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First Published SF-6D Utility Measures For Paraplegia And Tetraplegia
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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
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The Medicare Maze
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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.
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Social Security Disability Benefits
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When to apply: You should apply as soon as you become disabled.
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Why home Care Costs So Much
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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.
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Facing the Realities of Managed Care and HMOs
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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.
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