Expanded universal carrier screening and its implementation within a publicly funded healthcare service

A Macroeconomic Analysis of Publicly Funded Healthcare

Cross-Border Healthcare Requests to Publicly Funded Healthcare Insurance: Empirical Analysis

Despite the legal authority to confirm, override or modify healthcare insurance decisions made by physicians and government officials, health tribunal decisions have not been empirically analyzed. Using a novel quantitative methodology, all 387 Health Services Appeal and Review Board written and publicly available electronic decisions released over a five-year time period were statistically ana...

Woolhandler and David U Himmelstein system Competition in a publicly funded healthcare

system Competition in a publicly funded healthcare service Email alerting box at the top left of the article Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article-sign up in the

Pilot implementation of allied health assistant roles within publicly funded health services in Queensland, Australia: results of a workplace audit

BACKGROUND Allied health assistants provide delegated support for physical therapists, occupational therapists and other allied health professionals. Unfortunately the role statements, scope of practice and career pathways of these assistant positions are often unclear. To inform the future development of the allied health assistant workforce, a state-wide pilot project was implemented and audi...

Publicly funded contraceptive care: a proven investment.

This year has been a difficult one for the nation's publicly funded family planning programs, which have faced unprecedented threats. Some of these threats appear driven primarily by policy makers struggling to close budget deficits, many of whom have set their sights on Medicaid. During FY 2011, 43 states attempted to reduce Medicaid costs through such steps as cutting provider reimbursement, ...