Regulatory Agency Regulatory agencies are put in place to ensure that health care organizations and the providers within them promote safety‚ legal compliance‚ and quality care for patients. Regulating health care is vital because if health care organizations were not required to be accredited patients would not feel safe when seeking health care services. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations otherwise known as JCAHO is a regulatory agency. The JCAHO “conducts periodic
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(DHMH): He is considered to be an internal stakeholder‚ The Deputy executive of the Office of finance: Internal stakeholder‚ The Director of the Maryland Department of Budget and Management: External stakeholder‚ and The staff for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS): External stakeholder. 1- The Secretary of Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) The Secretary is the most powerful person in the department. I was appointed by him and I have the duty and the obligation to
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THE HENDERSONS FINANCIAL PLAN Survivor Needs Analysis In case of an inconvenient passing‚ survivors might be left without the family unit salary expected to maintain their current way of life. Disaster Insurance scope is prescribed in a sum that will guarantee adequate progressing wage‚ and in addition cover prompt needs‚ for example‚ last costs. Deciding appropriate levels of disaster Insurance includes a correlation of present and future family cost levels with expected surviving companion’s profit
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The Continuum of Long-Term Health Care Lisa Lewis HCS/310 August 9‚ 2010 John Dean The Continuum of Long-Term Health Care Health care is a fascinating industry. So many types of care are included within the industry. Health care can be very broad or very specific. Health care is also comprised of different types of health care. One specific sector is long-term health care. Long-term care plays a huge role in the health care continuum. This paper will define long-term care
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federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1987; established regulations for nursing homes receiving federal funding that includes reimbursements from Medicare or Medicaid programs. It was signed by President Ronald Reagan‚ and it was the first major revision to the federal standards for nursing home care since the creation of both Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. This legislation changed the legal expectations of nursing homes and their care. If nursing homes do not comply with these regulations
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Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau with the assistance of Paul Newhouse Management ‚ Policy‚ and Community Health School of Public Health University of Texas Health Science Center Houston‚ Texas‚ USA I. Types of post-acute‚ institutional‚ residential‚ and community-based settings for older adults II. Types of clients served in select settings III. Facility and patient demographics IV. Payment and cost of long-term care V. Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program (CLASS Act)
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material aid‚ medical therapeutic services‚ personal care‚ respite‚ shopping assistance‚ transportation‚ and other community-based services. The total cost of senior care for any family depends on the length of time for which care is required. Medicare‚ Medicaid and health insurance rarely pay for the costs‚ long term care insurance might‚ but most often this is an out-of-pocket cost. The following 4 agencies offer services to meet the needs of seniors‚ including community resources for elderly
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Continuum of Care- Long-term Care Long-term care has and is continuing to become an important part of the continuum of care. Years ago Long-term care (LTC) was considered only to be for the elderly‚ but as time passes it is for anybody and everybody who needs it. Barton (2006) stated‚ “Regardless of the length of time (i.e.‚ from weeks to years)‚ long-term care is an array of services provided in a range of settings to individuals who have lost some capacity for independence due to injury‚ chronic
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simple billing errors that can create this‚ Medicare fraud normally arises when a physician‚ provider‚ or supplier is trying to steal from Medicare by fabricating services or products given to patients. While most people consider Healthcare fraud the same as Healthcare abuse‚ there is a big difference in meaning. Abuse differs‚ because abuse is committed when healthcare providers do not use Medicare’s processes which can exponentiate the costs to Medicare. There is a big difference between fraud and
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Myths and Reality are very far apart when it comes actually being placed or living in a nursing home. After working at a couple of private owned nursing facilities and two state funded nursing facilities I was able to see first hand the difference in the two. This also allowed me to eradicate these so called questions or myths. According to a reprint from the American Health Care Association; "Many myths‚ or misconceptions‚ persist about nursing facility life. In the past decade‚ nursing facilities
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