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Evaluation of results for each patient & adjustment of the care plan; Evaluation of overall program effectiveness & adjustment of the program [4] In the context of a health insurer or health plan it is defined as: [5] A method of managing the provision of health care to members with high-cost medical conditions.
Through its more than 80 disease-specific financial assistance programs, PAN serves well over 100,000 patients each year from every US state and territory. [4] Without the PAN Foundation’s support, these patients would have faced impossible choices—with many simply going without their life-saving treatment.
The Hill-Burton Act of 1946, which provided federal assistance for the construction of community hospitals, established nondiscrimination requirements for institutions that received such federal assistance—including the requirement that a "reasonable volume" of free emergency care be provided for community members who could not pay—for a period for 20 years after the hospital's construction.
Privatization is the process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency, charity or public service from the public sector (the state or government) or common use to the private sector (businesses that operate for a private profit) or to private non-profit organizations.
Expanded access or compassionate use is the use of an unapproved drug or medical device under special forms of investigational new drug applications (IND) or IDE application for devices, outside of a clinical trial, by people with serious or life-threatening conditions who do not meet the enrollment criteria for the clinical trial in progress.
The program first began in 1987 with appropriations to help pay for AZT. The program was expanded in 1990 with the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act (commonly referred to as the Ryan White Care Act. [1] Most recipients are below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) and 43 percent are below 100% the FPL.
The patient's health record is a legal document that contains details regarding patient's care and progress. [3] The types of information captured during the clinical point of care documentation include the actions taken by clinical staff including physicians and nurses, and the patient's healthcare needs, goals, diagnosis and the type of care ...
Patient dumping or homeless dumping is the practice of hospitals and emergency services inappropriately releasing homeless or indigent patients to public hospitals or onto the streets instead of transferring them to a homeless shelter or retaining them.