Challenges with the Medicare Obesity Benefit: Practical Concerns & Proposed Solutions

Solutions for Medicare Advantage Transplant Challenges

Cooperative Benefit and Cost Games under Fairness Concerns

Solution concepts in cooperative games are based on either cost games or benefit games. Although cost games and benefit games are strategically equivalent, that is not the case in general for solution concepts. Motivated by this important observation, a new property called invariance property with respect to benefit/cost allocation is introduced in this paper. Since such a property can be regar...

Clinical Research Environment in India: Challenges and Proposed Solutions.

India has compelling need and keen aspirations for indigenous clinical research. Notwithstanding this need and previously reported growth the expected expansion of Indian clinical research has not materialized. We reviewed the scientific literature, lay press reports, and ClinicalTrials.gov data for information and commentary on projections, progress, and impediments associated with clinical tr...

Medicare challenges and solutions--reimbursement issues in treating the patient with colorectal cancer.

BACKGROUND Medicare covers costs far more than 50% of all cancer patients, and most private payers follow Medicare's lead on coverage and benefits for cancer care. Medicare and private payers are legally required by federal statute to cover anticancer chemotherapeutic products based on U.S. Food and drug administration-approved labeling and indicate how off-label uses are covered. OBJECTIVE T...

The Problem of Claustrophobia with Proposed Solutions

Claustrophobia is huge problem which affects a lot of people in their everyday life, not to mention the financial and scientific difficulties with prematurely terminated MRIsessions, due to claustrophobia. In this essay there will be a further introduction of phobias in general and also a deeper presentation of claustrophobia in order to reach a better understanding of the nature of this disord...