Changes in Home Health Care Service

A RESULT OF THE PASSAGE OF THE BALANCED BUDGET ACT OF 1997:

The proposed policy analysis will examine the issue of policy changes that have been made by the health care industry in relation to accommodating the consequences, implications, and stipulations mandated by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. This issue of home health care policy changes is being currently characterized and defined by a variety of sources.

These sources include: (1) The actual stipulations, mandates, consequences, and implications associated with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 itself; (2) Diverse politicians of all political parties who, in many of their discourses on the Balanced Budget Act as it relates to Medicare and its implications of home health care, are also motivated by a political agenda (Rodat & Zadoorian, 1996); (3) Home Health Care administrators whose basic goal is to provide quality service in a manner that is efficient, effective, and cost effective; (4) Geriatric health care providers such as physicians or nurses whose practice includes mostly older and aged patients; (5) Insurance companies whose primary goal is to provide coverage for areas not covered by medicare and to do so in a manner that ensures profit (MAGA, Limited, 1998); and (5) Senior citizens groups whose basic objective is to make sure that older people are provided with all the services they need and not left out o

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garding policy changes and their effects on service delivery. The conducted interviews will be semi-structured in nature which is to say that while some questions will be in the open format allowing any responses, overall the structure of questions will be essentially the same. The semi-structured interview technique is selected because it is somewhat less vulnerable to certain disadvantages associated with interview methods. It is expected that the conducted interviews will be short, no more than perhaps 30 minutes with each interviewee. The hope is that at least 12 administrators and at least 12 nurses can be interviewed since in order to conduct any statistical analyses of these perceptual data, statistical restrictions require that there be at least 12 subjects in each group (Linton & Gallo, 1975). Data Analysis Methods Organizational Methods. The presented analysis will be discussed collected data using the following organizational catories: (1) The kinds of policy changes that have been made by home health care agencies in response to the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 as discussed in the general literature; (2) The kinds of policy changes that have been made by home health care agencies in response to the Balanced Budge
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Approximate Word count = 2446
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page)

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