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The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products from the United States that is developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), formerly the Department of Public Aid, [1] is the code department [2] [3] of the Illinois state government that is responsible for providing healthcare coverage for adults and children who qualify for Medicaid, and for providing child support services to help ensure that Illinois children receive financial support from both parents.
Nightscout is a collection of software tools, including mobile clients, to enable DIY cloud-based continuous glucose monitoring "…for informational and educational purposes." [ 31 ] Individual components are available under various open-source licenses, including the GNU GPL , [ 32 ] GNU AGPL , [ 33 ] MIT License , [ 34 ] and BSD licenses .
In 2002, initial costs were estimated to be $50,000–70,000 per physician in a 3-physician practice. Since then, costs have decreased with increasing adoption. [49] A 2011 survey estimated a cost of $32,000 per physician in a 5-physician practice during the first 60 days of implementation. [50]
At $8,000, the mean cost per stay billed to Medicaid was $2,000 less than the average cost for all stays. [107] Medicaid does not pay benefits to individuals directly; Medicaid sends benefit payments to health care providers. In some states Medicaid beneficiaries are required to pay a small fee (co-payment) for medical services. [2]
The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is an agency of the Illinois state government that operates and maintains the IT infrastructure, telecommunications, software development, and web development of the state. [1]
Know your state’s minimum insurance requirements. Your new carrier shouldn’t let you sign up for anything less than the required coverage. But some states have higher requirements than others.
[12] [13] Softening the eligibility requirements for Medicaid was a central goal of the ACA, [14] forming a two-pronged policy along with subsidized private insurance via health insurance marketplaces to expand health insurance coverage in the U.S. [15] [7] [3] The Medicaid expansion provision of the ACA allowed states to lower the income ...