Quality care for Jonathan and his family Jonathan is 25 and has a variety of complex care needs including quadriplegic cerebral palsy, scoliosis and epilepsy. To enable him to breathe, Jonathan has a tracheostomy and is provided with overnight oxygen. He is also PEG fed with a ... ...
It was also extremely limited in scope as it aimed government support only at the “hopelessly unproductive,” such as the severely mentally ill or quadriplegic. This mealy progenitor of Medicaid did fail, as the majority of states were indeed ineffective at obtaining matching funds, with the ...
Interview.Interview and observe the child and the family to determine the child’s needs, the level of development, and the stage of family acceptance and to set realistic long-range goals. History.Patient history andmaternal historyoften reveal the possible cause of cerebral palsy. Neurologic exam...
So, we have a sys-tem that is ripe for fraud, especially when the right hand is up to no good.One of the frauds that is encouraged by our current system is the practice of double billing—that is, submitting duplicate (or multiple) invoices to a patient or to an insurer for the ...
Today’s first surgical patient doesn’t have a first name. At least, as far as his medical records at Mbarara are concerned, his first name is C. C is a sixty-five year-old man who is, for all intents and purposes, a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic. Degenerative changes in his cervica...