Download or read book Trends in Indian Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eligibility for Health Care Services Provided by Indian Health Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian health care written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian health care written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Health Service written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to health care services for American Indians and Alaska Natives has been a long standing concern.1 The Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is charged with providing health care to the approximately 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who are members or descendants of federally recognized tribes.2 These services are provided at federally or tribally operated health care facilities,3 which receive IHS funding and are located in 12 geographic regions overseen by IHS area offices.4 These IHS-funded facilities vary in the services that they provide. For example, some facilities offer comprehensive hospital services, while others offer only primary care services. When services are not available at these facilities, the agency's contract health services (CHS) program may pay for services from external health care providers, including hospital- and office-based providers. The CHS program is administered at the local level by individual CHS programs generally affiliated with IHS-funded facilities in each area. These individual CHS programs may be federally or tribally operated. These federal and tribal CHS programs determine whether or not to pay for the referral of a patient to an external provider or pay an external provider for a service already provided. IHS requires that patients meet certain eligibility and administrative requirements to have the services paid by the CHS program. In addition, the CHS program, which is funded through the annual appropriations process, must operate within the limits of its appropriations. Therefore, committees associated with each CHS program meet at least weekly to review cases and approve payment based on the relative medical need of each case. When the requirements have not been met or funds are not available, CHS programs defer or deny requests to pay for services. Services for which patients otherwise meet necessary requirements, but for which CHS program funds are not available for payment, are known as unfunded services. Limits on available resources have affected the specific types of services available to American Indians and Alaska Natives through the CHS program. For example, in a 2005 report examining 13 IHS-funded health care facilities, we reported that primary care services were generally offered at the facilities, but certain specialty and other services were not always directly available to American Indians and Alaska Natives.5 These facilities also generally lacked funds to pay for all of these services through their CHS programs. We also noted that, in some cases, gaps in services resulted in diagnosis or treatment delays that exacerbated the severity of a patient's condition and required more intensive treatment.
Download or read book Indian Health Service written by Kathleen M. King and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Health Service (IHS) provides care to American Indians and Alaska Natives through a system of health care facilities. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) provides states the option to expand their Medicaid programs and creates new health care coverage options, including for American Indians and Alaska Natives, beginning in 2014. This report (1) estimated the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives potentially eligible for the expanded and new coverage options; and (2) reviewed efforts by IHS, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), states, tribal organizations, and facilities to promote enrollment of American Indians and Alaska Natives in current programs and expanded and new coverage options, and any challenges associated with their enrollment. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand reoprt.
Download or read book Indian Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.
Download or read book Indian Health Service written by United States. Indian Health Service and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical and Dental Expenses written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Access to Contract Health Services in Indian Country written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Health Service written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " IHS provides care to American Indians and Alaska Natives through a system of health care facilities. PPACA provides states the option to expand their Medicaid programs and creates new health care coverage options, including for American Indians and Alaska Natives, beginning in 2014. PPACA also requires GAO to study IHS's coordination with public programs. In this report, GAO (1) estimated the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives potentially eligible for the expanded and new coverage options and (2) reviewed efforts by IHS, CMS, states, tribal organizations, and facilities to promote enrollment of American Indians and Alaska Natives in current programs and expanded and new coverage options, and any challenges associated with their enrollment. To address the objectives, GAO (1) analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data and (2) interviewed IHS and CMS officials and state, facility, and tribal officials from three IHS areas with high levels of uninsured. "
Download or read book Caring and Curing written by James P. Rife and published by PHS COF. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Health Service health care services are not always available to Native Americans report to the Committee on Indian Affairs U S Senate written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Health Service written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to congressional requests, GAO reviewed the availability of health care services to American Indians and Alaska Natives residing in five Indian Health Service (IHS) areas, focusing on: (1) the differences in health care delivery in the five areas; (2) the availability of basic health care services; and (3) major health care needs warranting additional attention. GAO found that: (1) two IHS areas provided most health care services through large medical centers, two areas relied on public or private contractors to provide essential services, and one service area provided hospital and contractor-provided care; (2) health care services, including basic medical and surgical treatment and diagnostic services, are generally available in all five areas, but the availability of preventive and dental care services is limited; (3) Indians do not utilize available preventive care services; (4) IHS officials are concerned that contract-care problems including funding limitations, procedural burdens, and restrictive eligibility criteria lessen the availability of some nonemergency services; (5) geographic isolation of the service population and the existence of alternate health programs such as Medicaid has affected the availability of services in many areas; (6) alcohol and substance abuse services and related mental health services are the greatest unmet health care needs in IHS service areas; (7) Congress has expanded IHS authority and increased funding for alcoholism and substance abuse prevention and treatment services; (8) IHS has no comprehensive data on the rates of alcoholism and substance abuse in Indian communities, tribal initiatives, or the effectiveness of IHS and tribal prevention and treatment programs; and (9) IHS is seeking funding for a study of alcohol and substance abuse in Indian communities and has discussed research needs with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Download or read book Indian Health Service written by Isaac Dubois and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Health Service (IHS) is an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that provides health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives. When care at an IHS-funded facility is unavailable, IHS's Contract Health Service (CHS) program pays for care from non-IHS providers if the patient meets certain requirements and funding is available. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the administration of the CHS program, including a focus on the allocation of funds. IHS uses three primary methods to determine the allocation of CHS funds to the 12 IHS geographic area offices: base funding, which accounts for most of the allocation; annual adjustments; and program increases, which are provided to expand the CHS program. This book examines (1) the extent to which IHS's allocation of CHS funding varied across IHS areas, and (2) what steps IHS has taken to address funding variation within the CHS program.
Download or read book Leadership by Example written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government operates six major health care programs that serve nearly 100 million Americans. Collectively, these programs significantly influence how health care is provided by the private sector. Leadership by Example explores how the federal government can leverage its unique position as regulator, purchaser, provider, and research sponsor to improve care - not only in these six programs but also throughout the nation's health care system. The book describes the federal programs and the populations they serve: Medicare (elderly), Medicaid (low income), SCHIP (children), VHA (veterans), TRICARE (individuals in the military and their dependents), and IHS (native Americans). It then examines the steps each program takes to assure and improve safety and quality of care. The Institute of Medicine proposes a national quality enhancement strategy focused on performance measurement of clinical quality and patient perceptions of care. The discussion on which this book focuses includes recommendations for developing and pilot-testing performance measures, creating an information infrastructure for comparing performance and disseminating results, and more. Leadership by Example also includes a proposed research agenda to support quality enhancement. The third in the series of books from the Quality of Health Care in America project, this well-targeted volume will be important to all readers of To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm - as well as new readers interested in the federal government's role in health care.
