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Social Media continues to transform our world:
Gadgets-With Users High on Social Networking, Facebook Could Transform Mobile Devices
Most journalists use social media such as Twitter and Facebook as a source
Google Buzz: When social media come to you
Google's leap into social networking stirs privacy-issue buzz
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Interesting question . . .
Could mobile technology have stopped state dinner security breach?
What do you think?
Long-Term Care (LTC)
Definition: A set of health care, personal care and social services required by persons who have lost, or never acquired, some degree of functional capacity (e.g., the chronically ill, aged, disabled, or retarded) in an institution or at home, on a long-term basis.
The term is often used more narrowly to refer only to long-term institutional care such as that provided in nursing homes, homes for the retarded and mental hospitals.
Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, or in various types of facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Most long-term care is custodial care.
Medicare doesn't pay for this type of care if this is the only kind of care a person needs.
However, Medicaid and long-term care insurance plans do provide some coverage for long-term care.
Ambulatory services such home health care, which can also be provided on a long-term basis, are seen as alternatives to long-term institutional care.
"TALKING TECHNOLOGY WITH LEROY JONES, JR."
August 17, 2009
TOPIC: "NEW SHOW - PEW RESEARCH CENTER"
With Susannah Fox, the Associate Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project
What is Base Year Costs?
Definition: In Medicare, the amount a hospital actually spent to render care in a previous time period. Depending on the hospital's Medicare cost reporting period, the base year was the fiscal year ending on or after September 30, 1982 and before September 30, 1983 for hospitals in operation at that time.
Recent legislation has made dramatic changes in cost reporting opportunities for healthcare providers, limiting these reimbursements.
What is Base Capitation?
Definition: Specified amount per person per month to cover healthcare cost, usually excluding pharmacy and administrative costs as well as optional coverages such as mental health/substance abuse services.
What are Bed Days?
Definition: Number of inpatient hospital days per 1,000 health plan members for a specified period, usually annual.
