Healthcare Of The United States

Health care in America is a serious issue as it involves families that are unable to receive accessible, affordable and quality medical treatment. Middle class or impoverished families are unable to receive the benefits of health care due to low income levels and a volatile economy. Politicians discuss the reformation of the health care system, but people who are uninsured suffer the consequences of a system that overlooks middle class families in favor of wealthy families, a dominant issue for conflict theorists. Some argue that the health care system is not in need of reform and state that

Primary care is the backbone of many industrialized nations, but is the US one of them? Unfortunately, the answer is no. The US lags behind such developed nations in its accessibility of primary care by a huge difference. The United States healthcare system fails to ensure the timely preventative and primary care for its residents. The current estimates indicate that there is merely one physician for every 2,500 patients. Not only Medicare beneficiaries, but also privately insured adults struggle in accessing the right primary care physician at the right time. Moreover, maldistribution of physicians only exacerbates the problem, especially for those residing in health professional shortage areas (HPSA).15 Approximately, sixty-five million Americans live in designated primary care shortage areas.13 Such underserved population faces higher disease and death rates and health disparities that then result in higher rates of hospitalizations and emergency department visits—in other words, expensive medical bills.21 More governmental control on the geographic location of primary care physicians can be a first-step to fixing the shortage problem.

The U.S. health care system consumes a huge amount of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, and is a massive system that provides essential and world-class care to millions of people (Niles, 2016). As a result of this huge burden of cost associated with it, the U.S. healthcare system has been critiqued, and has played a major role in sparking debates about changes to the way the U.S. healthcare system is run and organized. Thus, healthcare has been on the forefront of many American and politician minds over the last decade and beyond, and many proposals and attempts have been made to change and adapt the complex and influential U.S. healthcare system. One such attempt, that brought about incredibly influential change to the U.S. healthcare

Improving the access and affordability of health insurance coverage for all Americans should be a primary concern for those who help create the laws of the land. At this date, there are roughly 44 million Americans without any type of healthcare coverage. Another 38 million people have inadequate health insurance (PBS, 2012). What this all means is that the people who need it the most are putting off seeing a doctor until last moment and then usually end up visiting an emergency room. If they cannot pay for the visit, the cost of that ER visit falls back on the taxpayers, people who have health

2008 was an election year and also the year Frontline’s program, Sick Around the World was made. A big topic pertaining to the election year was healthcare reform. How were the presidential candidates going to “fix” the U.S. health care system that is supposedly the best in the world? At the time of this program, the U.S. was 37th in the world in terms of fairness and quality (Palfreman, 2008). Other rich countries were ahead of this U.S. in this ranking but were spending a lot less. Frontline’s reporter, T.R. Reid traveled to 5 different countries to examine their health care systems on how this was possible and hopefully come away with any ideas that could potentially help with the U.S. health care system.

Every country worldwide has it 's own way of providing and making health care available for its citizens. More specifically, the developed nations all have their own system in how they make their health care available. Some are more expensive, some provide better quality of care, some are available to all citizens and some are available only to those who can afford it. For the first time in United States history, a health care act has passed, that will claim to insure everyone nationwide regardless of their income. This act adopted is also know as the ACA. This paper will go into detail about health care that is provided not only in the US, but in other countries world wide. We will discuss the benefits of certain systems and the pros and cons of some of the systems. The costs, the most successful, the increased access to primary care providers, the use of technology, and what needs reform.

The United States Healthcare system is different from other countries for a variety of reasons. Other wealthy developed countries have a national insurance programs based on global budgets. There are three basic models for the structure of their National Healthcare Systems. These programs, mostly cover all citizens in those countries. In contrast, the United States is yet to develop such a healthcare system. Two programs which impact the United States healthcare system is Medicare and Medicaid. The United States has different external factors which influence and shape the system. This paper will evaluate the key differences between the United States healthcare system and other nation’s healthcare systems. The differences between Medicare and Medicaid programs will be analyzed. Lastly, how managed care reduces the overall cost of care the Florida Medicare form will be discussed.

The U.S. health care system faces challenges and it is urgent that the American people become aware of these challenges. There are approximately 46 million Americans who are uninsured, and many insured Americans who face rapid increases in premiums have to pay out-of-pocket costs. As Congress and the Obama administration consider ways to invest new funds to reduce the number of Americans without insurance coverage, people must address shortfalls in the quality and efficiency of care that lead to higher costs and to poor health outcomes. If something is not done soon, there will be many more who will not have health care coverage that is affordable or they will be without coverage altogether.

October 1, 2015 is the go live date for ICD 10. The transition to ICD 10 reaches many areas including patient care, charge capture, and collections and reimbursements. On the patient care side, ICD 10 provides the opportunity to better identify the specific nature of a procedure due to the increase in codes from 18,000 under ICD 9 to over 80,000 under ICD10. The Organization has spent 3 years

The United States healthcare system is one of the most expensive systems in the world with 16% of its gross domestic product (GDP) assigned to it, it is expected that this spending may increase up 20% of the US GDP by 2016.1 Unfortunately, despite the large amount of money delegated to this system there are still widening gap in health disparities existing in the US, based on geographical areas, race/ethnic groups or class.2 Other factors such as genetics, social circumstances, environmental exposures, behavioral patterns, and lopsided access to opportunities encourage such disparities.1,3 The number of people that do not have access to healthcare in the US is alarming, for instance in 2005 about 40 million Americans did not receive healthcare services because of their inability to purchase health insurance policy and/or pay out of pocket.1

The quality of and lack of healthcare in the United States has been a major issue and in fact a major failing in terms of keeping the society healthy. This paper relates to the lack of good health care for many people based on the insurance companies' unfavorable policies. It also delves into the Affordable Care Act and how that legislation is designed to remedy some of the unfair policy and other flaws in the commercial health insurance industry.

The implementation of ICD-10-CM required advance preperation in health organizations. Staff needed to be trained on the changes and software had to be updated to accomadate the new system. There are several changes that should improve the coding process and therefore impact the coding professional. One major change is that all codes are alphanumeric which increases the number of codes that can be used. Another change is that the length of codes changed from five digits to seven characters. Also, some three-character categories have not been used. These three changes should allow for easier expansion in the future to avoid any more major revisions in the near future. The increased digits also allows for more specifity in the codes for

The United States, a rich and well known nation that is known to be a world superpower. Yet can 't seems to figure out healthcare. It is illogical for powerful first world countries to be dominating industries while struggling to provide universal healthcare, it is wealthy enough to afford it, it saves the lives of many, improves overall performance, and a right to health care is a human right. It doesn 't make sense how countries with a lower GPD have access to universal healthcare and have a longer life expectancy than the U.S. Which raises the question, why are there so many Americans that have not gone to the doctors in years? Why are many Americans plagued with terminal diseases with no means of treatment is provided? To those who are

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), American Medical Association (AMA), private insurance providers, and a multitude of other healthcare governing agencies have set forth thousands of policies and guidelines that hospitals, nurses, physicians, and even patients must adhere to in order to participate in the healthcare system The politics of healthcare is not limited to within the United States alone. The diagnostic terminology currently in use by America known as the ICD-9. This classification system was created by the World Health organization in 1978, and is considered outdated by many healthcare providers in the US as well other countries around the world. According to the World Health Organization (2015), there are 117 countries that have updated their nosology to ICD-10 and are using this to report mortality data as a primary indicator of health status. The use of ICD-10 by so many other countries has no doubt put pressure on the United States to update out healthcare recording system. It has taken more than a decade, but our country will be changing to ICD-10 on October 1st of this

Additional benefits for patients from ICD-10 include better detection of fraud and abuse. There are many cases where an individual had used another individuals health insurance benefits for their own personal use. For example, there was a case from July 7, 2015 where a physician underreported his income and claimed millions in false and fictitious medical supply expenses. The physician was caught and sentenced 24 months in prison and was ordered to forfeit 17.6 million dollars. With the improved coding system it will be more