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- Traditional Medicare loses appeal to doctors. Asplund, Jon // AHA News;10/2/95, Vol. 31 Issue 40, p3
Reports that traditional Medicare might remain an option for senior citizens but wonders whether there would be doctors willing to provide the service. Choices of medical care for senior citizens; Proposed cutbacks to medical care providers.
- Toward a prospective payment system for ambulatory surgery. Lion, Joanna; Vertrees, James // Health Care Financing Review;Spring90, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p79
Examines ambulatory surgery among the aged Medicare population in 1985. Arguments for diagnosis-related groups; How diagnosis-related groups perform; Arguments against diagnosis-related groups.
- Quality of ambulatory care for the elderly: Formulating evaluation criteria. Ferris, Ann K.; Wyszewianski, Leon // Health Care Financing Review;Fall90, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p31
Shows why and how assessments of ambulatory care services provided to Medicare beneficiaries should be based on criteria and standards of quality that explicitly reflect the specific needs and salient characteristics of the elderly. Implications for medical care; Development of new standards;...
- State-By-State Analysis Shows Proposed Bush 17% Medicare Program Cuts Is 'Cliff' // Insurance Advocate;4/8/2002, Vol. 113 Issue 13, p40
Analyzes the proposed Medicare program cuts of U.S. President George W. Bush on March 25, 2002.
- Give America's retirees access to prescription drugs. Findal, Bobby // New Orleans CityBusiness (1994 to 2008);07/31/2000, Vol. 21 Issue 5, p27
Focuses on the health care program for seniors citizens in the United States. Need to inclusion of prescription drugs in Medicare coverage; Factors inhibiting the reconstruction of Medicare program model; Efforts of Senator John Breaux and Representative Bill Thomas to modernized Medicare...
- This Side Of Medicare HMO Withdrawals Stinks. Koco, Linda // National Underwriter / Life & Health Financial Services;9/25/2000, Vol. 104 Issue 39, p17
Comments on the insurance problems facing United States seniors included on the number of people being dropped from the Medicare+Choice health maintenance organizations. Areas wherein seniors need help regarding their insurance problems; Alternatives open to seniors; Suggestions to insurers...
- Seniors in the dark on Medicare Plus. // Best's Review / Life-Health Insurance Edition;Aug98, Vol. 99 Issue 4, p16
Reports on the results of a national survey in the United States which reveals that a majority of seniors in the country do not understand the options available to them in the new Medicare Plus Choice program. Time available for health care companies before the expanded Medicare program goes...
- The Republican Medicare. MacLachlan, Suzanne; Coolidge, Shelley Donald // Christian Science Monitor;10/16/95, Vol. 87 Issue 224, p2
Anticipates the impact of the proposed Republican Medicare plan on the elderly population of America.
- The Republican Medicare. MacLachlan, Suzanne; Coolidge, Shelley Donald // Christian Science Monitor;10/16/95, Vol. 87 Issue 224, p2
Anticipates the impact of the proposed Republican Medicare plan on the elderly population of America.
- Use -25 modifier to bill for same-day visit and ECG. Self, Don // Geriatrics;Jan2001, Vol. 56 Issue 1, p60
Answers questions about Medicare. Why Medicare denies bill for an electrocardiogram and an office visit on the same day; Stance of Medicare on `rule-out' diagnosis; How evaluation and management services in addition to shoulder injection can be charged.
