Articles - Healthcare Coverage en-us http://www.thescizone.com/info N/A http://www.thescizone.com/info webmaster@thescizone.com 20 http://www.thescizone.com/info/articles/497/1/First-Published-SF-6D-Utility-Measures-For-Paraplegia-And-Tetraplegia/1.html The cost of care and equipment for a person with a high-level spinal cord injury (tetraplegia) is estimated as $50,000 to $280,000 AUD per annum dependent on level of injury. Important way governments and other health funders can work out the value of these health care expenditures to society is through utility values which take into account people's health preferences. This paper provides the first SF-6D utility values for people with a spinal cord injury webmaster@thescizone.com (Super Admin) Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thescizone.com/info/articles/139/1/The-Medicare-Maze/Page-1.html  If you are newly injured and need information about disability benefits, or if you're approaching age 65, and looking at retirement, then it might be time to check out Medicare and its many options. webmaster@thescizone.com (Super Admin) Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/info/articles/25/1/Social-Security-Disability-Benefits/Page-1.html When to apply: You should apply as soon as you become disabled. webmaster@thescizone.com (Super Admin) Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/info/articles/235/1/Why-home-Care-Costs-So-Much/Page-1.html  THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS POSTED ON JIM LUBIN'S VENT USERS' MAILING LIST JANUARY 15, 1999.Institutional costs are eligible for Medicaid reimbursement to states. Home services aren't. I wrote awhile ago about activists pushing the Medicaid Community Attendant Services Act in Congress. That bill proposes that in-home services be covered by Medicaid - not just by a "waiver" program the state may, or may not, choose to offer. But this bill has gone nowhere. webmaster@thescizone.com (Super Admin) Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thescizone.com/info/articles/211/1/Facing-the-Realities-of-Managed-Care-and-HMOs/Page-1.html  Bill, 55, was repairing his roof on a Saturday afternoon when he fell, sustaining a C4 spinal cord injury. He was rushed to the hospital and had surgery. Afterward, while he lay in the intensive care unit, a hospital representative informed him that his medical insurance would only cover 30 days of inpatient rehabilitation, and would not cover rehabilitation in the hospital of his choice. webmaster@thescizone.com (Super Admin) Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0400