Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Medicare Handbook
Author: Improving the Medicare Market
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175364
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Medicare beneficiaries are rapidly moving into managed care, as attempts to restrain the growth of this costly entitlement program progress. However, advocates for patients question whether the necessary information and structures are in place to enable Medicare consumers to select wisely among private-sector managed care options. Improving the Medicare Market examines how to give Medicare beneficiaries the same choice of health plan options enjoyed in the private sectorâ€"yet protect them as consumers and patients. This book recommends approaches to ensuring accountability and informed purchasing for Medicare beneficiaries in an environment of broader choice and managed careâ€"how the government should evaluate and approve plans, what role the traditional Medicare program should play, how to help to elderly understand their options, and many other practical matters. The committee discusses the information requirements of Medicare beneficiaries and explores in detail how best to respond to their special needs. And it examines the procedures that should be developed to provide the necessary protections for the elderly in a managed care system.
Title XX Social Services
Author: Maximize Your Medicare: 2020-2021 Edition
Author: Jae OhPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621537552
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"A must-read for both current and future retirees." —Robert Powell, Retirement Daily Includes the Most Up-to-Date Information for 2020-2021 Confused by Medicare? Get answers from Maximize Your Medicare, an informative guide by nationally recognized expert Jae W. Oh. Maximize Your Medicare helps readers understand how and what to choose when deciding on Medicare options. This book shows readers how to: Enroll in Medicare and avoid never-ending penalties Compare Medigap vs. Medicare Advantage Discern the differences among Parts A, B, and D Increase benefits every year Avoid costly errors Deal with special circumstances Get the most from the plan Written in a clear and concise style, Maximize Your Medicare is a vital resource for every American aged sixty-five or older, as well as for their families and care coordinators.
Special Business Problems Confronting Medical Practitioners Resulting from Changes in Medicare Payment Practices
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Exports, Tax Policy, and Special ProblemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care, Cost of
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Medicare Hospice Benefits
Author: Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care
Author: Rick MayesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801888875
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is the definitive work on Medicare’s prospective payment system (PPS), which had its origins in the 1972 Social Security Amendments, was first applied to hospitals in 1983, and came to fruition with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Here, Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson, M.D., explain how Medicare’s innovative payment system triggered shifts in power away from the providers (hospitals and doctors) to the payers (government insurers and employers) and how providers have responded to encroachments on their professional and financial autonomy. They conclude with a discussion of the problems with the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and offer prescriptions for how policy makers can use Medicare payment policy to drive improvements in the U.S. health care system. Mayes and Berenson draw from interviews with more than sixty-five major policy makers—including former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin, U.S. Representatives Pete Stark and Henry Waxman, former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, and former administrators of the Health Care Financing Administration Gail Wilensky, Bruce Vladeck, Nancy-Ann DeParle, and Tom Scully—to explore how this payment system worked and its significant effects on the U.S. medical landscape in the past twenty years. They argue that, although managed care was an important agent of change in the 1990s, the private sector has not been the major health care innovator in the United States; rather, Medicare’s transition to PPS both initiated and repeatedly intensified the economic restructuring of the U.S. health care system.
Maximize Your Medicare: 2024-2025 Edition
Author: Jae OhPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621538311
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"Jae Oh’s Maximize Your Medicare is the best book I’ve read on understanding all of the Medicare options and how Medicare intersects with other health insurance options." —Wade Pfau, Professor of Retirement Income at The American College Includes the Most Up-to-Date Information for 2024-2025 Confused by Medicare? Get answers from Maximize Your Medicare, an informative guide by nationally recognized expert Jae W. Oh. Maximize Your Medicare helps readers understand how and what to choose when deciding on Medicare options. This book shows readers how to: Enroll in Medicare and avoid never-ending penalties Compare Medigap vs. Medicare Advantage Discern the differences among Parts A, B, and D Increase benefits every year Avoid costly errors Deal with special circumstances Get the most from the plan Additional information for this new edition includes: Putting it Together: the steps you need to take to be a Savvy Medicare Consumer New coverage options for Diabetes and End-Stage Renal Disease patients How the ACA enhancements can change your retirement decision-making path Written in a clear and concise style, Maximize Your Medicare is a vital resource for every American aged sixty-five or older, as well as for their families and care coordinators. ged sixty-five or older, as well as for their families and care coordinators.
Doing Business with Medicare
Author: Peter M. KazonMedicare
Author: Ronald J. VogelPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472110605
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Examines political and economic strategy and offers a blueprint for the structural reform of Medicare