Download or read book A Study of Maine s Medicaid Program written by Maine. Legislature. Joint Standing Committee on Performance Audit and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maine s Medicaid Program written by Maine. Department of Human Services and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maine Hospital Association Tax and Match Impact Study written by Maine Hospital Association and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maine Department of Human Services Medicaid Program Report written by Maine. Department of Human Services and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maine Medicaid written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding MaineCare written by Rachel Garfield and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Medicaid Plan for Children and Families of Maine written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maine s Health Insurance Programs written by Robert A. Frates and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Healthcare Imperative written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Your Guide to Medicaid in Maine written by Maine. Department of Human Services and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Working Longer written by Claudia Goldin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so? Today’s older American women work full-time jobs at greater rates than women in other developed countries. In Women Working Longer, editors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz assemble new research that presents fresh insights on the phenomenon of working longer. Their findings suggest that education and work experience earlier in life are connected to women’s later-in-life work. Other contributors to the volume investigate additional factors that may play a role in late-life labor supply, such as marital disruption, household finances, and access to retirement benefits. A pioneering study of recent trends in older women’s labor force participation, this collection offers insights valuable to a wide array of social scientists, employers, and policy makers.
Download or read book Medicaid in Maine written by Maine. Department of Health and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Maine s catastrophic illness program 1975 1980 written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Votes for Medicaid Expansion written by David A. Matsa and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2017, Maine became the first state in the nation to vote on a key provision of the Affordable Care Act: the expansion of Medicaid. We analyze local voting results to identify characteristics of areas that support Medicaid expansion. Support is strongly correlated with voter education. Places with more bachelor's degree holders more often vote in favor, whereas those with more associate's degree graduates vote against. Other patterns are consistent with economic self-interest. Conditional on education rates, areas with more uninsured individuals who would qualify for expanded coverage tend to vote in favor, while those with more high-income individuals vote against. Also conditional on education rates, greater hospitals employment is associated with support for expansion, but the presence of other health professionals, whose incomes might decrease from expansion, is associated with less support. Extrapolating from Maine to other states, our model predicts that hypothetical referendums on Medicaid expansion would pass in five of the 18 states that had not yet expanded Medicaid coverage.
Download or read book Report of the Task Force to Evaluate and Revise the Maine Health Program Phase One written by Maine. Task Force to Evaluate and Revise the Maine Health Program and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Task Force to Evaluate and Revise the Maine Health Program Phase 2 written by Maine. Task Force to Evaluate and Revise the Maine Health Program and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Practices in Rural Medicaid Managed Behavioral Health written by David Hartley (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVERVIEW: Most states are currently enrolling some or all of their Medicaid population in managed care, and many are choosing to separate the financing and management of mental health from physical health benefits. These arrangements are often referred to as mental health carve-outs. In 1997, staff at the Maine Rural Health Research Center completed a study of six rural states that had implemented managed mental health in their Medicaid programs. One major finding of that study was that states have not taken advantage of the experience of other states as they implement these programs (Lambert et al, 1998). With this series of papers, we hope to encourage states that are designing or modifying their Medicaid mental health programs to consider the "best practices" of other states. These papers are designed to develop practical and useful guidance for states and managed behavioral health firms on approaches and strategies for addressing the special needs and circumstances associated with implementing a mental health carve-out in rural areas. While managed behavioral health raises many of the same concerns currently being raised about managed medical care, such as provider choice, use of financial incentives to limit appropriate care, and interference with the physician-patient relationship, this series of papers is narrowly focused on those issues with a unique rural element. In our previous study, we identified several such issues. After consulting with national experts in the field of managed behavioral health, we selected four topics for inclusion in this series. Since insufficient access to a wide variety of services has been a constant theme in rural studies, and access to mental health providers has been especially hard to achieve, we begin the series with "Measuring and Monitoring Access". Those who read all four papers will find that access and under supply of providers and services are mentioned throughout the series. Similarly, the significant role of primary care practitioners in providing mental health services in the absence of mental health specialty providers is a recurring theme in this series. These recurring themes have resulted in some repetition in the series. Since some readers may not read the entire series, we feel that such redundancy is unavoidable. Each paper can be read as a separate piece. In each paper the authors have presented some background material by way of indicating what problems exist and why this topic was chosen for the series. We then present "best practices", specific programs, policies or practices that are currently being used in one or more states to address those problems. In many cases, the interviews and research conducted by the authors turned up practices that are being considered or recommended in one or more states. We have labeled these "recommended practices" because they have not yet been tried and proven, but appear promising. Because managed behavioral health is relatively new to Medicaid programs, neither our best practices nor our recommended practices have been rigorously evaluated. Several of the states cited in these papers for their best practices are having their practices formally evaluated as required for 1115 demonstration waivers. As results of those evaluations become available, our recommendations may be modified. On the other hand, early results of evaluations have not been directed toward rural issues. It is our hope that Program Directors, policy makers, and practitioners can make use of the information in these papers, in the absence of rural-focused evaluation results. Such users may wish to contact the respective authors for the most current information on a specific practice. We expect that these programs will continue to be works in progress, with constant innovation and modification to meet the changing needs of Medicaid enrollees, and to respond to other policy initiatives such as welfare reforms, children's health insurance plans (CHIPs), and other legislative, organizational, and financing changes.
