نتایج جستجو برای: insurance organizations
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Objectives: The present study aimed to provide an estimation of the current financial burden of renal transplantation therapy for insurance organisations.Methods: An Excel-based model was developed to determine the treatment costs of current clinical practice in renal transplantation therapy (RTT). Inputs were derived from Ministry of Health and insurance organizations` database, hospital and p...
More than seven of 10 adults believe the U.S. health system needs fundamental change or complete rebuilding. Most adults surveyed reported difficulties accessing care, poor care coordination, and struggles with the costs and administrative hassles of health insurance. In addition, the survey finds substantial evidence of inefficient and wasteful delivery of health services. When looking toward ...
Medical expenses are an increasingly important contributor to household financial risk. We examine the effect of medical expenditure risk on the willingness of Medicare beneficiaries to hold risky assets. Using a discrete factor maximum likelihood method to address the endogeneity of insurance choices, we find that having a moderately protective Medigap or employer supplemental policy increases...
Existing scales to measure trust in physicians have differing content and limited testing. To improve on these measures, a detailed conceptual model was constructed and a large item pool (n = 78) was generated following a detailed conceptual model and expert review. After pilot testing, the best-performing items were validated with a random national sample (n = 959) and a regional sample of HMO...
As the Medicare Program evolves, adding new insurance options like regional preferred provider organizations (PPOs) and prescription drug benefits, beneficiaries have an even greater need to understand the program. However, past research suggests that many beneficiaries have limited understanding of Medicare and related health insurance options. While improvements in beneficiary understanding o...
Hospitals have been merging with and acquiring nearby facilities, creating local and regional chains that potentially wield greater bargaining leverage than do stand-alone facilities.1 Concerns over the potential impact of health reform on hospital consolidation and pricing have been raised recently in Massachusetts and California, where hospital mergers and large hospital systems have been ass...
BACKGROUND The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act, introduced as part of the Affordable Care Act, directed the FDA to create an approval pathway for biologic products shown to be biosimilar or interchangeable with an FDA-approved innovator drug. These biosimilars will not be chemically identical to the reference agent. Investigational studies conducted with biosimilar agents will li...
In this paper, we define a new problem related to social media, namely, the data-driven engineering of social dynamics. More precisely, given a set of observations from the past, we aim at finding the best short-term intervention that can lead to predefined long-term outcomes. Toward this end, we propose a general formulation that covers two useful engineering tasks as special cases, namely, pa...
The Health Care Financing Administration is sponsoring the Medicare Physician Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) Demonstration to assess the feasibility and desirability of including a PPO option under Medicare. Two sites are currently operational. At one site, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona is offering a PPO linked with a medigap insurance plan. This "medigap PPO" and its initial exp...
BACKGROUND When a patient in a provider network seeks services outside of their community, the community experiences a leakage. Leakage is undesirable as it typically leads to higher out-of-network cost for patient and increases barrier for care coordination, which is particularly problematic for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) as the in-network providers are financially responsible for qua...
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