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pro vyhledávání: '"Access to Health Care Services in Rural Areas: Delivery and Financing Issues"'
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Health Care Financing Review
This regular feature of the journal includes a discussion of recent trends in health care delivery, employment, and prices. The statistics presented in this article are valuable in their own right for understanding the relationship between the health
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Health Care Financing Review
Health care financing review, vol 17, iss 1
Health care financing review, vol 17, iss 1
The demand for nursing facility (NF) beds has been growing with the aging of the population and many other factors. As the need for nursing home care grows, the Nation's capacity to provide such care is the subject of increasing concern. This article
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Health Care Financing Review
This study analyzes the 1993 National Directory of HMOs to determine the extent to which rural counties are included in health maintenance organization (HMO) service areas. Two specific questions are addressed: (1) How do the patterns of service area
Autor:
Vogel, W. Bruce, Miller, Michael K.
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Health Care Financing Review
This article explores two neglected questions: (1) Does the relationship between hospital concentration and costs vary between urban and rural markets? and (2) Do hospital costs in non-metropolitan areas vary with rurality? Covariance model results u
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Health Care Financing Review
Only 17 of the 38 health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that have Medicare risk contracts and offer coverage to commercial clients in rural counties include the rural counties in their Medicare plan service areas. Rural counties in which HMOs offer
Autor:
Norton, Stephen A.
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Health Care Financing Review
This study analyzes changes in Medicaid physician fees from 1990 to 1993. Data were collected on maximum allowable Medicaid fees in 1993 and compared with similar 1990 Medicaid data as well as the fully phased-in Medicare Fee Schedule (MFS). The resu
Autor:
Grigsby, Jim, Kaehny, Margaret M., Sandberg, Elliot J., Schlenker, Robert E., Shaughnessy, Peter W.
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Health Care Financing Review
The use of telemedicine has recently undergone rapid growth and proliferation. Although the feasibility of many applications has been tested for nearly 30 years, data concerning the costs, effects, and effectiveness of telemedicine are limited. Conse
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Health Care Financing Review
This article summarizes the perspectives gained in the course of evaluating a 4-year demonstration program that supported rural hospital networks as mechanisms for improving rural health care delivery. Findings include: (1) joining a network is a pop
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Health Care Financing Review
The dynamics of financing health care among various levels of government and the private sector are rapidly changing; structural relationships among health care providers are also being altered. These changes are placing increased importance on State
Autor:
M L, Rosenbach, D A, Dayhoff
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Health Care Financing Review
This article employs a quasi-experimental, pre/post comparison group design to determine whether rural hospital closures (n = 11) have had a detrimental impact on access to inpatient and outpatient care for the Medicare population. Closure areas expe