The Medicare/Medicaid slowdown.Although Medicare and Medicaid Medicare and Medicaid U.S. government programs in effect since 1966. Medicare covers most people 65 or older and those with long-term disabilities. Part A, a hospital insurance plan, also pays for home health visits and hospice care. costs are on the rise, the rate of growth decelerated in 2003 compared with previous years, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study in the January/February 2005 issue of Health Affairs. And growth came to a near-screeching halt for nursing home services, for which Medicare spending increased just 1.3% in 2003, compared with an 11.4% increase in 2002--a figure explained, the study says, by the expiration of restorative re·stor·a·tive adj. 1. Of or relating to restoration. 2. Tending or having the power to restore. n. A medicine or other agent that helps to restore health, strength, or consciousness. funding provisions. And increases in Medicaid spending for nursing homes slowed to 1.0% in 2003, after an 8.1% increase in 2002, as states began buckling buckling Mode of failure under compression of a structural component that is thin (see shell structure) or much longer than wide (e.g., post, column, leg bone). Leonhard Euler first worked out in 1757 the theory of why such members buckle. down on Medicaid costs. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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