Geographic patterns of county prevalence rates of disability benefit receipt are shown for the Social Security Administration's Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. Prevalence rates were calculated by dividing each county's December 1990 DI and SSI disability caseloads by the population aged 18-64 for that year in that county. Separate maps were also constr...

PURPOSE The legislative and regulatory issues surrounding the reimbursement of pharmacists for cognitive services are reviewed and billing practices for a pharmacist-physician collaborative drug therapy management service (DTMS) in a family medicine clinic are examined. A case study is offered to illustrate the real-world application of these practices. SUMMARY As regimens of prescription med...

Reimbursement for chronic dialysis consumes a substantial portion of healthcare costs for a relatively small proportion of the total population. Each country has a unique reimbursement system that attempts to control rising costs. Thus, comparing the reimbursement systems between countries might be helpful to find solutions to minimize costs to society without jeopardizing quality of treatment ...

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Takaful is the Shariah compliant alternative to conventional insurance. Unlike conventional insurance, takaful insurance avoids prohibited concepts according to Islamic law, such as interest (Riba), gambling (Maysir) and uncertainty (Gharar). While there is a rapid growth in the takaful industry worldwide, it is in its early stages in the UK. In the UK there are only two takaful providers, one ...

omentum is increasing to base physician reimbursement not just on the provision of a ervice but also on other factors, such as quality and safety measures, provision of ecommended care, and avoidance of wasteful care. Purchasers of care refer to this as alue-based purchasing. Physicians should think of this as value-based reimbursement VBR). If you have yet to see revenue implications from this...

In this issue, Katerndahl et al quantify the complexity of family physician care compared with cardiology and psychiatry. When accounting for the length of the encounter, the complexity in family medicine is one-third higher than cardiology and 5 times higher than psychiatry. The measured complexity of family medicine is highly relevant, yet it remains unacknowledged, as evidenced by the reimbu...

The introduction of telemedicine service into the health care system has been rapidly accelerated during global COVID-19 pandemic. This paper investigates optimal strategy and reimbursement policy by comparing three cases, i.e., case without service, providing with reimbursement, reimbursement. Stylized queue models are used to depict offline online serving processes. Arriving patients decide s...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to review reimbursement environment as well as pricing and reimbursement requirements for drugs in selected Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. Methods: A questionnaire-based survey was performed in the period from November 2016 to March 2017 among experts involved in reimbursement matters from CEE countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Eston...