Essays on Kickback

1. Goals of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) The physician quality reporting system is an effective tool that helps the physicians in order to evaluate and measure the processes of health care, the structure of the organization and the perceptions of the patients. The goal of this system is to provide the high-quality health care. Some of the most crucial goals of PQRS include timely care to the patients, patient-centered, effective and efficient. a. Advantages and disadvantages of the PQRS program

Advantages

In case of the reporting through the claims, it requires only 20 unique Medicare patients In case ...

Successful marketing is one of the most important segments of home health care industry (home health agencies, hospices, private duty home care companies) which includes advertising, public relations, promotions, and sales. According to National Association for Home Care and Hospice, home health service is the dynamic business with more than 12 million patients in America. There are no state laws that prohibit home health care organizations from advertising in newspapers, magazines, television, radio or internet. However, home health care products and services can be legally marketed under a variety of special complex marketing laws, rules, regulations and government agencies ...

Introduction

Many people classify white collar crime as a crime of opportunity and the statistics of the offenders show that they are mostly individuals entrusted with a positon from which they illegally syphoned personal gain. The two areas of white collar crime to be discussed in this paper are the health care fraud and the weights and measures crimes. These two are the most common and used by millions of people each day. You may only see a burglary in your area once or twice in a lifetime or hear of a shooting very seldom but the health care fraud ...