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Managed Care Organizations Managed Care Plans
1,405 words... s insured through her employer which administered United Healthcare as the utilization reviewing agency. Mrs. Corcoran was deemed to have a high-risk pregnancy because of her history with pregnancy-related problems. Taking this into careful consideration, her doctors recommended hospitalization so that the fetus could be monitored as the due date approached, and another obstetrician (who was used for a second opinion) concurred (Pollack). Despite her doctors request, United Healthcare insist...
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Managed Care In The Psychiatric Setting
1,646 wordsManaged Care in the Psychiatric Setting The healthcare has been of the greatest interest to governments around the world throughout the human history. The age dynamics, death expectations, and fertility rates are the facts that matter when the government ponders some social program. I should note here that if the US government managed to provide the health care to every US citizen, it would probably be re-elected billion times, because health issues, government support and aid can be used as a c...
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History Of Managed Care
653 wordsHistory of Managed Care Managed care organizations have been existing since the 1920 s. Important growth and national attention came during the mid 1970 s when Congress approved the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Act. This section of legislation made low cost loans accessible to organizations willing to create HMOs. The law also made available that an HMO could require an employer to offer its plan as an alternative to its traditional indemnity health insurance. It was through this time t...
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Health Care System York Times
1,862 wordsThe Clinton Health Plan The health care situation in the United States is in dire need of a change. The United States spends more money on health care per individual than any other nation in the world (14 %of its GNP in 1991), and that amount is quickly rising. Virtually everyone, from doctors to politicians, recognize the unwieldy situation of health care in America, and realize that something must be done. In order to attempt to correct the failures of the current health care situation, one mu...
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Vice President Gore Billion Dollars A Year
1,398 wordsThe U. S. government have denied that Medicare has been going bankrupt. Although the government may say that Medicare has plenty of money it is untrue because it is a fact that Medicare will go bankrupt by the year 2001 as stated by preliminary sources. Medicare is one of the main sources of funding for those people that have no money or very small amount of money. The community service that was done for this research paper is hospital volunteering at John Muir Medical Center. The community serv...
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Tragic Irony Rely Solely
777 wordsThe purpose of this paper is to analyze social security so as to show the reader what makes it beneficial to us today... Throughout my life the words social and security have meant little more to me than the representation of a small blue card in my wallet, a consistent and increasingly significant deduction of funds from my weekly pay-check, and a vague academically-instilled recollection of the potential for long-term future benefit. In fact, it was not until I researched pertinent material fo...
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Managed Care Plans Fee For Service
1,410 wordsMany employees must designate a health plan through their employer. These days, as HMOs (health maintenance organizations) and managed care plans continue to proliferate, that means a choice between bad and worse. As employees line up in the lunch-room for a process called open enrollment, they may be surprised to learn that managed care rates have gone up? again. The mirage that managed care is cheaper care is finally fading. And, for the first time in years, employees may also have the promise...
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