The officials accused the defendants of using beneficiaries' names to bill Medicare for approximately $71 million in services that they never provided.
However, dually eligible beneficiaries (DEBs) are not statistically different from Medicare-only beneficiaries (MOBs) in the likelihood of using office-based physician and dental services at the 5% level of significance.
An example of a service that might be outsourced is the enrollment of beneficiaries using enrollment kits that rely on biometric IDs.
From the deified Pharaohs of Egypt to the divine right of English monarchs, the beneficiaries of inequality used religion to justify their elevated status.
[New York magazine] In addition to visiting Goldman Sachs, organizers of Occupy Wall Street events are also regularly visiting another bailout beneficiary, Deutsche Bank, using the atrium of its building at 60 Wall Street for meetings.
Taiwan's NHI program, instituted in March 1995, provides coverage for more than 99%% of the country's legal residents; therefore, the NHIRD offers detailed healthcare services information on clinical visits for each insured beneficiary, using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnostic and procedure codes [ 23].
We initially adjusted solely for age, sex, and race at the level of the individual beneficiary using linear regression models (SAS GENMOD procedure) incorporating 20 indicator variables to represent all age, sex, and race combinations (a logistic regression model yielded similar results).
In many cases, these modal shift policies aim at a wide audience of potential beneficiaries, using policy instruments such as taxation, regulation, infrastructural measures or the granting of financial incentives [12].
This analysis used an activity-based cost model, and combined ACF accounting data with estimates of partner and beneficiary costs derived using an ingredients approach to build an estimate of total program resource use.
For example, in the U.S. in 2001, a study by Wrobel et al. (10) of Medicare beneficiaries using data from 1996 to 1997 described an 8.6-fold regional variation in the rate of LEA.
