Team Project Team A Medicare/Medicaid You are employed by the local government and you have been assigned to work with a team in educating the health care consumers of your community about Medicare or Medicaid. You and your team have been tasked with creating a multimedia tool that will be made available at any My Section Focus on the level of government (Federal‚ state or local) and the function it had in the process of implementing the policy. Federal Government “Medicare is paid for through
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A How to Manual to Commit Medicare Fraud “Biggest Medicare Fraud in History Busted.” “Dallas Doctor Arrested for Alleged Role in Nearly $375 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.” These are headlines from www.abcnews.com and a press release from the US Department of Health and Social Services from February 28‚ 2012. The press release continues‚ “The FBI views health care fraud as a severe crime problem. It causes increased costs for consumers‚ tax payers and health insurance plans‚ and degrades
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In the article Medicare Under Observation‚ it is mentioned how unfair and ineffective the Affordable Care Act is for senior citizens in the United States. The article emphasizes on a letter written by a Medicare beneficiary who recently had gone to the emergency room to get treatment for a urinary tract infection and ended up having to stay for hours only to be told he was not going to be able to go home and he was being admitted into the hospital for observation which he claims that under the Affordable
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Legislative Assignment. APN Nursing is a large health care field that has enlarged its scope of practice over the years. In US history‚ the presence and influence of APNs was very important. The role of Nurse Practitioners has steadily expanded. First‚ was a horizontal movement to embrace expertise in medicine. Second‚ the scope moved vertically to encompass graduate nursing education. Since 1996 there has been a rapid‚ transformative evolution of the position APNs hold. Today APN Regulation
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The Cabinet Definition of Cabinet A Cabinet is a body of high ranking members of the government‚ typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers‚ an Executive Council‚ or Executive Committee. First Malaysia Cabinet The first cabinet of Malaysia traces its history back to 1955‚ it was formed to save temporarily before Malaya’s independence in 1957. The Cabinet Board 1955 Portfolio | Name | Chief Minister | Tunku Abdul
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develop in a hospitalized patient.” “Pressure to Change” Medicare like all health insurers is constantly looking for ways to avoid paying for unnecessary medical care. The latest attempt sounds perfectly reasonable until you consider who will bear the burden. Problem: Last year federal centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that they would no longer reimburse hospitals for treatment of new pressure sores in Medicare patients. The ruling‚ known as the Inpatient Prospective Payment
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Medicare Never Pay Events Medicare Never Pay Events Medicare is currently the primary healthcare insurer of the elderly in the United States of America. Medicare‚ which is funded by the federal government‚ paid providers $444 billion dollars in 2008 for healthcare expenses (National Healthcare and Medicare Spending‚ 2010). Due to enormous expenses‚ Medicare implemented changes during 2008 to improve patient safety and reduce cost by eliminating reimbursement to those who provide unsafe care
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Legislative History Must be used When the wording of a statute is not clear and explicit‚ then it is difficult to know how a particular statute should be applied. Supreme Court Justice Scalia wrongly clams that legislative history should not be used when interpreting an ambiguous statute’s meaning. He is wrong to state that it is undemocratic to use legislative history because legislators‚ staffers‚ and lobbyists are all a part of the process of the creation of statutes. Legislators often intentionally
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Johnson signed a bill‚ establishing both Medicare and Medicaid (cite). Initially‚ Medicare served to provide health coverage and payment of doctor and hospital visits‚ dental care‚ nursing services‚ etc. (cite). At the time‚ only 56% of individuals over the age of 65 acquired health insurance‚ thus leading Congress to extend the benefits in 1972 to end-stage renal failure and disabled patients‚ along with patients over 65 years of age (cite). Since then‚ Medicare has developed into a vast system with
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Artist Should Not Be A Legislative Member (CONTRA) Legislative is one of Indonesian institute that have power to amend‚ create and expel the laws. As we know‚ recently there is a lot of artists participate in politic. But our group think that .. it’s not a problem if an artist want to be eee… politician. Firstly firstly..‚ all of Indonesian people have right to choose or to be chosen in politic. This statement.. also fully supported by one of Indonesian bill eee… based on Indonesian bill
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