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Health Legislation Confronting the 92nd Congress

Description: This report provides an overview of health related legislation and proposals which are likely to be debated in the 92nd Congress.
Date: February 1, 1971
Creator: Klepe, Edward R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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How Medicare Pays for Doctor's Services

Description: This report discusses the method used to pay doctor's through Medicare.
Date: November 9, 1972
Creator: Markus, Glenn R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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How Medicare Pays Hospitals

Description: This report discusses the process of paying hospitals through Medicare.
Date: November 9, 1972
Creator: Markus, Glenn R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Autistic Children: Background Information and Legislative Interest

Description: This report discusses children with autism and provides a brief description of autism and its treatments as well as Congressional interest in providing assistance for children with autism.
Date: December 4, 1973
Creator: Fairman, Edith M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 (P. L. 93-222)

Description: This report discusses the provisions of the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 (P. L. 93-222) which provided funding to assist in the start-up of health maintenance organizations (HMO).
Date: January 28, 1974
Creator: Kline, Janet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hypertensive Disease and Control Programs in the United States

Description: This report discusses the prevalence of hypertensive disease (high blood pressure) in the United States and federal programs aimed at controlling and reducing hypertensive disease.
Date: March 5, 1974
Creator: Chapman, Cynthia B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hospital Reimbursement

Description: This report discusses the process of hospital reimbursement by health insurers and regulations governing the process.
Date: September 9, 1974
Creator: Markus, Glenn R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Key Facts on Alcohol and Alcoholism

Description: This report provides statistics and facts about the drinking of alcohol and alcoholism.
Date: November 11, 1974
Creator: Ebeler, Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health Maintenance Organizations

Description: This report discusses the "health maintenance organization", which is an entity that provides specific health services to its members for a prepaid, fixed payment.
Date: January 22, 1982
Creator: Price, Richard J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health Insurance: The Pro-Competition Proposals

Description: For more than a decade, Congress and the Executive Branch have tried to stem spiraling health care costs through various regulatory actions at the Federal and State levels. Planning laws, for example, focus regulatory attention on the capacity of the health care industry to provide health services. Other laws have created programs to monitor and control the use of services provided to individual patients. Direct wage and price controls were applied to the health industry in the early 1970's and… more
Date: December 6, 1982
Creator: Lundy, Janet P. & Markus, Glenn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Handicapped Infants: The Final Section 504 Regulation and Legislative Proposals

Description: This report discusses the final rule regarding handicapped infants published in the Federal register by HHS on January 12, 1984. Legislative action in response to the Infant Doe issue is also discussed.
Date: February 8, 1984
Creator: Smith, Mary F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cash and Non-Cash Benefits for Persons with Limited Income: Eligibility Rules, Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY1981-83

Description: This report summarizes basic eligibility rules, as of May 1984, for more than 70 cash and non-cash programs that benefit primarily persons of limited income. It also gives funding formulas, benefit levels, and, for fiscal years 1981-1983, recipient numbers and expenditure data for each program.
Date: June 18, 1984
Creator: Burke, Vee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare/Medicaid Reimbursement: Selected References

Description: This report is a compilation of selected articles, books, and executive agency and congressional publications on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, primarily to health facilities and physicians.
Date: August 1, 1984
Creator: Shirley-Reynolds, Saundra
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare: Physician Payments

Description: This report discusses payments for physicians services under Medicare that are made on the basis of a fee schedule.
Date: June 24, 1987
Creator: O'Sullivan, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Catastrophic Health Insurance: Comparison of the Major Provisions of the "Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act of 1987" (H.R. 2470, as passed by the House July 22, 1987) and the "Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act of 1987" (S. 1127, as passed by the Senate Finance Committee, July 27, 1987)

Description: Catastrophic Health Insurance: Comparison of the Major Provisions of the “Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act of 1987” (H.R. 2470, as passed by t h e House July 22, 1987) and the "MEDICARE CATASTROPHIC LOSS PREVENTION ACT OF 1987" (S. 1127, as reported by the S e n a t e Finance Committee, July 27, 1987)
Date: August 5, 1987
Creator: O'Sullivan, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Catastrophic Health Insurance: Medicare

Description: Catastrophic medical costs are broadly defined as large unpredictable health care expenses; these are usually associated with a major illness or serious injury. The absence of catastrophic health insurance protection for the elderly is the subject of concern in this report.
Date: September 1, 1987
Creator: O'Sullivan, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Parental Leave: Legislation in the 100th Congress

Description: The report discusses the argument for why America should set a standard long-term maternity leave and temporary medical disability leave. Then the opposition to this position discusses why maternity leave and medical disability leave should be decided by the employer, not the Federal government.
Date: October 1, 1987
Creator: Gladstone, Leslie W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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