Product Description: Written by an elder law attorney with over 25 years of experience, this book will help anyone with a family member faced with a long-term stay in a nursing home who wishes to preserve at least some of their assets by qualifying for the Medicaid program...read more

Product Description: If you wish to advise clients how to qualify for nursing home Medicaid while protecting their assets, this is the definitive book! Written by an elder law attorney with over 25 years of experience, this manual is the professional edition version of attorney Heiser's best-selling Medicaid Secrets book...read more

Product Description: To provide effective service in helping clients understand how they are going to be affected by health care reform and how to obtain coverage, pursue an appeal, or plan for long-term care or retirement, you need the most current information from a source you can trust - Medicare Handbook...read more

Manage the Medicare maze — from enrollment dates to plan options! To get the most from Medicare, you need accurate information that steers you clear of bad advice and costly pitfalls. Medicare For Dummies is what you need to navigate Medicare successfully and get the best out of the complex system. AARP’s Medicare expert, Patricia Barry, gives you plain-language explanations of how Medicare works and what steps you need to take to make it work for you, including:  How you qualify for Medicare and when to enroll according to your personal situation What Medicare covers and what it costs Ways to reduce out-of-pocket expenses Tips for dealing with doctors and switching plans You'll even get information about proposed changes to Medicare that you should know about and tips for staying healthy. If you're one of the millions of Americans looking to get the lowdown on Medicare, this hands-on, friendly guide has you covered.

Product Description: Consolidated billing remains a constant challenge for compliance and billing long-term care professionals. Consolidated Billing for Long-Term Care helps skilled nursing facilities (SNF) figure out which billed services they are responsible for paying and which they are not...read more

Product Description: The future of the home health care industry is patient-centered care and quality outcomes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sharing with the world how your agency stacks up to the competition through its Patient Survey Star Ratings and Quality of Patient Care Star Ratings (formerly HHC Star Rating)...read more

Product Description: The story of Medicaid comes alive for readers in this strong narrative, including detailed accounts of important policy changes and extensive use of interviews. A central theme of the book is that Medicaid is a “weak entitlement,” one less established or effectively defended than Medicare or Social Security, but more secure than welfare or food stamps...read more

Product Description: Save time and avoid the hassle of searching the CMS website for the home health regulations you need. The Home Health Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines, 2015 Edition compiles all of Medicare's 2015 home health Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines to provide easy access and reference for homecare agencies...read more

Surveys topics in psychological theory and practice that are most valuable to practicing psychiatrists, including obsessional-compulsive disorders, anxiety states, depression, schizophrenia, drug and alcohol dependence, applied and applicable neuropsychology, childhood disorders, mental health and late life, and rehabilitation. Using an empirical approach that supports conclusions and theories with experimental results, it provides a cognitive and behavioral orientation reflecting current trends in clinical psychology. Concludes with an assessment of the use of psychology in psychiatric practice.

Product Description: Ample evidence documents the potential for people with complex health and behavioral health conditions who have been homeless to achieve housing stability, pursue recovery, manage chronic health conditions, and stay out of hospitals, if they receive appropriate health care, other services and supports, and care coordination...read more

Product Description: Medicare-Medicaid enrollees (MMEs) are individuals age 65 and older and those under 65 with qualifying disabilities who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid coverage. MMEs are among the most vulnerable people served by Medicare and Medicaid...read more

Product Description: This memorandum describes implementation challenges and early impacts of a program intended to improve health and decrease health care expenditures among elderly residents of affordable housing developments. In July 2011, the Support and Services at Home (SASH) program was officially launched with the opening of the Heineberg panel and expanded to include 36...read more

Product Description: Medicare-Medicaid enrollees (MMEs) are individuals age 65 and older and those under 65 with qualifying disabilities who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid coverage. MMEs are among the most vulnerable people served by Medicare and Medicaid...read more

Product Description: Federal policymakers and health researchers have long recognized that the amount and quality of the health care services that Medicare beneficiaries receive vary substantially across different regions of the United States. Much of that variation does not appear to be caused by differences in beneficiaries’ health, and one widely-publicized estimate asserted that as much as 30 percent of Medicare expenditures may be unnecessary...read more

Product Description: Each state administers its Medicaid program in accordance with its own Medicaid plan, which determines the groups of individuals to be covered, services to be provided, methodologies for providers to be reimbursed, and the administrative requirements that states must meet...read more