Thus, a main goal of an HMO and other insurance companies is to eliminate the use of any unnecessary ancillary services ordered during the course of treatment of a patient. ... (Wehrwein) Insurance companies and managed care organizations often provide educational seminars on their plans. ... Insurance companies and managed care organizations often provide detailed reports to primary care physicians on their patients" referral patterns. ... When a provider in a group is found by an insurance company or HMO to over-utilize, often the entire practice is penalized financially. ... With con...

• Word Count: 2520
• Approx Pages: 10
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The article reviewed policies that are in effect in four major hospitals; of these only one hospital said, "doctors should act to support eh patients life when life extending health care is wanted" (james 250). ... They are justified by the dirty little secrets that all medical personal are being taught, that medical treatment can be stopped when the doctors, (added by the ethics committees and insurance companies) decides that you are going to die anyway so they are not going to do anything. ...

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Steinberg and other surgeons travels to those foreign countries to perform surgery for those patients depending on their parents military affiliations, specific insurances or nothing at all due to an organization called Future Faces, that help children with cost of surgery due to facial deformities. ... The modest body of scholars on patients traveling to China, India, and Pakistan for organ transplants suggests that financial gain out of transplantation surgeries substantially increases morbidity and mortality rates". (10) The advantages of medical tourism is lower labor and living co...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The reform program developed in 1990/1991 laid the foundations for a transition to a mandatory health insurance system. At the end of the 20th century, the collapse of the Soviet Union and ensuing radical changes in the country's social and economic policy engendered healthcare problems and systemic challenges, many of which are yet to be addressed. ... Deficits in the funding of regional mandatory health insurance (MHI) programs were recorded in 58 federal regions of the Russian Federation (29.2 billion rubles). MHI funds are channeled to treatment facilities via private insurance compan...

• Word Count: 998
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

Healthcare administrators are responsible for establishing healthcare standards, making strategic policy decisions and implementing the personal management procedures necessary to support their vision. They partner with other healthcare organizations, comply with government regulations, advocate and testify on behalf of healthcare policies and maintain campuses that are significant to communities. ... Another challenge related to the unique characteristics of healthcare organizations would be that hospital administrators must keep up with advances in medicine, technology and government regulat...

• Word Count: 1130
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Was it because most of the black population in Atlanta cannot afford proper health care and general physicians or maybe it is because the diagnostic tests are so expensive and most of the insurance policies that these people have don't cover preventive medicine or tests. ...

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Increase in health costs, continued failure to establish a viable health insurance structure for the country, research demonstrating large variations in physician practice, the advent of evidence-based medicine and the quality and patient safety movements, the availability of clinical information systems supporting the efforts of the latter, and most recently, problems relating to the conflict of interest have all provided significant opposition in pursuing health care professionalism throughout organizations (MacKenzie, 2007). ... Although there are steady changes of technology, policies and...

• Word Count: 1026
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Commission surveyors paged through an organization's notebooks, crammed with minutes of meetings and documents of policies and procedures, and they listened to presentations that had been carefully and meticulously prepared"(2008).The advancing pursuit of high standards should not be something we have to "get ready for", it should be a way of life." ... The final benefit is that it can trim the organizations liability insurance premiums. Insurance companies, like AIG, acknowledge the importance of the Joint Commissions accreditation by offering special discounts and credits on annual pr...

• Word Count: 1507
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In corporate liability cases victims must prove negligence due to lack of: (1) duty in providing proper maintenance of safe and adequate facilities and equipment; (2) selecting and retaining competent physicians; (3) oversight on persons practicing medicine within facilities where care was given; (4) adequate policies and rules that ensure adequate quality of care (Hoffman & Podgurski, 2009). ...

• Word Count: 2010
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These health disparities largely result from differences in socioeconomic status and insurance status. ... The growth of various ethnic communities and linguistic groups, each with its own cultural traits and health profiles, presents a complex challenge to healthcare practitioners and policy makers in terms of achieving equitable access. ... "Several recent federal policy initiatives address the issue of low health literacy. ...

• Word Count: 1994
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These include programs to prevent diabetes in Los Angeles, prevent teen suicides in San Diego, and increase health insurance rates in San Francisco. These are all effective programs that prevent disease and lower the costs of healthcare and health insurance for all Californians. ... County health status reports provide important information on health conditions, the lack of health insurance, death rates, etc., by race and ethnicity at the local level. ...

• Word Count: 2581
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The principle of respect for autonomy does not apply to people not in a position to act in an autonomous manner. This means that infants, suicidal people, and drug-dependent patients may be validly controlled on the grounds of beneficence to protect them from harm.1 Under the principle of beneficenc...

• Word Count: 2553
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We feel the price of our service is somewhat contingent on "reasonable and customary" fees dictated by insurance companies. ... There is a threat from insurance companies who determine what doctor bill will be paid and at what fee. ...

• Word Count: 4065
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since more than sixty-five percent of entire population are non-Kuwaitis, the state has funded a public insurance scheme, to provide them reduced cost health care. ... The non-Kuwaiti residents are provided with full and high quality health services through medical insurance (Central Statistical Bureau, 2013, 19). ... The state has recognized the problem and decided to minimize the level od dependency on foreigners over some years by setting up a Kuwaitization policy stipulating to educate and train Kuwaiti doctors, however, this doesn't refer on nursing (World Health Organization, 2014, ...

• Word Count: 3308
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School