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How to Make the Best of Your Health Insurance

Nurses Advocates

In this article, I talk about how to make the bet of your health insurance. I will start with health insurance and explain how it works and how you can make it work best for you and your family members. Having health insurance helps you pay for services to manage your health care.

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Understanding Medicare Training

American Medical Compliance

The following Understanding Medicare Training educates healthcare providers and patients on the purpose of the Medicare program in the United States. Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people aged 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and also people with End-Stage Renal disease.

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Medicare Pay Cuts Sought for Nursing Homes, Home Health Agencies

Health Leaders | Nursing

A congressional advisory panel is recommending that lawmakers reduce Medicare payments to nursing homes, home health agencies, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities in 2025.

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Does private health insurance cut public hospital waiting lists? We found it barely makes a dent

Nursing Review

Yuting Zhang , The University of Melbourne ; Jongsay Yong , The University of Melbourne , and Ou Yang , The University of Melbourne The more people take up private health insurance, the less pressure on the public hospital system, including shorter waiting lists for surgery. Governments encourage us to buy private hospital cover.

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Medicare Care Compare: Publicly reported performance measures

American Nurse

Takeaways: To help patients and their families make informed decisions about choosing health care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly reports quality performance measures. Timeliness: Treatment is available without long delays.

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Safeguarding Against Medical Identity Theft Training

American Medical Compliance

When someone uses your personal information, such as your name, Social Security number, or Medicare number, to make false claims to Medicare and other health insurers without your consent, it is known as medical identity theft. This wastes taxpayer money and interferes with your medical care. trillion in 2015.

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Navigating the No Surprises Act Training for Healthcare Providers

American Medical Compliance

In general, these standards apply to commodities and services given to individuals participating in group health plans or group or individual health insurance coverage, including Federal Employee Health Benefit programs.