When hiring a W-2 employee, as their employer, you must withhold income taxes, withhold and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, and pay unemployment taxes on their wages. On the other hand, you can hire 1099 independent contractors, in which you are not responsible for withholding and pa...
The US Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Program was established in 1972. The number of patients in the program increased from 5,000 in the first year to more than 500,000 in recent years. Only recently have efforts for risk factor identification, early diagnosis, and prevention of ...
For this study, only the NIS is required to calibrate post-stratification weights. The observed proportions from GWTG-Stroke are Bayesian prior information within the model and are non-representative of the target population. The Bayesian model estimates post-stratification weights when integrating prior...
As a result, Medicare and other major health care plans offer this education to people with diabetes. Yet, the NNDS results for 2011 show that only about half (49%) of people with diabetes reported attending diabetes self-management education classes or receiving counseling. The NDEP developed ...
“coast” into it may allow you to work less or take a job that pays less.At first glance, it doesn't make sense because if you were perfectly happy living on only part of your income so you could save most of it last month, and you'll eventually have enough to provide for that ...
Medicare Advantage plans have a financial incentive to increase medication adherence among members because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now awards substantive bonus payments to such plans, based in part on population adherence to chronic medications. We sought to build an ...