Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

A The role of governmental regulation and control in long-term care are based on two major reasons: The government is the major payer of Medicare, Medicaid and other public health programs and as such, most residents in long-term facilities are covered by one or both of these programs. The government also take advantage of the above leverage position to intervene and monitor financial expenses as well as the quality of care provided. Also, the nursing industry provides care to the weak, fragile

with some services including respite care, short-term care, long-term care and hospice support etc. (Nursing Home Rating, 2014). Moreover, the mission at Bridgewater Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center medical staff is to show comfort to the residents and their families. Now even though this nursing home and rehabilitation center is said to show the upmost care for their residences deficiencies has caused violations with a ‘penalty fine of $6,500’ according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

Regulatory Agencies Paper HCS/437 August 18, 2014 Joyce Wooten Instructor / Nicolas Gross Regulatory Agencies Paper The concept of regulatory agencies has many boundaries and their responsibility is to license long-term care facilities to ensure compliance of laws and regulations. It is stated that in the United States the long-term care (LTC) marketplace is normally recognized as one of the most strongly regulated sectors in the economy, although there are differences

The concern people face when looking at long-term care is the funding. Medicaid will likely be drained of funds long before the country’s aging population is past its peak and while there are some options of insurance coverage, not everyone may afford them. There has been development

was there and now grandmas there twenty seven years later. Nursing homes have changed a lot in twenty seven years. There are a lot of restrictions; Medicare and Medicare are very involved in the treatment of the residents. Social services involve the family in the treatment and well-being of each resident. Nursing facilities have three types of services, skilled nursing, rehabilitation and long term care. Skilled nursing is for some sort of medical problem, rehabilitation is for patients, that need

enacted legislation in 1987 requiring nursing homes participating in Medicare and Medicaid to comply with certain quality of care rules. This law, known as the Nursing Home Reform Act, says that nursing homes “must provide services and activities to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident in accordance with a written plan of care.” To participate in Medicare and Medicaid, nursing homes must comply with the federal requirements for long

American health care system, bringing coverage to Americans who would otherwise be disqualified for several reasons whether it be loss of coverage from employer, parents or pre-existing health conditions. The second major initiative is strengthening Medicare with emphasizing resources and coverage for preventive health care. All feeding into the umbrella

organization of the Grinnell Regional Medical Center (GRMC). The GRMC is a health care center that offers both acute inpatient care and outpatient care services in rural central Iowa. At the GRMC clinics, there is need for a closed-loop referral communications to occur between the primary care provider and the specialist provider. Currently, the primary care provider will refer a patient to

budget request with a specified interest in those line items on Medicare. “We urge you to abstain from including proposals in the FY2016 budget, namely those included in the past budgets; that would shift additional health care costs to people with Medicare.” (Whitman, Debra. Letter. 20 January 2014) President Obama’s 2016 $4 trillion budget includes $400 billion savings over a span of 10 years; by cutting funds from Medicare, Medicaid and other programs in order to offset the country’s $1.8 trillion

If you don’t understand issues of the payment plan, you should have a lawyer look them over before signing. Then there will be the decision to pay for services. It is important to remember that Medicare will not pay for long stays in a nursing home. The Federal Medicare program and private “Medigap” (Medicare supplemental) insurance only cover short periods of home health or nursing home care. They pay for a short stay in a nursing home for someone who is getting better after