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Modeling Strategic Relationships for Process Reengineering
, 1995
"... Existing models for describing a process (such as a business process or a software development process) tend to focus on the \what " or the \how " of the process. For example, a health insurance claim process would typically be described in terms of a number of steps for assessing and appr ..."
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and approving a claim. In trying to improve orredesign a process, however, one also needs to have an understanding of the \why " { for example, why dophysicians submit treatment plans to insurance companies before giving treatment? and why do claims managers seek medical opinions when assessing treatment
Rendering of Surfaces from Volume Data
- IEEE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND APPLICATIONS
, 1988
"... The application of volume rendering techniques to the display of surfaces from sampled scalar functions of three spatial dimensions is explored. Fitting of geometric primitives to the sampled data is not required. Images are formed by directly shading each sample and projecting it onto the picture ..."
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boundary surfaces are presented. Independence of shading and classification calculations insures an undistorted visualization of 3-D shape. Non-binary classification operators insure that small or poorly defined features are not IosL The resulting colors and opacities am composited from back to front along
How Social Security and Medicare Affect Retirement Behavior in a World of Incomplete Markets
- ECONOMETRICA
, 1997
"... This paper provides an empirical analysis of how the U.S. Social Security and Medicare insurance system affect the labor supply of older males in the presence of incomplete markets for loans, annuities, and health insurance. We estimate a detailed dynamic programming (DP) model of the joint labor ..."
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of how the U.S. Social Security and Medicare insurance system affect the labor supply of older males in the presence of incomplete markets for loans, annuities, and health insurance. We estimate a detailed dynamic programming (DP) model of the joint labor
Coverage
"... • Uninsured children use health care services substantially less than do insured children. Their parents have low confidence in their ability to access services when their child is ill. • Healthy Kids programs increase access of subscribers to services equivalent to Healthy Families, MediCal or priv ..."
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• Uninsured children use health care services substantially less than do insured children. Their parents have low confidence in their ability to access services when their child is ill. • Healthy Kids programs increase access of subscribers to services equivalent to Healthy Families, MediCal
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, 2005
"... SINCE the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Labor began offering public medical insurance coverage for 18F-FDG PET for malignancies in 2002, the number of PET facili-ties has steadily increased. Because of PET’s ability to ..."
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SINCE the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Labor began offering public medical insurance coverage for 18F-FDG PET for malignancies in 2002, the number of PET facili-ties has steadily increased. Because of PET’s ability to
DIVISION OF HEALTH EXAMINATION
"... Estimates of seIf-perceived health care needs including data on the last visit to a doctor, routine medical care, dentzd care, hospitalization, and medical insurance coverage for adults ages 25-74 years by race, sex, age, and famiIy income group. DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 81-1668 ..."
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Estimates of seIf-perceived health care needs including data on the last visit to a doctor, routine medical care, dentzd care, hospitalization, and medical insurance coverage for adults ages 25-74 years by race, sex, age, and famiIy income group. DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 81-1668
Insuring consumption against illness
- American Economic Review
, 2002
"... One of the most sizable and least predictable shocks to economic opportunities in developing countries is major illness. We investigate the extent to which families are able to insure consumption against major illness using a unique panel data set from Indonesia that combines excellent measures of h ..."
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of health status with consumption information. We � nd that there are signi�cant economic costs associated with major illness, and that there is very imperfect insurance of consumption over illness episodes. These estimates suggest that public disability insurance or subsidies for medical care may improve
Health Insurance Costs and Declining Coverage
, 2006
"... 2005), the share of health-care spending in GDP has been rising rapidly in the United States and other advanced industrial countries since at least 1960. For example, data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) indicate double-digit annual increases in premiums for private he ..."
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health plans during the years 2001–2003, which significantly increased the overall share of business and household expenditures devoted to medical services.As Jones (2005) and others have argued, the rapid increase in the price of medical care likely is demand-driven to a large degree, reflecting
The Effect of Adult HIFA Waiver Expansions on Insurance Coverage of
"... This article, submitted to Medical Care Research and Review on XXXX, XXXX, was revised and accepted ..."
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This article, submitted to Medical Care Research and Review on XXXX, XXXX, was revised and accepted
Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the
- National Health Interview Survey January-September 2008 (National Center for Health Statistics
"... • Once each year, this quarterly report presents insurance coverage rates for selected states. In 2009, the percentage of persons who were uninsured at the time of interview among the 20 largest states ranged from 3.7 % in Massachusetts to 24.6 % in Texas. • In 2009, 46.3 million persons of all ages ..."
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• Once each year, this quarterly report presents insurance coverage rates for selected states. In 2009, the percentage of persons who were uninsured at the time of interview among the 20 largest states ranged from 3.7 % in Massachusetts to 24.6 % in Texas. • In 2009, 46.3 million persons of all
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