Health Educator Perspectives on Seeking Medicaid Reimbursement in Indiana

Hospital Response to Changes in Medicaid Reimbursement

Changes to reimbursement levels and reimbursement methodology have become increasingly common as public health insurance programs seek to slow the rate of cost growth. Despite the fact that Medicaid is a major public health insurance program, little is known about how hospitals respond to price cuts by Medicaid. On the other hand, existing research on hospital response to a commonly used paymen...

Perspectives on the Medicaid program

Medicaid disease management: seeking to reduce spending by promoting health.

Over the past two years, states across the country have been struggling to cope with rising Medicaid expenditures and, in some cases, significant budget shortfalls. They have sought to cut Medicaid spending by limiting benefits, increasing costsharing, and slowing provider payment increases. A number of states have also tightened Medicaid eligibility standards or have delayed planned eligibilit...

Assessment of public health educator practice: health educator responsibilities.

This study presents a method for better understanding how practicing health educators in local health departments spend their time. The purpose of this study was to document the daily practice of health educators in the 10 areas of responsibility as defined by a competency-based framework for graduate-level health educators. The results of the current study present the average percentage of tim...

Trends in Medicaid Nursing Home Reimbursement: 1978-89

Medicaid nursing home reimbursement is of concern because of implications for nursing home expenditures. This article presents data on State Medicaid nursing home reimbursement methods, ratesetting methods, and average per diem rates, refining earlier data and updating through 1989. A trend in the early 1980s toward adopting prospective systems played out by the end of the decade. There were tr...