University of Utah Health Plans is proud to be the new Medicaid behavioral health administrator for Summit County, beginning September 1, 2019. This is the first time one of the established Utah Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) providing medical care to a county’s residents has been...
Many larger traditional home health agencies are integrating non-medical services into their care delivery. This means Medicare and Medicaid are not paying the bill for this portion of a home health agency's business. Also many large integrated facilities providers (combined nursing homes, assisted l...
Reports that not-for-profit healthcare provider Intermountain Health Care of Salt Lake City, Utah, is planning to close its Medicaid health maintenance organization by the end of 2002. Views on the decision of the healthcare provider; Reasons for quitting the Medicaid risk business; Amount of ...
MEDICAID A federal/state public assistance program created in 1965 and administered by the states for people whose income and resources are insufficient to pay for health care. MEDICAL PAYMENTS INSURANCE A coverage in which the insurer agrees to reimburse the insured and others up to a certain lim...
Cardiovascular-related admission data was obtained from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Patients age 65 and older were selected for inclusion in the study. We identified primary diagnoses of any cardiac condition from 1999–2009 and the most common cardiac hospitalizations in our da...