Covering catastrophic expenses under Medicare.

Paying Physicians for Their Practice Expenses under the Medicare Fee Schedule: Incentive and Equity Considerations

Florida's model of nursing home Medicaid reimbursement for disaster-related expenses.

PURPOSE This study describes Florida's model of Medicaid nursing home (NH) reimbursement to compensate NHs for disaster-related expenses incurred as a result of 8 hurricanes within a 2-year period. This Florida model can serve as a demonstration for a national model for disaster-related reimbursement. DESIGN AND METHODS Florida reimburses NHs for approved disaster-related costs through hurric...

Medicare from A to D: what every nephrologist needs to know.

I n 1972, the Congress of the United States put insurance coverage for ESRD under Medicare. Thus, most patients who required dialysis and transplantation in the United States were covered by this program, enabling widespread application of these treatments for kidney failure. The system of coverage is complex, and often patients and their physicians are confused about the regulations and intric...

بیمه سلامت، مخارج دارویی و تاثیر آن بر هزینه‌های فاجعه‌بار سلامت

Introduction: Catastrophic health expenditures is an index to evaluate the equity of health financing in different countries. This study investigates the catastrophic health expenditures and it’s determinants among the household residents of Zabol. Methods: This study was conducted in 2013-2014, using World Health Organization catastrophic health expenditure questionnaire. Cluster samp...

Innovative social protection mechanism for alleviating catastrophic expenses on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Chhattisgarh, India.

BACKGROUND Patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) incur huge expenditures for diagnosis and treatment; these costs can be reduced through a well-designed and implemented social health insurance mechanism. The State of Chhattisgarh in India successfully established a partnership between the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) and the Health Insurance Programme, to form...