for a social insurance program to provide older Americans with reliable health care coverage started within the Social Security Administration

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    Maintain Medicare

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    obtain Medicare is very comforting. Medicare is a federal health care program that was put in place by Congress in 1965 to provide health insurance to Americans sixty-five and above. Medicare was then expanded in 1972 to also cover younger individuals who are disabled (Kaiser‚ 2012). Traditional Medicare provides coverage to all Americans sixty-five and older without taking into account income. Prior to Medicare a whopping fifty percent of seniors lacked health coverage (Center for Medicare Advocacy

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    Medicare and Ssi

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    original Social Security mandate was also expanded to include Medicare and Medicaid (Advance).” Some other changes more recently have added more benefits to this well known plan. “The most significant legislative change to Medicare--called the Medicare Modernization Act or MMA--was signed into law by another President from Texas‚ George W. Bush‚ on December 8‚ 2003. This historic legislation adds an outpatient prescription drug benefit to Medicare and makes many other important changes (Cms).” With the

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    Medicare Fraud

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    MEDICARE FRAUD Bobby Brown Colorado Technical University Medicare Fraud occurs when someone intentionally falsifies information or deceives Medicare (www.medicare.gov). Strike force accused ninety-four people across the U.S. The charges are based on several fraud schemes including Physical Therapy schemes‚ Healthcare schemes‚ HIV infusion schemes‚ and durable medical equipment schemes (Long-Term Living‚ Aug.2010‚ vol.59 issue 8‚ p10-10‚8/9p). These schemes exceeded $225 million in false

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    In this research paper I will discuss policies that affects older adults. I choose to research Medicare because is one of the biggest polices that affect the elderly. ‪I will research the following‚ the parts of Medicare including the "doughnut hole" advantage cuts‚ what’s covered‚ what’s provided‚ Policy Challenges‚ Benefits and Affordability. Medicare as we know it today came into existence in July of 1965 during the Johnson Administration. Franklin Roosevelt’s administration was the first to

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    Medicare and Medicaid

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    II. About Medicare 4 III. About Medicaid 5 III. Fraud & Abuse of Medicare 7 IV. Fraud & Abuse of Medicaid 8 V. Prevention Program Methods/Reform for Medicare & Medicaid 9 VI. Conclusion 12 References 13 Executive Summary With the ever-changing difficulties of our health insurance landscape‚ the government has taken a more active role in the health care and well-being of American citizens. With this shift‚ programs like Medicare and Medicaid‚ become polarizing topics in an environment

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    Medicare Advantage

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    Medicare Advantage The article I found is about Medicare Advantage and its main points are basically about how Obama and some democrats think that it is waste of money to have. But not everyone agrees with them. A Medicare Advantage Plan is a type of Medicare health plan offered by a private company that contracts with Medicare to provide you with all your Part A and Part B benefits. Medicare Advantage Plans include Health Maintenance Organizations‚ Preferred Provider

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    Medicare Modernization

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    December 8‚ 2003‚ President Bush signed into existence the Medicare Prescription Drug‚ Improvement‚ and Modernization Act (CMS‚ 2003). This Act over the years is intended to provide prescription drug benefits to seniors. It will also provide subsidies to insurance companies‚ health maintenance organizations‚ and would allow private plans to compete with Medicare (CMS‚ 2003). Why were changes to Medicare deemed necessary? The changes to Medicare where deemed necessary‚ because many seniors and elderly

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    Medicare Observation

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    the Medicare rule for observation is very complex and confusing. The intention of the rule is to set clinical criteria for observation‚ and rapidly discharge the patient in twenty-four hours. However‚ this does not always happen. Some observation patients can stay up to ninety-six hours before being discharged or switched to observation status. One of the problems is individual health care organization interprets the Medicare rule differently. Then if the patient had a managed care Medicare carrier

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