Health services financing.

Health Services Financing

• To study the role of health care financing and its impact on the delivery of health care. • To understand the basic concept of insurance and how insurance terminology, such as premiums, covered services, and cost sharing apply to health insurance. • To differentiate between the concepts of group insurance, selfinsurance, individual health insurance, and managed care. • To examine the distinct...

Health Services and Financing of Treatment

Financing, payment, and organization and management of alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment services are closely intertwined and together determine whether people have access to treatment, how the treatment system is designed, and the quality and cost of treatment services. Since the 1960s, changes in these arrangements have driven changes in the delivery of AOD treatment, and recent developm...

Financing policy for mental health services.

OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Health Care Financing

This notice describes the criteria and standards to be used for evaluating the performance of fiscal intermediaries and carriers in the administration of the Medicare program beginning January 1, 2000. The results of these evaluations are considered whenever HCFA enters into, renews, or terminates an intermediary agreement or carrier contract or takes other contract actions (for example, assign...

Financing global mental health services and the role of WHO.

A concrete indicator of a government's commitment to mental health services is the amount of financial resources it allocates. To encourage the government to increase mental health funding, it would require additional research and dissemination findings on the economic consequences of mental health disorders, cost-effectiveness benefits of alternatives treatment, and alternative methods of fina...