Health Care Utilization
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Health Care Utilization
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Recent health care reform measures have expanded access to medical care by expanding health coverage to 32 million Americans during the next 10 years and also provide a 10 percent Medicare bonus for most primary care doctors for the next five years. This reform also increases funding for the National Health Service Corps and the country’s community health centers. This bill also reinforces Title VII of the Public Health Service Act. This is the only federal program that actually provides funds to academic departments of family medicine and family medicine residency programs which will help increase training of family doctors.
The health care reforms will also eliminate co-payments for Medicare patients for preventative services. The reforms also will exempt preventative services from deductibles starting January 1 2013.All new private health insurances plans will also be required to provide the same coverage’s within six months. These provisions will also apply to all insurance plans by 2018.
This legislation will also set Medicaid payment rates for primary care services. These payments will equal 100 percent of Medicare payment rates, including payments for office visits and immunizations in 2013 and 2014. Some of the other provisions of the reform include: it bars health insurance companies from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions -- the ban takes effect for children six months after enactment, and for all others starting in 2014; within six months after enactment, it will prohibit health insurance companies from dropping people from coverage when they get sick; and it bans health insurance companies, within six months after enactment, from placing lifetime caps on coverage.
Utilization of health care access is...
HCS /212 11/25/2012
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Recent health care reform measures have expanded access to medical care by expanding health coverage to 32 million Americans during the next 10 years and also provide a 10 percent Medicare bonus for most primary care doctors for the next five years. This reform also increases funding for the National Health Service Corps and the country’s community health centers. This bill also reinforces Title VII of the Public Health Service Act. This is the only federal program that actually provides funds to academic departments of family medicine and family medicine residency programs which will help increase training of family doctors.
The health care reforms will also eliminate co-payments for Medicare patients for preventative services. The reforms also will exempt preventative services from deductibles starting January 1 2013.All new private health insurances plans will also be required to provide the same coverage’s within six months. These provisions will also apply to all insurance plans by 2018.
This legislation will also set Medicaid payment rates for primary care services. These payments will equal 100 percent of Medicare payment rates, including payments for office visits and immunizations in 2013 and 2014. Some of the other provisions of the reform include: it bars health insurance companies from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions -- the ban takes effect for children six months after enactment, and for all others starting in 2014; within six months after enactment, it will prohibit health insurance companies from dropping people from coverage when they get sick; and it bans health insurance companies, within six months after enactment, from placing lifetime caps on coverage.
Utilization of health care access is...