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Substance abuse, especially of alcohol and prescription drugs, for adults 60 and over is a fast-growing health problem in the U.S.. According to the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health ...
Each part of Medicare covers an aspect of substance use disorder treatment. Read more to learn about the costs and what’s covered.
For example, Cigna Group agreed to pay $172 million last year to settle a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department over its Medicare Advantage practices for allegedly using in-home health risk ...
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
Behavioral models make use of principles of functional analysis of drinking behavior. Behavior models exist for both working with the person using the substance (community reinforcement approach) and their family (community reinforcement approach and family training). Both these models have had considerable research success for both efficacy ...
The Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) is an entity established in the United States by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to combat fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicare program.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid services evaluated Georgia nursing homes and rated each based on health inspections, staffing and quality measures like the number of residents in pain or up ...
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act; Long title: An act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the medicare program and to strengthen and improve the medicare program, and for other purposes. Acronyms (colloquial) Medicare Modernization Act or MMA ...