There are several beneficiaries.
"Well before that point," Mr. Foster added, "Congress would have to intervene to prevent the withdrawal of providers from the Medicare market and the severe problems with beneficiary access to care that would result".
Without local capacity to continue assistance in the absence of the organization's local presence, the possibility for abrupt stoppage of assistance is great and may have severe implications on beneficiaries and future attempts at reinstating assistance.
Many others retained the restrictions but loosened them to make the drugs available to beneficiaries with less severe liver damage.
So there are some beneficiaries in this pretty severe downturn?
This means that in calculating QALY gains, it does not matter whether, for example, a QALY is gained in the context of a severe or mild illness or whether the beneficiary is 10 or 80 years old.
That is, they will result in provider payment rates so low that Medicare beneficiaries are likely to face severe problems of access to care either because providers refuse to serve them (a problem already endemic among Medicaid beneficiaries) or because institutional providers such as safety net hospitals have literally gone bankrupt as a consequence of being paid too little.
The Norden brothers selected Tommy Cox, a 12-year-old boy from North Andover, Massachusetts, who lost his left leg after a severe boating accident last September, as the first beneficiary of A Leg Forever.
Popularize the problems faced by the application of cochlear implants to the 1/2 to 3/4 million severe to profoundly deaf individual who are potential beneficiaries of this technology.
As severe experience has taught, projects work only if beneficiaries feel concerned and have ownership of their proposed intervention.
Respondents in the Baltussen et al [ 49] study were more likely to select cost-effective programs for severe diseases that offer large individual health benefits to many beneficiaries, reduce poverty and target the middle-aged.
