Year 2000 and Medicare

Year 2000 and Medicare

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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Improper Fiscal Year 2000 Medicare Fee-for-Service Payments

Improper Fiscal Year 2000 Medicare Fee-for-Service Payments

Author: Michael F. Mangano

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 143790324X

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The objective of this review by the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General was to estimate the extent of FY 2000 fee-for-service Medicare payments that did not comply with Medicare laws and regulations. Based on HHS¿s statistical sample, HHS estimates that improper Medicare benefit payments made during FY 2000 totaled $11.9 billion, or about 6.8% of the $173.6 billion in processed fee-for-service payments reported by the Health Care Financing Admin. (HCFA). As in past years, these improper payments could range from inadvertent mistakes to outright fraud and abuse. HHS recommendations address the need for HCFA to sustain its efforts in reducing improper payments. Tables and graphs.


Year 2000 and Medicare

Year 2000 and Medicare

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13:

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Medicare

Medicare

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1990-02-01

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0309042305

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Health care for the elderly American is among our nation's more pressing social issues. Our society wishes to ensure quality health care for all older people, but there is growing concern about our ability to maintain and improve quality in the face of efforts to contain health care costs. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance answers the U.S. Congress' call for the Institute of Medicine to design a strategic plan for assessing and assuring the quality of medical care for the elderly. This book presents a proposed strategic plan for improving quality assurance in the Medicare program, along with steps and timetables for implementing the plan by the year 2000 and the 10 recommendations for action by Congress. The book explores quality of careâ€"how it is defined, measured, and improvedâ€"and reviews different types of quality problems. Major issues that affect approaches to assessing and assuring quality are examined. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance will be immediately useful to a wide audience, including policymakers, health administrators, individual providers, specialists in issues of the older American, researchers, educators, and students.