Stephen Squire
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199558612
- eISBN:
- 9780191595011
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558612.003.0028
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter discusses equipment management in the healthcare setting, which has a major impact on patient safety. Equipment management involves the selection, procurement, installation, training for ...
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This chapter discusses equipment management in the healthcare setting, which has a major impact on patient safety. Equipment management involves the selection, procurement, installation, training for use, maintenance, and replacement of an organization's equipment fleet. Equipment standards are set out by statutory bodies including the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO), and the Department of Health (DH).Less
This chapter discusses equipment management in the healthcare setting, which has a major impact on patient safety. Equipment management involves the selection, procurement, installation, training for use, maintenance, and replacement of an organization's equipment fleet. Equipment standards are set out by statutory bodies including the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO), and the Department of Health (DH).
Terry L. Leap
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449796
- eISBN:
- 9780801460807
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449796.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This chapter examines fraud in fee-for-service systems and managed care plans. A common health care fraud that is linked directly to fee-for-service is the submission of fraudulent claims to the ...
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This chapter examines fraud in fee-for-service systems and managed care plans. A common health care fraud that is linked directly to fee-for-service is the submission of fraudulent claims to the Medicare program. Replacement of fee-for-service health care with managed care did not end health care fraud and abuse. This chapter explains how fraud is committed in major public insurance programs, focusing on cases of false diagnoses and unnecessary treatments, medical identity theft, and overcharging for services and equipment. It also considers upcoding, unbundling, and billing for uninsured and bogus services, along with fraud and abuse in nursing homes and home health care, rent-a-patient schemes, and pill-mill schemes. Finally, it discusses the emerging drug frauds in Medicare Part D, durable medical equipment frauds, and health care frauds that save money.Less
This chapter examines fraud in fee-for-service systems and managed care plans. A common health care fraud that is linked directly to fee-for-service is the submission of fraudulent claims to the Medicare program. Replacement of fee-for-service health care with managed care did not end health care fraud and abuse. This chapter explains how fraud is committed in major public insurance programs, focusing on cases of false diagnoses and unnecessary treatments, medical identity theft, and overcharging for services and equipment. It also considers upcoding, unbundling, and billing for uninsured and bogus services, along with fraud and abuse in nursing homes and home health care, rent-a-patient schemes, and pill-mill schemes. Finally, it discusses the emerging drug frauds in Medicare Part D, durable medical equipment frauds, and health care frauds that save money.
Terry L. Leap
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449796
- eISBN:
- 9780801460807
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449796.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This chapter examines frauds instigated by pharmaceutical companies as well as the medical supply and equipment industry. It first considers how large-scale frauds occur in the pricing, marketing, ...
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This chapter examines frauds instigated by pharmaceutical companies as well as the medical supply and equipment industry. It first considers how large-scale frauds occur in the pricing, marketing, and distribution of prescription drugs. It then analyzes various forms of pharmaceutical fraud, such as switching drug prescriptions to exploit Medicaid reimbursement rules. It also looks at pharmaceutical frauds committed by TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Serono, Purdue Frederick Company and Purdue Pharma, and Schering-Plough Corporation; how fraud may arise from physicians' consulting relationships with pharmaceutical and medical equipment manufacturers; and anti-trust violations in the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries. Finally, it discusses the high costs involved in health care fraud settlements and prosecutions.Less
This chapter examines frauds instigated by pharmaceutical companies as well as the medical supply and equipment industry. It first considers how large-scale frauds occur in the pricing, marketing, and distribution of prescription drugs. It then analyzes various forms of pharmaceutical fraud, such as switching drug prescriptions to exploit Medicaid reimbursement rules. It also looks at pharmaceutical frauds committed by TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Serono, Purdue Frederick Company and Purdue Pharma, and Schering-Plough Corporation; how fraud may arise from physicians' consulting relationships with pharmaceutical and medical equipment manufacturers; and anti-trust violations in the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries. Finally, it discusses the high costs involved in health care fraud settlements and prosecutions.
Alisha Rankin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226925387
- eISBN:
- 9780226925394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226925394.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter examines the medical practice of Anna of Saxony, focusing on the domestic and experimental traditions at the German courts. Her practice was a learning process, for she was considered as ...
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This chapter examines the medical practice of Anna of Saxony, focusing on the domestic and experimental traditions at the German courts. Her practice was a learning process, for she was considered as part of a popular interest in hands-on manipulations of nature. Her focus on the handiwork and her modification of both medical equipment and recipes reflects other experimental endeavors at court.Less
This chapter examines the medical practice of Anna of Saxony, focusing on the domestic and experimental traditions at the German courts. Her practice was a learning process, for she was considered as part of a popular interest in hands-on manipulations of nature. Her focus on the handiwork and her modification of both medical equipment and recipes reflects other experimental endeavors at court.
Rama V. Baru
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- July 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780199482160
- eISBN:
- 9780199097746
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199482160.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter analyses the role and social characteristics of market forces in the health service system in India. It argues that while there are studies that have individually focused on financing, ...
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This chapter analyses the role and social characteristics of market forces in the health service system in India. It argues that while there are studies that have individually focused on financing, provisioning, drugs and technology, there is a need to take a systemic view of it. It also examines the rise of corporate sector health care through the example of Apollo hospitals and illustrates the complex interaction between regional, national, and international capital and the support from the political class to facilitate the corporate sector in health care. The role of the diasporic networks and their access and influence on policymaking during the last three decades has been highlighted.Less
This chapter analyses the role and social characteristics of market forces in the health service system in India. It argues that while there are studies that have individually focused on financing, provisioning, drugs and technology, there is a need to take a systemic view of it. It also examines the rise of corporate sector health care through the example of Apollo hospitals and illustrates the complex interaction between regional, national, and international capital and the support from the political class to facilitate the corporate sector in health care. The role of the diasporic networks and their access and influence on policymaking during the last three decades has been highlighted.
Paul K. Longmore
Catherine Kudlick (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190262075
- eISBN:
- 9780190262105
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190262075.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, Cultural History
The professionals who produced telethons depicted their agencies as operating within an independent nonprofit sector. But in fact, the charities were part of the hybrid, private-public US system of ...
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The professionals who produced telethons depicted their agencies as operating within an independent nonprofit sector. But in fact, the charities were part of the hybrid, private-public US system of providing and paying for health care, social services, and medical research. Here, more than anywhere, the charity tradition and medical model thinking of disability solely as an individual pathology needing a cure framed the needs of people with disabilities, even as they limited disabled people’s access to health insurance and health care. In response, the disability rights movement’s sociopolitical analysis critiqued the system’s pervasive discrimination against disabled people. Meanwhile, the growing consumer movement led to questions that the telethon charities spent too much on fundraising and administration compared to program services. Moreover, though framed as a private alternative for government-run healthcare, the telethons barely covered the needs of those they claimed to help.Less
The professionals who produced telethons depicted their agencies as operating within an independent nonprofit sector. But in fact, the charities were part of the hybrid, private-public US system of providing and paying for health care, social services, and medical research. Here, more than anywhere, the charity tradition and medical model thinking of disability solely as an individual pathology needing a cure framed the needs of people with disabilities, even as they limited disabled people’s access to health insurance and health care. In response, the disability rights movement’s sociopolitical analysis critiqued the system’s pervasive discrimination against disabled people. Meanwhile, the growing consumer movement led to questions that the telethon charities spent too much on fundraising and administration compared to program services. Moreover, though framed as a private alternative for government-run healthcare, the telethons barely covered the needs of those they claimed to help.
Dan Ciuriak and Philip Calvert
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197553831
- eISBN:
- 9780197553862
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197553831.003.0027
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law
This chapter begins with an overview of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on economies of Asia generally, before turning to its impact on supply chains specifically, using the medical equipment ...
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This chapter begins with an overview of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on economies of Asia generally, before turning to its impact on supply chains specifically, using the medical equipment sector as a case study to illustrate the practical complexities. It then considers the pandemic’s implications for the multilateral trade system and its impact on Asian economic integration and regionalism. The pandemic has motivated attempts to increase robustness of supply chains through diversification away from excessive dependence on China and into Southeast and South Asia, in an incremental rather than revolutionary way; no wholesale departure from manufacturing in China is anticipated. For most countries, the most efficient response is to continue to rely on international trade and global production networks, while addressing the strategic concerns through improved emergency-preparedness stockpiles. The increased pressure for reshoring, however, is part of a larger disaffection with globalization and the erosion of the rules-based international trade system.Less
This chapter begins with an overview of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on economies of Asia generally, before turning to its impact on supply chains specifically, using the medical equipment sector as a case study to illustrate the practical complexities. It then considers the pandemic’s implications for the multilateral trade system and its impact on Asian economic integration and regionalism. The pandemic has motivated attempts to increase robustness of supply chains through diversification away from excessive dependence on China and into Southeast and South Asia, in an incremental rather than revolutionary way; no wholesale departure from manufacturing in China is anticipated. For most countries, the most efficient response is to continue to rely on international trade and global production networks, while addressing the strategic concerns through improved emergency-preparedness stockpiles. The increased pressure for reshoring, however, is part of a larger disaffection with globalization and the erosion of the rules-based international trade system.
Marika Warren, Michelle Warren, and Douglas Warren
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199686025
- eISBN:
- 9780191765940
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199686025.003.0020
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Pain Management and Palliative Pharmacology
One family’s experience with ALS shows that being prepared for the different stages allowed them to not only provide care in the home but to set and meet important personal goals. Challenges included ...
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One family’s experience with ALS shows that being prepared for the different stages allowed them to not only provide care in the home but to set and meet important personal goals. Challenges included timely access to needed equipment and finding care workers knowledgeable about ALS. Establishing relationships with care providers who anticipated needs and offered forthright information was key; early transition to palliative services was preferable. Bereavement support is important but neglected.Less
One family’s experience with ALS shows that being prepared for the different stages allowed them to not only provide care in the home but to set and meet important personal goals. Challenges included timely access to needed equipment and finding care workers knowledgeable about ALS. Establishing relationships with care providers who anticipated needs and offered forthright information was key; early transition to palliative services was preferable. Bereavement support is important but neglected.