Programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, along with the tax code’s healthcare exclusion, have created a system where consumers directly pay for only about 10 percent of the care they receive. We think it’s normal and appropriate for either the government or an insurance company to foot the...
Jones Day successfully defended a mid-level home health agency manager at a Florida home health agency against the threat of exclusion proceedings by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), which alleged that she had participated in the payment of ...
Finally, the patient financial protections established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—such as annual limits on patient out-of-pocket spending and prohibitions on annual and lifetime insurer spending maximums—apply to nearly all private health insurance plans but only for care ...
This resulted in insufficient protection of children’s health from ortho-phthalates exposures. FDA has yet to reevaluate the safety of the ortho-phthalates CPSC acted on [52]. The agency has continued to allow six of the CPSC banned substances (out of a total of 28 ortho-phthalates approved...
Some third parties are outside of the European Economic Area, with varying standards of data protection. See our privacy policy for more information on the use of your personal data. Manage preferences for further information and to change your choices. Accept all cookies ...
Some third parties are outside of the European Economic Area, with varying standards of data protection. See our privacy policy for more information on the use of your personal data. Manage preferences for further information and to change your choices. Accept all cookies ...
(CHNAs). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) made CHNAs a requirement for tax-exempt hospitals. Part of the requirement includes participation from community members in the CHNA process. However, the wording of the requirement is vague on the definition for community ...
Table 1. Covariates included in the two-part mixed-effects models according to the level of analysis. VariablesTypeDescription Level 1 covariates: Characteristics of the care-seeking events Cause of health-seeking Categorical Health condition for which care has been sought Sequence of health visits Ca...
We conducted a case study in China to explore this dynamic, focusing on two interventions initially supported by two DAH projects (Table1). Neither of the two interventions had been part of national policies before the implementation of these selected projects. One is medical financial assistance ...
(Etemadi et al.,2022). The protection and promotion of autonomy is not just an extra benefit or an after-the-fact consideration but rather the main goal when designing HRS-based systems to support AA. Therefore, we deem the time is mature to start thinking about next-gen autonomy-en...