l The Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Trust Fund is financed on a year-by-year basis and is adequately financed. The Trustees urge the Congress to take additional actions designed to control SMI costs through specific program legislation and as a part of enacting comprehensive health care reform. The Boards of Trustees of the four trust funds issued a joint summary of their 1993 a...

This article, adapted from a summary of the 1983 Annual Reports of the Medicare Boards of Trustees, presents the present and projected future actuarial status of the Hospital Insurance (HI) and Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Trust Funds following the enactment of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 and the Social Security Amendments of 1983. Although the Trustees charact...

The present paper deals with the construction of health interfederal networks, composed by each federate organization that together will manage nationwide the Unified Health System in a shared and coordinated way. It also ranks the necessary conceptual elements to the network construction and adequate operation like local management boards, interfederal board of trustees and administrative orga...

OBJECTIVE To identify the prevalence, characteristics, and compensation of members of the boards of directors of healthcare industry companies who hold academic appointments as leaders, professors, or trustees. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING US healthcare companies publicly traded on the NASDAQ or New York Stock Exchange in 2013. PARTICIPANTS 3434 directors of pharmaceutical, biote...

Purpose This study investigates whether there are relationships between the characteristics of boards trustees universities in Arab region, higher education quality assurance and output scientific research. Design/methodology/approach The descriptive analytical approach was used this study. conducted on region that included classification British Institution for Region: QS Region University. Fi...

This study investigates the possible negative effects that boards of trustees (BoTs) private universities have on academic autonomy. Over time, Western developed a model with reasonable degree shared responsibility between BoTs and university community. Recently, Hungarian public are transitioning to been learning how better share their universities. aims devise new test autonomy based an analy...

The Boards of Trustees for the two Social Security and the two Medicare Trust Funds recently released their annual reports to Congress detailing the operations of the trust funds during 1992 and their projected financial status for future years. Based on the Trustees' best estimates, the reports show: The Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund is projected to be able to pay b...

S ome 17 years ago, shortly after the 1983 Code of Canon Law was promulgated, CHA asked me to prepare a brief study of the administration of ecclesiastical goods; the resulting article, "Canonical Duties, Liabilities of Trustees and Administrators," appeared in Health Progress in 1985.' Although many of the points made in that article remain valid today, some do not because, in the intervening ...