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  Amendments to HMO Act
Foremost in this war were the 1988 amendments to the HMO Act, approved by Congress and signed into law on October 24, 1988. This ....
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AETNA HEALTHCARE INC
.... Humana, a major HMO, lost just such a case that side-stepped ERISA this year .... statement of Congressional intent in the ERISA clearly states that the Act does not ....
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In-Hospital Patient Care T
.... Organization Act of 1973, many employers are required to provide such benefits. This intermediary can be either a health maintenance organization (HMO), an ....
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HMO Mental Health Patients and Recidivism
.... and characteristics that predict recidivism, or relapse, among HMO mental health .... Assertive community treatment (ACT) and intensive case management (ICM) are ....
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In-Hospital Patient Care & Managed Care
.... Organization Act of 1973, many employers are required to provide such benefits. This intermediary can be either a health maintenance organization (HMO), an ....
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ECONOMICS OF THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY Introduct
.... to be related to cutbacks mandated by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 .... according to the author, is the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) which Phelps defines ....
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Health Care in Britain and US: A comparison
.... In 1990, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 introduced what .... done, Kaiser Permanente has been chosen as a typical HMO (Health Maintenance ....
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Medical Care Rationing
.... Additionally, the act of rationing has an ethical component; it is not just a .... essence of the concept is that the third-party payer (the HMO, Health Maintenance ....
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Letter to a Congressman
.... HMO patients are much more likely to get drive-through mastectomies than .... org/readroom/position/joint/jtcathet.htm Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of ....
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Senior Interest Groups
.... powerful interests that are affected by seniors legislation often act as a .... event was sponsored by America's Health Insurance Plans, an HMO association that ....
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Home Health Care
.... Act, and under Title III of the Older Americans Act, the proportion of .... The Group Health Cooperative, a major HMO (health maintenance organization) serving the ....
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Child Welfare Reform Legislation
.... Cross/Blue Shield plan for federal employees, largest commercial HMO in the .... day the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act was signed ....
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MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION This research paper s
.... of Title VII discrimination claims violate the Civil Rights Act of 1991, 42 .... arbitration program run by Kaiser Permanente, a leading private HMO, was 'oppressive ....
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Health Care in Canada and the US
.... Act, primarily because of its creation of accountability measures which included patient ability to hold HMOs liable and obtain monetary damages based on HMO ....
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Armstead, Rodney C
.... for Medicaid HMO quality-assurance (QA) programs, adapting employers' HMO performance reporting .... under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) of ....
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Malpractice & Liability
.... A major boost came with the passage of the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 .... provide their employees a "dual choice option" in which the HMO could be ....
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US Community Mental Health Systems
.... 3) the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986 .... mental health services are being provided by the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). ....
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Delivery of Dential Care
.... dental hygienists often find themselves performing expanded roles in HMO environments (Boyer .... 1) the willing ness of dental hygienists to act independently, and ....
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Transcultural Nurse Specialist The purpose of the review of liter
.... of managed care in the United States are The Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and the .... Western medicine, resulting in the need for the nurse to act as a ....
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Health Care System
.... Businessmen sought to market the HMO (Feinstein, 2003 .... and Kamoie (2003) reported on the role of the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) in ....
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Role of Nurse in Health Care
.... bureaucratic, change flowed from the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 .... The rationale behind this "politically popular" proposal for HMO reform is ....
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Study on Licensed & Unlicensed Dialysis Technicians
.... Section 1876 of the Social Security Act, which generally allows Medicare beneficiaries the option of enrolling in a licensed HMO, expressly prohibits this ....
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Physician Assisted Suicide as Manslaughter This question concerns ...
.... course. Suicide, however, is an affirmative act in itself. .... procedure. This surgery was authorized by the HMO to which the woman belonged. ....
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Nursing Systems, Hospitals & Policy The Unit
.... the most structured and controlled of these is the health maintenance organization (HMO). .... shortfalls forced Oregon to adopt its Oregon Basic Health Care Act. ....
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Asthma Patients
.... are more likely to employ NPs than those with no HMO contracts, according .... However, this may act to their detriment because, although they get reimbursed at the ....
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Managed Health Care Approaches Title: Issues and approaches in ...
.... companies, although the latter may nevertheless be called upon to act as consultants for .... making the managed care firm, in essence, a mental health HMO and thus ....
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Effects of Managed Care on Surgical Care
.... HMOs require the patient to use a doctor or hospital included in the HMO. .... The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 created the ability for either ....
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Several Business Essays
.... the same time, Bonzi Software paid $75,000 for violating provisions of the Act that govern .... It is not an HMO, but its physicians have come together from a wide ....
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Article on Medical Care Quality
.... The HMO physician, for example, will find his year-end income substantially affected by .... power of prescription, their ethical and legal mandate to act as their ....
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Medical and Legal Duties
.... information "to prevent a client from committing a criminal, illegal or fraudulent act." The lack of .... E. Larson, The Soul of an HMO, Time, January 22, 1996, 45. ....
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