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Medicare Matters : What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care
Christine K. Cassel
Hardcover - $43.95
"I read Christine Cassel's new book and loved it. "Medicare Matters is now the definitive book on Medicare. It explains, critiques, praises and expounds on Medicare with breadth, clarity, insight and an occasional flash of dry humor. It will be the b ...
Medicare Matters : What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care
Christine K. Cassel
Paperback - $26.95
"One of the great leaders of our time in American medicine tackles one of the great health-care issues of our generation: the design, fate, and principles of Medicare as a system. Care for our aging population and coverage through Medicare provide ke ...
Medicare for the Clueless : The Complete Guide to This Federal Program
Joan Harkins Conklin
Paperback - $19.95
This comprehensive Medicare manual will bridge the gap between confusing Medicare rules and the real world. For the 39 million people already on Medicare, it contains an overview of what Medicare covers, and what it does not (a relatively short list) ...
Testing CAHPS Health Plan Performance Reports in the Florida Medicaid Program
Donna O. Farley
Paperback - $29.95
The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), initiated the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPSr) project in 1995 to develop and test methods to provide consumers with comparat ...
Prescription for Profit : How Doctors Defraud Medicaid
Paul Jesilow
Hardcover - $102.95
'Prescription for Profit' reveals a pattern of Medicaid fraud that may well be perpetuated by the system itself.
Disentitlement? : The Threats Facing Our Public Health Care Programs and a Right-Based Response
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Hardcover - $92.95
No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens. This book begins by exploring the deficiencies in private health insurance that account for this. It then recounts the history and examines the legal ch ...
Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care :
Rick Mayes
Hardcover - $93.95
This is the definitive work on Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS), which had its origins in the 1972 Social Security Amendments, was first applied to hospitals in 1983, and came to fruition with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Here, Rick Ma ...
Welfare Medicine in America (Ppr)
Robert Bocking Stevens
Paperback - $62.95
The present study was undertaken for three reasons: Medicaid is a vital program -- in the early 1970s it provided care for over one tenth of the American population. It is a huge program -- in the same period it consumed over nine billion dollars of ...