<s docid="FR940104-2-00039" num="17"> The Medicare law does not, however, provide an all-inclusive list of specific items, services, treatments, procedures, or technologies covered by Medicare.</s>

<s docid="FR940104-2-00039" num="18"> Thus, except for the examples of DME in section 1861(n) of the Act, some of the medical and other health services listed in section 1861(s) of the Act, and exclusions from coverage listed in section 1862(a) of the Act, the statute does not specify medical devices, surgical procedures, or diagnostic and therapeutic services that should be covered or excluded from coverage.</s>

<s docid="FT922-461" num="36"> Some 60 per cent of clients come through referrals from GPs and consultants; a similar proportion use private health insurance schemes to pay for acupuncture and physiotherapy.</s>

<s docid="FT932-9008" num="8"> Clinicare claims the top-of-the-range Carte Blanche breaks new ground in the range of treatment covered.</s>

<s docid="FT932-9008" num="9"> As well as hospital care, it pays for prescriptions and GP fees as well as dentists' and opticians' charges.</s>

<s docid="FT932-9008" num="10"> Alternative medicine is also available.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="23"> Basic principles of public health care The basic principles for public health care are: --1) adherence to human and citizen rights in the field of health care and provision of State guarantees related to these rights; --2) priority of preventive measures in the field of health care; --3) availability of sociomedical care; --4) social protection of citizens in the event of illness; --5) responsibility of State executive and administrative agencies, enterprises, institutions and organizations, regardless of nature of ownership, and officials for ensuring the rights of citizens in the field of health care.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="41"> Competence of republics of the Russian Federation The following matters in the field of health care are within the purview of republics of the Russian Federation, to: - 1) pass legislative and other legal acts, monitor adherence to federal legislation, exercise legislative initiative in the field of public health care; - 2) protect human and citizen rights and freedoms in the field of health care; - 3) implement federal State policy in the field of public health care; define bases of State policy of republics of the Russian Federation in the field of public health care, execute federal programs for health care development; develop and execute republic-level programs to develop health care, disease prevention, medical care, medical education of the public and other matters in the field of public health care; - 4) establish the structure of administrative agencies of the State health care system of republics of the Russian Federation, procedure for organizing them and their duties; develop a network of institutions in the State system of health care in republics of the Russian Federation; material and technical support of enterprises, institutions and organizations in the State health care system, monitor adherence to quality standards of medical care; - 5) define the share of expenses for health care in setting up the republic-level budget of republics of the Russian Federation, set up special-purpose funds intended for public health care; approve programs of mandatory health insurance; establish additional preferential terms for some population groups with respect to sociomedical aid and drugs; - 6) offer rebates on taxes, collections and other budgetary payments following established procedure for enterprises, institutions and organizations involved in public health care; - 7) manage natural resources, protect the environment, provide for ecological safety; - 8) protect the indigenous habitat and traditional lifestyle of small ethnic communities; - 9) provide sanitary and epidemiological welfare and conditions for implementation of State sanitary and epidemiological oversight on the territory of Russian Federation republics; determine, for this purpose, the factors having an adverse effect on health of citizens, inform the public about them and implement measures to eliminate them, execute preventive, sanitary-hygienic, epidemic-control and environment-protective measures; - 10) coordinate the work of State executive and administrative agencies, business entities, individuals in State, municipal and private health care systems in the field of public health care; family, mother, father, and child care, sanitary and hygienic education of the public; - 11) implement measures directed toward saving human lives and safeguarding health in emergency situations, inform the public about circumstances in the zone of the emergency and steps taken; - 12) issue permits for use of new methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment, new medical technologies in republics of the Russian Federation; - 13) organize and coordinate training of health care personnel, establish preferential terms for such personnel in addition to those adopted on the federal level; - 14) license medical and pharmaceutical work, monitor performance of municipal licensing commissions; - 15) coordinate research, finance republic programs of research in the field of citizen health care; - 16) inform the public regularly, including the use of mass media, about the incidence of socially significant diseases and diseases presenting a danger to others; - 17) implement international collaboration in the field of publichealth care; - 18) deal with other issues in the field of public health care that are not within the purview of the Russian Federation.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="45"> Petersburg The following matters in the field of health care are within the purviewof autonomous oblasts, autonomous okrugs, krays, oblasts, cities of Moscow and St.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="46"> Petersburg, to: - 1) pass legal acts, monitor adherence to federal legislation, exercise legislative initiative in the field of public health care; - 2) protect human and citizen rights and freedoms in the field of health care; - 3) implement State policy of the Russian Federation in the field of public health care; execute federal programs to develop health care; develop and execute regional programs for development of health care, disease prevention, rendering medical care, medical education of the public and other issues in the field of public health care; - 4) set up administrative agencies of the State health care system of autonomous oblasts, autonomous okrugs, krays, oblasts, cities of Moscow and St.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="47"> Petersburg; develop a network of institutions in State and municipal health care systems, as well as institutions of the system of social protection of the public; material and technical support of enterprises, institutions, and organizations in the State public health system; check adherence to quality standards of medical care; - 5) define the share of expenses for public health in setting up their own budget, set up special-purpose funds earmarked for public health; finance and implement development of primary medical and health care pertaining to other forms of medical care and drugs; implement measures for health insurance; establish additional preferential terms for some population groups in rendering sociomedical aid and supplying drugs; - 6) provide rebates on taxes, collections and other budgetary payments following established procedure for enterprises, institutions and organizations involved in public health care; - 7) coordinate the work in the field of public health of State executive and administrative agencies, executives, individuals in the State, municipal and private health care systems; - 8) protect the indigenous habitat and traditional lifestyle of small ethnic communities; - 9) manage natural resources, protect the environment, provide for ecological safety - 10) provide sanitary and epidemiological welfare and conditions for implementation of State sanitary and epidemiological oversight on subordinate territories; determine factors having an adverse effect on citizens' health, inform the public about them and carry out measures to eliminate them, implement preventive, sanitary-hygienic, epidemic-control and environment-protective measures; - 11) protect families, mothers, fathers and children; educate the public in sanitation and hygiene; - 12) execute measures to save human lives and protect them in emergency situations, inform the public about conditions in the zone of the emergency and steps taken; - 13) license medical and pharmaceutical work, monitor performance of municipal licensing commissions; - 14) organize and coordinate training of health care personnel; - 15) inform the public regularly, including use of mass media, about the incidence of socially significant diseases and diseases presenting a danger to others; - 16) implement international collaboration in the field of public health care; - 17) deal with other issues in the field of public health care that are not within the purview of the Russian Federation.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="51"> Competence of local self-government agencies The following matters in the field of health care are within the purview of local self-government agencies, to: - 1) check adherence to legislation in the field of public health care; - 2) protect human and citizen rights and freedoms in the field of health care; - 3) set up administrative agencies in the municipal health care system, develop a network of institutions in the municipal health care system, define the nature and scope of their work; create conditions for development of a private health care system; organize primary medical-sanitary and other types of sociomedical aid, make it accessible, check adherence to quality standards of medical care, provide citizens with drugs and medical supplies within the subordinate territory; - 4) set up their own budget for health care expenses; - 5) provide sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the public and conditions for implementation of State sanitary-epidemiological oversight within the subordinate territory; define factors having an adverse effect on health, inform the public about them, execute measures to eliminate them, implement preventive, sanitary-hygienic, epidemic-control and environment protecting measures; - 6) coordinate and monitor performance of enterprises, institutions and organizations in the State and municipal health care systems within the limits of their authority, monitor quality of sociomedical aid in the private health care system; - 7) create special-purpose funds for public health care; implement measures for mandatory health insurance of citizens; - 8) license medical and pharmaceutical work within the subordinate territory at the request of the pertinent subject State administrative agency of the Russian Federation - 9) protect the environment and provide ecological safety; eradicate consequences of disasters and natural calamities; - 10) develop and provide for the work of institutions dealing with rehabilitation of the disabled and individuals with mental disorders, organize their training, professional retraining and job placement, develop specialized enterprises, shops and other forms of organization of industry for these population groups, as well as special institutions for patients with incurable diseases; - 11) inform the public regularly, including use of mass media, about the incidence of socially significant diseases and diseases presenting a danger to others; - 12) implement measures to protect families, mothers, fathers and children; sanitary and hygienic education of the public.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="65"> The State health care system also includes medical-preventive [therapeutic and preventive care] institutions, research institutions, educational institutions, pharmaceutical enterprises and organizations, pharmacies, preventive sanitary institutions, institutions of forensic medical expertise, services of material and technical support, enterprises that manufacture medical agents and equipment, and other enterprises, institutions and organizations, which are State property or subordinated to administrative agencies of the State health care system.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="70"> Municipal health care system Municipal health care systems comprise municipal health care administrative agencies and municipality-owned medical-preventive and research institutions, pharmaceutical enterprises and organizations, pharmacies, institutions of forensic medical expertise, educational institutions, which are juridical entities and perform their work in accordance with these Fundamentals, other legal acts of the Russian Federation, republics of the Russian Federation, autonomous oblasts, autonomous okrugs, krays, oblasts, cities of Moscow and St.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61562" num="368"> Use of folk medicine methods is permitted in medical-preventive institutions in the State or municipal health care system by decision of administrators of said institutions, in accordance with Article 43 of these Fundamentals.</s>

<s docid="LA040590-0119" num="79"> While the cost of treatment, including room and board, is about $560 a day, an administrator said, most of the charges are covered by insurance.</s>

<s docid="LA091789-0225" num="66"> Most companies offer dental coverage as well as standard medical, and a few also offer coverage of prescription drugs, vision, hearing, psychiatric and preventive care, and alternative treatments such as acupuncture.</s>

<s docid="LA101389-0153" num="10"> Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona were mandated by the state to allow chiropractic care for state-mandated insurance programs several years ago.</s>

<s docid="LA101389-0153" num="12"> Because of this evidence, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona have arbitrarily limited chiropractic care in their medical programs because of the fear of runaway costs.</s>

