Download or read book Medicare Home Health Agencies written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Home Health Agencies: Weaknesses in Federal and State Oversight Mask Potential Quality Issues
Download or read book Medicare Home Health Agencies written by Walter Ochinko and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home health agencies (HHA) play an important role in the U.S. health care system -- allowing individuals who are unable to leave home without great difficulty to receive certain medical or therapeutic care in their own homes. In 2000, Medicare covered home health services for 2.5 million people at a cost of $8.7 bill. This report assesses quality-related aspects of HHAs. Covers these questions: (1) what is known about the quality of care provided by HHAs, (2) is the current survey process adequate to identify quality-of-care problems at both parent & branch offices, (3) are state investigations of complaints made against HHAs effective in protecting patients, & (4) is Fed. oversight of state survey activities & enforcement efforts adequate? Tables.
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Download or read book Medicare Home Health Agencies Weaknesses in Federal and State Oversight Mask Potential Quality Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home health agencies (RHA) play an important role in the U.S. health care system-allowing individuals who are unable to leave home without great difficulty to receive certain medical or therapeutic care in their own homes. In 2000, Medicare, the federal health care program for elderly and disabled Amen cans, covered home health services for 2.5 million beneficiaries at a cost of $8.7 billion. The approximately 6,900 HHAs that serve Medicare beneficiaries must meet federal requirements, known as conditions of participation (COP), intended to ensure that, among other things, HHAs have the appropriate staff, are following the plan of care specified by a physician, maintain medical records to document the care provided, and periodically reassess each patient's condition. To verify compliance with these and other requirements, the federal government contracts with states to periodically conduct an inspection, known as a standard survey, at each RHA. The survey includes a review of a sample of medical records and interviews with patients in their homes. If an RHA fails to meet a Medicare COP-a serious deficiency that adversely affects (harms) or has the potential to adversely affect (potential to harm) patients-it can be terminated from the program. Oversight of HHAs has become even more important since the implementation of a new prospective payment system in October 2000 that encourages HHAs to provide care more efficiently but also provides an incentive to reduce services in order to increase net revenues.
Download or read book Medicare Home Health Agencies written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long Term Care written by Kathryn G. Allen and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home & community-based settings have become a growing part of states' Medicaid long-term care programs, serving as an alternative to care in institutional settings, such as nursing homes. To cover such services, however, states often obtain waivers from certain federal statutory requirements. This report reviews: (1) trends in states' use of Medicaid home & community-based service (HCBS) waivers, particularly for the elderly; (2) state quality assurance approaches, including available data on the quality of care provided to elderly individuals through waivers; & (3) the adequacy of federal oversight of state waivers. Charts & tables.
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Download or read book Medicare and Medicaid Participating Facilities written by John E. Dicken and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans receive care from tens of thousands of health care facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid. To ensure the quality of care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts with states to conduct periodic surveys and complaint investigations. The auditor evaluated survey funding, state workloads, and fed. oversight of states' use of funds since FY 2000 to determine if fed. funding had kept pace with the changing workload. He analyzed: (1) fed. funding trends from FY 2000 through 2007 and CMS's methodology for determining states' allocations and spending; (2) CMS data on the number of participating facilities and completed state surveys; and (3) CMS oversight of state spending. Includes recommendations. Illus.
Download or read book Medicare CMS needs additional authority to adequately oversee patient safety in hospitals report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Congressional Serial Set Serial No 14874 Senate Reports Nos 260 265 written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 1764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developments in Aging written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book In the Hands of Strangers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jonas and Kovner s Health Care Delivery in the United States written by Anthony R. Kovner, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-06-22 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is health care understood and assessed in America? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the population, the cost of care, and access to care? This eighth edition discusses these and other core issues in the field.
Download or read book Theories on Law and Ageing written by Israel Doron and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about trying to answer questions. These questions were well introduced by Prof. Margaret Hall in the opening of her chapter in this book: “The fundamental idea of ‘law and aging’ as a discrete category of legal principle and theory is controversial: how and why are ‘older adults’ or ‘seniors’ or ‘elders’ (the very terminology is controversial and fraught with difficulties) a discrete and distinct group for whom ‘special’ legal thought and treatment is justified? For some, a category of law and aging is inherently paternalistic, suggesting that older persons are, like children, especially in need of the protection of the law. In this sense, the argument continues, the category itself internalizes ageist presumptions about older adults and is therefore inherently flawed and even harmful. If certain older adults are, because of physical or mental infirmities, genuinely in need of an enhanced level of legal protection, this entitlement should be conceptualized in terms of their disability; older adults are not a distinct group but an arbitrarily delineated demographic category which contains within it any number of groups that are legitimately distinct for the purposes of legal theory (the di- bled; women; persons of colour; Aboriginal persons; rich and poor; etc.) Indeed, the arti- cial category of “older adults” may be seen as obfuscating, submerging these more meaningful distinctions.
Download or read book Nursing home quality prevalence of serious problems while declining reinforces importance of enhanced oversight report to congressional requesters written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
