Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high) and too few (many) patients are t...

background: occupational exposure to percutaneous injuries is a substantial source of infections with blood-borne pathogens among health-care workers. few studies evaluated injection safety practices in saudi arabia. objective: to examine the structure and process of injection safety at primary health care level in jazan health district, to evaluate knowledge, attitudes, and practices of primar...

this paper critically reviews studies that have interpretively invoked communication accommodation theory (cat) for the study of patient-provider interaction. cat’s sociolinguistic strategies—approximation, interpretability, interpersonal control, discourse management, and emotional expression—are succinctly introduced and their use in studies of patient-provider interaction discussed. the majo...

This policy statement reviews the impressive progress of the State Children's Health Insurance Program since its enactment in 1997 and identifies outstanding challenges and state and federal policy recommendations. The American Academy of Pediatrics urges Congress to reauthorize SCHIP to strengthen its historic gains. The following set of recommended strategies for reauthorization pertain to fu...

Comparative effectiveness research has been promoted as a way to control health care costs, but there has been less discussion of the mechanisms through which new evidence actually will influence physician practice, patient preference, and manufacturer investment. Public and private insurers use conditional coverage, consumer cost sharing, provider contracting, and drug payment policies to mana...

With the innovation and integration of Internet financial industry, third-party payment market has developed greatly great potential. This paper discusses duopoly game between service providers banks, which are main participants in mobile market. By constructing Nash model, conditions equilibrium point, stability bifurcation analyzed. The effects adjusting parameters cooperation coefficient on ...

This study compared the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) benefit provided by TRICARE as an early intervention for autism spectrum disorder with similar benefits in Medicaid and commercial health insurance plans. The sponsor, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, was particularly interested in how a proposed TRICARE reimbursement rate decrease from $125 per hou...

Implementing a per-episode prospective payment system (PPS) for home health services is one option for Medicare policy makers facing rapid increases in service use and expenditures. Analysis of data on recent episodes of Medicare home health care identified systematic differences in service patterns across provider types; these indicate potential differences in the capacity of agencies of diffe...

it has been tried to compare the “price payment method” in iranian law with “principles of international commercial contracts” and “convention on contracts for international sale of goods vienna, 1980” in this study. different law regulations in various countries should be unified in order to extend rapid and insured trusted law relations among the nations and people all over the world because ...