Goal: To reconcile the Medicare report biweekly on time, and without affecting my regular workflow. This goal fits the SMART model as follows:
Specific: because I am the only person involved. The reason
for adults who will be applying for Medicare benefits at the present time, or sometime in the near…
1- How could his physician’s office have prevented this problem? I think that the physician with it avoid this situation if they have Communication this is the most important point for a successful resolution of this kind of problem .…
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 Care Act law Medicare will not pay anything on. This left him very puzzled and wondering how come he needed to stay over a period of two to three days. This being the case, he would have to be responsible for paying this medical bill in full…
If you are unable to complete it on time, others could reprioritise their others tasks in order to give you more time to complete it, or they may offer to let you delegate some of the work that needs to be completed so that you have less to do and can then complete the task on time.…
My two specific goals for English 1010 is for me to get more comfortable with my writing and become more organized. I don’t like writing so I usually wait to the last minute and my paper don’t be as good as it could be. I want to work on planning out what I want to do each day for my paper so it can be an easier process…
Medicare was created in 1965 to help senior citizens and disabled citizens with access to health care if they did not have commercial health insurance. In 2014, 54 million Americans are receiving Medicare benefits. As stated by Emily P. Walker, Medicare is “considered both a huge success that has markedly improved the health of the nation’s elderly and an unbelievably complex, unsustainable program that accounts for an ever-increasing portion…
Person eligible for Medicare include individuals ages sixty-five and over, those with disabilities, and those with end-stage renal disease (Hammaker, 2011). here are three basic entitlement categories: persons 65 years of age or over who are eligible for retirement under Social Security or the railroad retirement system, persons under 65 years of age who have been entitled for at least 2 years to disability benefits under Social Security or the railroad retirement system, and persons with ESRD who do not otherwise meet the age or disability requirements. The latter two groups together are known as the "under 65" enrollees (Petrie, 1992).…
Thank you both for your comments. As you have both mentioned the Medicare rule for observation is very complex and confusing. The intention of the rule is to set clinical criteria for observation, and rapidly discharge the patient in twenty-four hours. However, this does not always happen. Some observation patients can stay up to ninety-six hours before being discharged or switched to observation status. One of the problems is individual health care organization interprets the Medicare rule differently. Then if the patient had a managed care Medicare carrier, the rules may be different. This makes observation status for an organization nightmare to manage (Hockenberry, Parlato, & Ross, 2014). What I find even worse, observation increases the…
I value all your positive impact for the fight to improve the health care services for all citizens in twenty-four district of Florida. Your commitment to serve the surrounding communities is outstanding and felt by all person who has a meeting with you. In the case of the health policy, Medicare, your unwavering work to fight for the rights of all individuals have been supported by Congress to expand the Medicare benefits plans for all Americans. The future of health reform tries to help establish a country that recognizes that all Americans’ need health coverage. The cost of health care coverage is excessively high, and many American families cannot afford health care services without the assistance of government support programs such as…
References: Davis K, & Collins S. (2005-2006). Medicare at 40. Health Care Financing Review 27(2):53-62.…
Prior to 1965, it was almost impossible for people 65 years and older to get a private health insurance. Medicare was enacted in 1965 to counter the growing health care costs and provide access to the elderly, making health care a universal right for all Americans 65 years and older. (Medicare & You, 2013)…
On December 8, 2003, President Bush signed into existence the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (CMS, 2003). This Act over the years is intended to provide prescription drug benefits to seniors. It will also provide subsidies to insurance companies, health maintenance organizations, and would allow private plans to compete with Medicare (CMS, 2003).…
References: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (2010). Medicaid Program - General Information. Retrieved from http://www.cms.gov/MedicaidGenInfo/…
that money, perhaps a lot of it, is fraud, but experts differ on exactly how…
Negotiate for what?: House Democrats have approved a Medicare bill. Too bad they put politics ahead of cost savings. (2007, January 17). Akron Beacon Journal (OH), Retrieved March 8, 2009, from Newspaper Source database.…