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 Persons with Disabilities written by Steven B. Clauser and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This volume offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem, including the regulation of private long-term care insurance, catastrophic out-of-pocket costs, and the use of long-term care and acute care services by the chronically disabled elderly. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Lisa Alecxih, David Kennell, and John Corea, Lewin-VHI; Brian Burwell and William Crown, SysteMetrics; Terry Coughlin, Korbin Liu, and Sharon Long, Urban Institute; Judith Kasper, Johns Hopkins University; Kenneth Manton and P.J. Eric Stallard, Duke University; Jennifer Schore, Mathematica Policy Research; Catherine Sullivan, Brookings; and Bruce Vladeck, Health Care Financing Administration. Dialogues on Public Policy

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 Serious and Unstable Condition written by Henry Aaron and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic care for acute illnesses, few are insured against the costs of long-term care, and many frequently used medical procedures have never been fully evaluated. The goals of controlling spiraling health care costs and extending insurance coverage or even maintaining current insurance coverage seem to be in conflict. But progress can be made on both goals if they are tacked together. Henry Aaron evaluates these critical issues and explores how adequate care can be provided without fueling inflation. Because the current arrangements for financing America's health care cannot endure, Aaron contends that a major national debate on the restructuring of the U.S. system of financing health care is inescapable, and major legislation is likely. Serious and Unstable Condition offers a guide that is crucial to understanding the reform debate. It explains the important economic issues of health care as a background for evaluating both the current system and proposals for change. Aaron compares the U.S. system of health care financing with certain foreign systems and reviews major options for reform. He cautions that unless the health insurance system is radically changed, the number of uninsured will continue to increase and costs will continue to escalate. He then offers his own comprehensive plan to address these problems.

Download or read book The Future of Disability in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of disability in America will depend on how well the U.S. prepares for and manages the demographic, fiscal, and technological developments that will unfold during the next two to three decades. Building upon two prior studies from the Institute of Medicine (the 1991 Institute of Medicine's report Disability in America and the 1997 report Enabling America), The Future of Disability in America examines both progress and concerns about continuing barriers that limit the independence, productivity, and participation in community life of people with disabilities. This book offers a comprehensive look at a wide range of issues, including the prevalence of disability across the lifespan; disability trends the role of assistive technology; barriers posed by health care and other facilities with inaccessible buildings, equipment, and information formats; the needs of young people moving from pediatric to adult health care and of adults experiencing premature aging and secondary health problems; selected issues in health care financing (e.g., risk adjusting payments to health plans, coverage of assistive technology); and the organizing and financing of disability-related research. The Future of Disability in America is an assessment of both principles and scientific evidence for disability policies and services. This book's recommendations propose steps to eliminate barriers and strengthen the evidence base for future public and private actions to reduce the impact of disability on individuals, families, and society.

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 Health Care Financing Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financing Long Term Services and Supports for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults written by Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults is the summary of a workshop convened in June 2013 by the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council to examine the financing of long-term services and supports for working-age individuals with disabilities and among individuals who are developing disabilities as they age. The workshop covered both older adults who acquire disabilities and younger adults with disabilities who may acquire additional impairments as they age, the target population of the Forum's work. The challenges associated with financing long-term services and supports for people with disabilities impacts all age groups. While there are important differences between the characteristics of programs developed for different age groups, and specific populations may have different needs, this workshop addressed the financing sources for long-term services and supports in general, noting specific differences as appropriate. The financing of long-term services and supports has become a major issue in the United States. These are the services and supports that individuals with disabilities, chronic conditions, and functional impairments need in order to live independently, such as assistance with eating, bathing, and dressing. Long-term services and supports do not include the medical or nursing services required to manage health conditions that may be responsible for a disabling condition. At least 11 million adults ages 18 and over receive long-term services and supports. Only a little more than half of them - 57 percent - are ages 65 or older. One study found that about 6 percent of people turning 65 in 2005 could expect to have expenses of more than $100,000 for long-term services and supports. Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults discusses the scope and trends of current sources of financing for long-term services and supports for working-age individuals with disabilities and older adults aging into disability, including income supports and personal savings. This report considers the role of families, business, and government in financing long-term services and supports and discusses implications of and opportunities for current and innovative approaches.

Download or read book Disability written by Virginia P. Reno and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and National Academy for Social Insurance publication This book presents a cross-cutting assessment of disability income policy in public and private programs in the United States and in European countries. It evaluates whether there is a crisis in disability benefit policy, drawing on an in-depth review of Social Security disability programs by a panel of national experts. In addition to highlighting the panel's findings and recommendations for reform, the authors debate issues in financing and delivering quality health care through Medicare and Medicaid for working-age persons with disabilities, and they examine new developments in how Workers' Compensation organizes and finances cash benefits and health care for workers injured on the job. These developments in benefits and health policy for disabled workers are examined in light of budget constraints and challenges posed by today's rapidly changing labor market. The book concludes with a provocative discussion of "where are the jobs?"--an assessment of growing wage inequality between less skilled and highly skilled workers and the implication of labor market trends for goals of promoting employment among persons with chronic health conditions or disabilities. The contributors include Monroe Berkowitz, Rutgers University; Richard V. Burkhauser, Syracuse University; John Burton, Rutgers University; Philip de Jong, Institute for Law and Public Policy, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Alan Krueger, Princeton University; Katherine Newman, Harvard University; Van Ooms, Committee on Economic Development; Dallas Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research Institute; Leslie Scallet, Mental Health Policy Resource Center; and the Honorable Bruce C. Vladek, Health Care Financing Administration.

Download or read book Active Projects Report written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medicare Use of Home Health Services written by United States. Health Care Financing Administration. Office of Research, Demonstrations, and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Care Financing Program Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Insurance is a Family Matter written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third of a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United Sates and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance. The book demonstrates that having one or more uninsured members in a family can have adverse consequences for everyone in the household and that the financial, physical, and emotional well-being of all members of a family may be adversely affected if any family member lacks coverage. It concludes with the finding that uninsured children have worse access to and use fewer health care services than children with insurance, including important preventive services that can have beneficial long-term effects.

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 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 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Surgeon General s Call to Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities written by United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: