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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
What's Happening: December 23, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: December 23, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: December 9, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: December 9, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: November 25, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: November 25, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Retooling Tax Subsidies For Health Coverage: Old Ideas, New Politics, Karl Polzer
Retooling Tax Subsidies For Health Coverage: Old Ideas, New Politics, Karl Polzer
National Health Policy Forum
This paper describes the tax treatment of health coverage and health care spending and explores the potential impact of recent tax reform proposals. The paper summarizes the criticisms of the current system and analyzes various alternatives including capping the open-ended tax exclusion of health benefits provided by employers and unions, eliminating the exclusion, and establishing a tax credit.
What's Happening: November 11, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: November 11, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Physician Organizations Assuming Risk: Market And Policy Implications, Sandra Foote, Lisa Sprague
Physician Organizations Assuming Risk: Market And Policy Implications, Sandra Foote, Lisa Sprague
National Health Policy Forum
This issue brief looks at capitation contracting between physician groups and health plans and ways in which financial risk and functional responsibilities may be apportioned. It traces the evolution of capitation contracting in California and the legislative and regulatory issues that have arisen.
Site Visit To Southern California — Plans And Providers: Risk, Accountability, And Staying Power, Lisa Sprague
Site Visit To Southern California — Plans And Providers: Risk, Accountability, And Staying Power, Lisa Sprague
National Health Policy Forum
This site visit was the second of two focused on managed care operations and market dynamics in California, a state notable for high HMO market penetration and intense competition. In southern California, large physician groups and independent practice associations were highly visible and influential. They had assumed significant financial risk and care management responsibility for patients in HMO plans. The result was a distinctly different model of managed care than existed in other regions of the country. The visit included meetings with leaders from physician organizations and managed care organizations in San Diego and Orange counties, as well as an …
What's Happening: October 29, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: October 29, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Site Visit To Utah And Nevada — Essential Community Health Services On The Frontier, Karen Matherlee, Michael Anzick
Site Visit To Utah And Nevada — Essential Community Health Services On The Frontier, Karen Matherlee, Michael Anzick
National Health Policy Forum
From the opening dinner to the closing summary, this site visit explored the delivery and financing of essential community services for vulnerable populations in the frontier West. A sequel to the Forum's March 30-31, 1998, urban-centered site visit to Philadelphia, Providing Community-Based Primary Care: Nursing Centers, CHCs, and Other Initiatives, the visit spanned 493 miles. It included overview presentations, bus briefings, facility tours, telehealth demonstrations, panel discussions, and wrap-up reviews. Topics included the Utah health marketplace, the demands of emergency preparedness, the development of a patchwork of services along a continuum ranging from preventive care to tertiary referrals and follow-up, …
What's Happening: October 15, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: October 15, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
The State Children's Health Insurance Program: How Much Latitude Do The States Really Have?, Richard Hegner
The State Children's Health Insurance Program: How Much Latitude Do The States Really Have?, Richard Hegner
National Health Policy Forum
The State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — a major program to cover low-income, uninsured children — was passed as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Its passage was part of a trend of a shifting balance of power between the federal and state governments, particularly in the policy areas of health and social welfare. This issue brief explores the degree of freedom afforded the states by CHIP, the factors guiding state decision making and planning, and the factors influencing the states' various decisions about CHIP. It also discusses state options in four basic areas: participation or nonparticipation …
What's Happening: September 30, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: September 30, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Protecting The Confidentiality Of Health Information, Nora Super
Protecting The Confidentiality Of Health Information, Nora Super
National Health Policy Forum
This issue brief focuses on the legislation aimed at protecting the confidentiality of health information. It provides an overview of legislation being considered in 1998 and focuses on three key issues: controlling access to health information, conducting research, and preempting state laws.
What's Happening: September 17, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: September 17, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: September 3, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: September 3, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: August 25, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: August 25, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: August 6, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: August 6, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Communicating To Beneficiaries About Medicare+Choice: Opportunities And Pitfalls, Nora Super
Communicating To Beneficiaries About Medicare+Choice: Opportunities And Pitfalls, Nora Super
National Health Policy Forum
This issue brief explores the opportunities and potential pitfalls in communicating to beneficiaries about Medicare+Choice. This issue brief also looks at the difficulties inherent in communicating complex information to a diverse group of older individuals as well as at communications and programmatic challenges related to information overload, marketing concerns, lack of uniform standards, lack of infrastructure, and the vulnerability of various subpopulations.
What's Happening: July 23, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: July 23, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Medicare Coverage And Technology Diffusion: Past, Present, And Future, Robin J. Strongin
Medicare Coverage And Technology Diffusion: Past, Present, And Future, Robin J. Strongin
National Health Policy Forum
This issue brief provides an overview of the Medicare coverage process. Coverage involves deciding whether or not to pay for a particular service or product. This brief examines Medicare's coverage determination process, which includes technology assessment, payment determination, and the demand for evidence. Options for improving the coverage determination process are reviewed.
What's Happening: July 8, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: July 8, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: June 25, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: June 25, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Erisa Health Plan Denials: Exploring Models For External Review, Karl Polzer
Erisa Health Plan Denials: Exploring Models For External Review, Karl Polzer
National Health Policy Forum
This paper outlines the current process under the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act (ERISA) by which plan participants can appeal a claim denial as well as changes to the claims procedure requirements being considered by the Department of Labor. It describes state legislative activity in this area and summarizes research describing practices currently in place among managed health care organization. The paper also describes two existing models for external review of managed care plan decisions, one used by the Medicare program and another by the state of Florida.
What's Happening: June 11, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: June 11, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: May 28, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: May 28, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Site Visit To New Jersey — State And County Experiences With Welfare Reform And Access To Health Care, Michael Anzick, Richard Hegner
Site Visit To New Jersey — State And County Experiences With Welfare Reform And Access To Health Care, Michael Anzick, Richard Hegner
National Health Policy Forum
This site visit was the second in a series to examine what is occurring at the state and local level with respect to welfare reform, Medicaid, public health, and safety net and other supportive services. During this visit, policymaker discovered how state officials, directors, and front-line staff at urban and suburban county welfare offices are working with clients to move them off the welfare rolls into jobs and providing the support services necessary for job retention; heard from clients about how programmatic changes are affecting them and their families; learned how the role of safety net health care and temporary …
What's Happening: May 13, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: May 13, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: April 29, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: April 29, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
What's Happening: April 16, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening: April 16, 1998, Maine Medical Center
What's Happening
No abstract provided.
Dual Diagnoses: The Challenge Of Serving People With Concurrent Mental Illness And Substance Abuse Problems, Richard Hegner
Dual Diagnoses: The Challenge Of Serving People With Concurrent Mental Illness And Substance Abuse Problems, Richard Hegner
National Health Policy Forum
This paper describes the prevalence of comorbid mental disorders in the population and discusses what is known about causality and relapse. The relationship between dual diagnosis and homelessness and crime is also discussed. The paper also explores options for improving treatment among the dually diagnosed.