Download or read book Health Care Financing for Severe Developmental Disabilities written by Arnold Birenbaum and published by American Association. This book was released on 1990 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce document dresse le profil de l'utilisation, du développement et du financement de services de santé et de services sociaux pour des enfants ou de jeunes adultes étant autistes ou ayant un retard mental sévère ou profond. Le but de cette enquête était de fournir les données nécessaires à l'élaboration d'une politique de services publiques.
Download or read book Medicaid Financing of Services for Developmentally Disabled Persons written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Financing Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing Health Care for Women with Disabilities written by Janice C. Blanchard and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women with disabilities, a large and growing segment of the U.S. population, are as a group underserved in primary health care services that are appropriate to their needs. To date, few (if any) formal studies have been done examining the short- term costs or long-term benefits of providing specialized care for these women. This paper describes the major financial issues affecting access to appropriate primary health care for women with disabilities. The assessment is based on a review of the published literature, supplemented by key stakeholder interviews, and covers issues that are relevant at the national level and in southwestern Pennsylvania specifically. The findings and recommendations should be of interest to public and private decisionmakers seeking to improve access to health care for women with disabilities"--P. iii.
Download or read book Health Care Financing Administration Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 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 The Health Care Financing Maze for Working Age People with Disabilities written by Nanette J. Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People with disabilities often require substantial medical services and supports to lead fulfilling lives. Health care expenditures for working-age people with disabilities are almost four times the expenditures of their counterparts without disabilities, about $8,300 per year in 2003, compared with $2,100 per year on average (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2003). These expenditures are covered by a variety of sources: private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and a wide variety of other public health care programs. In 2002, federal expenditures for the health care of people with disabilities totaled an estimated $102 billion, mostly under the Medicare and Medicaid programs ($93 billion); states paid an additional $45 billion (Goodman and Stapleton, 2005). Despite a high level of public spending on medical care for working-age people with disabilities, the existing health care system is not adequately meeting the needs of this diverse population. Access to services is often determined by age, income, disability type, current work status and previous work experience, and many people face major gaps in needed services. The health care financing system is complicated by the fact that major financiers of health care for people with disabilities - primarily the states, the federal government, employers, and the individuals and their families - have, over the years, sought to reduce their own costs by shifting liabilities to each other. As the cost of health care has increased, so has the intensity of cost-shifting efforts. As a result, the financing of health care for people with disabilities, especially long-term care, and other forms of chronic care services, resembles "a multidimensional, temporally endless game of hot potato, in which beneficiaries and the services they need are regularly tossed from one set of hands to another - and often fall on the floor in the process" (Vladeck, 2001). Making matters worse is the fact that access to financing is linked to work status. The public/private health insurance system can make it difficult for people with disabilities to move into and out of the labor market because most private coverage is obtained through employers and most public coverage is linked to a determination of inability to work. Recent initiatives, most notably the Medicaid buy-in programs, authorized by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, have attempted to break the link between public health insurance eligibility and employment, but have had only moderate success and serve to further complicate the system (Goodman and Livermore, 2004). Much of the research on health care financing for people with disabilities has focused on the Medicaid and Medicare programs. The findings of this research often highlight the inadequacies of those programs in providing appropriate services to address the special needs of people with disabilities. A focus on these large programs, however, obscures the role of other public and private insurers, as well as the role of programs that provide many additional services to this population Ő all of which add complexity to the system. The purpose of this paper is to describe the financing system as a whole, including the large public programs, other public and private insurers, and the many other programs that provide additional services. The description of the system highlights structural problems that need to be addressed in order to substantially improve the delivery of health and related services to people with disabilities. In the next section, we describe each source of health care financing for working-age people with disabilities and highlight its implications for service delivery and quality of life. In the concluding section, we describe the key structural shortcomings of the current financing system, assess the extent to which current reform efforts are addressing these shortcomings, and discuss the implications for broader efforts to reform health care financing system.
Download or read book Opportunities for Improving Programs and Services for Children with Disabilities written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the general public in the United States assumes children to be generally healthy and thriving, a substantial and growing number of children have at least one chronic health condition. Many of these conditions are associated with disabilities and interfere regularly with children's usual activities, such as play or leisure activities, attending school, and engaging in family or community activities. In their most severe forms, such disorders are serious lifelong threats to children's social, emotional well-being and quality of life, and anticipated adult outcomes such as for employment or independent living. However, pinpointing the prevalence of disability among children in the U.S. is difficult, as conceptual frameworks and definitions of disability vary among federal programs that provide services to this population and national surveys, the two primary sources for prevalence data. Opportunities for Improving Programs and Services for Children with Disabilities provides a comprehensive analysis of health outcomes for school-aged children with disabilities. This report reviews and assesses programs, services, and supports available to these children and their families. It also describes overarching program, service, and treatment goals; examines outreach efforts and utilization rates; identifies what outcomes are measured and how they are reported; and describes what is known about the effectiveness of these programs and services.
Download or read book Health Care Financing Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the Department of Human Services Services for People with Developmental Disabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Assistance for Personal Care Services for Severely Physically Disabled Persons written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Children written by Institute of Medicine and National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-10-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population? America's Children explores the changing role of Medicaid under managed care; state-initiated and private sector children's insurance programs; specific effects of insurance status on the care children receive; and the impact of chronic medical conditions and special health care needs. It also examines the status of "safety net" health providers, including community health centers, children's hospitals, school-based health centers, and others and reviews the changing patterns of coverage and tax policy options to increase coverage of private-sector, employer-based health insurance. In response to growing public concerns about uninsured children, last year Congress voted to provide $24 billion over five years for new state insurance initiatives. This volume will serve as a primer for concerned federal policymakers and regulators, state agency officials, health plan decisionmakers, health care providers, children's health advocates, and researchers.
Download or read book Supporting Family Care of Persons who are Developmentally Disabled written by Illinois. Governor's Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Low income Children with Disabilities written by Marsha Regenstein and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study on the financing of assistive technology devices and services for individuals with disabilities written by National Council on Disability (U.S.). and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicaid Financing of Services for Developmentally Disabled Persons written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long term care financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief is part of a series about financing health and social long-term care: lessons for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Countries take a universal or selective approach, or some mix of the two, in identifying the population that will be covered under LTC programmes. Decisions are based on the economic and social contexts, and LTC is designed with consideration of the existing infrastructure for delivering health and social care. Universal approaches are grounded in the principle of ensuring equal access to health and social care. Selective approaches focus on those in greatest need, primarily those who are low-income. While selective approaches are perceived to cost less, the total costs may be offset by the high cost of implementing means-testing to identify beneficiaries. The selective approach may also result in high levels of unmet needs among people who do not meet the low-income thresholds. Mixed universal and selective approaches enable universal coverage for some services or populations and means-tested eligibility for others; thus, older people may face high payments for some needed services. Many LMICs have initiated mixed approaches to LTC, using public and private resources while building the policies, systems and infrastructure for universal coverage of LTC.
