Catastrophic Health Insurance and Medical Assistance Reform: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session ... March 27, 28, and 29, 1979 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administrative AFL-CIO amended American amount appropriate approved Association bill CALIFANO carriers catastrophic coverage catastrophic health insurance catastrophic illness catastrophic insurance Chairman coinsurance Committee community mental health comprehensive Congress consumer copayment cost containment covered deductible doctors drug effect elderly eligible employer Federal financing health benefits health care costs health care services health insurance coverage health insurance plan health insurance policies health insurance program health maintenance organizations health plan incentives income increase individual inpatient legislation low-income Medicaid Medicare ment mental health center mental health services mental illness million national health insurance National Urban League nursing occupational therapy outpatient partial hospitalization patient payment percent period persons physician poor population premium present private health insurance private insurance problems proposal protection psychiatric reimbursement RIBICOFF Senator DOLE Senator TALMADGE Social Security Act strophic subsection tion title XVIII treatment utilization
Popular passages
Page 127 - Treasury to invest such portion of the Trust Fund as is not, in his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States...
Page 210 - ... or the date of such final judgment, as the case may be) in an action brought in any appropriate district court of the United States. In such an action, the validity, amount, and appropriateness of such penalty shall not be subject to review.
Page 624 - Agreements for Transfer Between Extended Care Facilities and Hospitals "(1) A hospital and an extended care facility shall be considered to have a transfer agreement in effect if, by reason of a written agreement between them or (in case the two institutions are under common control) by reason of a written undertaking by the person or body which controls them, there is reasonable assurance that — "(1) transfer of patients will be effected between the hospital and the...
Page 143 - Council shall each be entitled to receive the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-18 of the General Schedule for each day (including travel time) during which they are engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Council.
Page 126 - Congress whenever the Board is of the opinion that the amount of the Trust Fund is unduly small; and...
Page 624 - ... (1) transfer of patients will be effected between the hospital and the community mental health center whenever such transfer is medically appropriate as determined by the attending physician ; and (2) there will be interchange of medical and other information necessary or useful in the care and treatment of individuals transferred between the institutions, or in determining whether such individuals can be adequately cared for otherwise than in either of such institutions.
Page 19 - Fund is unduly small; and (4) Review the general policies followed in managing the Trust Fund, and recommend changes in such policies, including necessary changes in the provisions of law which govern the way in which the Trust Fund is to be managed. The report provided for in paragraph (2) shall include a statement of the assets of, and the...
Page 518 - ... general population. Up to 25 percent of older persons have been estimated to have significant mental health problems. Yet only 4 percent of patients seen in public outpatient mental health clinics and 2 percent of those seen in private psychiatric care are elderly. Part of the problem is attitudinal. Too often the elderly are told, and many believe, that adverse psychological symptoms are natural aspects of growing old. Senility is a term loosely applied to thousands of older Americans, yet as...
Page 457 - EMPLOYEES' HEALTH BENEFITS PLANS "SEC. 1310. (a) Each employer which is required during any calendar quarter to pay its employees the minimum wage specified by section 6 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (or would be required to pay...
Page 618 - ... a plan for furnishing such services has been established, and is periodically reviewed, by a physician, and (iii) such services are or were furnished while the individual is or was under the care of a physician.48 For purposes of this section, the term "provider of services...