Chapter 1 focuses on how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identifies and combats waste, fraud, and abuse in both traditional Medicare and the Medicare Advantage program.
Access to healthcare is a universal human right and universal health insurance is one of the instruments towards attainment of universal health coverage.
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution was established to foster policy innovation from leading economic thinkersideas based on evidence and experience, not ideology and doctrine.
Over the course of the last few years, our healthcare system has begun a shift toward rewarding physicians for the quality of care rather than the quantity, and building off these efforts, providers, doctors, health systems, and payers are willing to explore new value-based arrangements and open the door to providing new benefits for their beneficiaries.
This book is the first and only study on implementing Universal Health Coverage in poor, rural and informal settings, with end-to-end guidance for rolling out a demand-driven and needs-based health insurance model.
The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest.
Since January 1, 2014, most individuals have had to maintain health insurance coverage or pay a penalty for noncompliance implemented through the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).
Medicare is the largest health insurer in the United States, providing coverage for 39 million people aged 65 and older and 8 million people with disabilities, and reaching more than an estimated $500 billion in payments in 2010.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) contained a threat that any state refusing to set up a health insurance exchange would lose control to the federal government.
Medicare made simple Medicare brings valuable benefits to more than 58 million people and growing, but most of us don t even know the basics of how Medicare can work best for us.
This guide helps readers understand the past, present, and future of America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and medical coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.
This book is the first and only study on implementing Universal Health Coverage in poor, rural and informal settings, with end-to-end guidance for rolling out a demand-driven and needs-based health insurance model.
This guide helps readers understand the past, present, and future of America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and medical coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.
Medicare made simple Medicare brings valuable benefits to more than 58 million people and growing, but most of us don t even know the basics of how Medicare can work best for us.
The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest.
This guide helps readers understand the past, present, and future of America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and medical coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.
The 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program) and the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program require manufacturers to provide discounts on outpatient drugs in order to have their drugs covered by Medicaid.
Das deutsche Gesundheitswesen gilt in vielen Teilen als Vorbild für andere Länder - beispielsweise durch den allgemeinen und einkommensunabhängigen Zugang zu Gesundheitsleistungen, den umfassenden Versicherungsschutz sowie die freie Wahl der Krankenversicherung und unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen eine weitgehend freie Arztwahl.
A Brookings Institution Press and Urban Institute publicationFew people realize that one of the nation's largest health programs runs through the tax system.
Fifty essays on the state of population health from a vanguard voice in the fieldPublic health can rightly claim its share of victories: healthier cities, widespread sanitation, broader availability of nutrient-rich food, and reductions in violence and injury.
Since 2014, millions of individuals have purchased coverage through the health insurance exchanges established under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in the United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income Americans.
