Author: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Report to the Congress, Medicare Payment Policy
Author: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
MedPAC's Annual March Report
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Medicare Primer
Author: Patricia A. DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This report provides a general overview of the Medicare program including descriptions of the program's history, eligibility criteria, covered services, provider payment systems, and program administration and financing.
MedPAC's Annual March Report to Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Recommendations to the Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Pepper CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
MedPAC's Annual March Report to the Congress on Medicare Payment Policy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program
Author: Improving Medicare
Author: Adam K. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN: 9781611229042
Category : Health care reform
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Medicare program enables millions of beneficiaries to obtain health care services; however, lacks many of the essential elements of a high-quality, high-value and efficient health system. Program spending and utilisation have increased substantially, without corresponding improvements in beneficiaries' health. This new and important book describes the need for Medicare to move away from payment policies that encourage service volume and are indifferent to quality and toward policies that promote better value for Medicare and its beneficiaries.
The Healthcare Imperative
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309144337
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.
Medicare Laboratory Payment Policy
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309183618
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Clinical laboratory tests play an integral role in helping physicians diagnose and treat patients. New developments in laboratory technology offer the prospect of improvements in diagnosis and care, but will place an increased burden on the payment system. Medicare, the federal program providing coverage of health-care services for the elderly and disabled, is the largest payer of clinical laboratory services. Originally designed in the early 1980s, Medicare's payment policy methodology for outpatient laboratory services has not evolved to take into account technology, market, and regulatory changes, and is now outdated. This report examines the current Medicare payment methodology for outpatient clinical laboratory services in the context of environmental and technological trends, evaluates payment policy alternatives, and makes recommendations to improve the system.