In diesem Lehr- und Fachbuch wird für alle im Gesundheitssektor tätigen Profis das deutsche Gesundheitssystem mit seinen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, komplexen Versorgungsstrukturen und unterschiedlichen Finanzierungswegen anhand von Fallbeispielen anschaulich und verständlich erläutert....

Among the many features of the 2010 health care legislation is a new entitlement program to fund long-term care called Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or CLASS. Beginning possibly as early as January 2011, employees of participating employers will be automatically enrolled in...

This paper is to evaluate how the new element of public health insurance for long-term care services (henceforth, LTCI) financially affects the preexisting National Health Insurance program (NHI). We focus on examining the role of the LTCI benefit in service use and costs of the elderly members...