Benefits test. 2.1 What outcomes are you seeking to achieve through sharing information?
Benefits test. 2.1 What outcomes are you seeking to achieve through sharing information? To promote improved outcomes for the patient • To ensure the patient wishes are known. • To increase opportunities for care and treatment to align with patient wishes and values where possible. • To increase opportunities for the patient to receive the right care in the right place by the right team through the availability of the right information. • To support services to ensure the patient is cared for on the best care pathway for them which may include reducing inappropriate and avoidable hospital admissions • To reduce the need for requests to the patient for basic and previously provided information and reduce the burden on the patient at stressful times to repeat basic and important information.
Benefits test the IRS regulations indicate that the plan must provide the same benefits for both HCEs and non-HCEs. A self-insured health plan discriminates as to benefits unless all benefits provided for participants who are HCEs are also provided to all other participants. All benefits for dependents of HCEs must also be available on the same basis for the dependents of all other employees. The self-insured health plan will also be considered discriminatory as to benefits if it covers HCEs and the type or amount of benefits subject to reimbursement is offered in proportion to compensation. When applying nondiscrimination test, all employees of a controlled group or affiliated service group, as defined in the IRC Sec. 414, are treated as employed by a single employer.
Benefits test. NBS tests the Health FSA to ensure that the same benefit provided to Participants who are highly compensated individuals is provided to all other Participants as required under Code §§ 105(h)(2)(B) and 105(h)(4).
a. Eligibility Test: NBS tests the DCAP benefit to ensure that it does not discriminate in favor of highly compensated employees or their dependents in terms of eligibility as required under § 129(d)(3) of the Code.
Benefits test. 4.1 What outcomes are you seeking to achieve through sharing information? Patient identifiable information is being shared in order to encourage women of eligible screening age with learning disabilities who have not attended their breast screening appointment to do so.
4.2 What benefits are there to patients? The intended effect on the patient is improvement in health outcomes. Those eligible for other cancer screening programmes are likely to participate in those as well, to improve overall health outcomes for these groups that currently don’t access these services.
4.3 What benefits are there to the Sending Controller organisation? Through the use of health promotion initiatives, working in collaboration with other health and social care providers, the project aims to break down the barriers where inequalities in access exist and increase uptake in breast screening in line with national targets thereby improving earlier diagnosis of breast cancer.
4.4 What benefits are there to the Receiving Controller? Through the use of health promotion initiatives, working in collaboration with other health and social care providers, the project aims to break down the barriers where inequalities in access exist and increase uptake in breast screening in line with national targets thereby improving earlier diagnosis of breast cancer.
4.5 Are there any wider population health benefits? The project will address the inequalities of access to Breast screening from the geographical areas the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust are responsible for breast screening.
Benefits test. What outcomes are you seeking to achieve through sharing information? The data is already being shared between the partner organisations on an informal basis for the purpose of direct care. The introduction of Connecting your Care allows for the sharing of information in a more secure environment. Connecting your Care also allows for much more timely access which will improve patient care. Connecting your Care will create a safe and secure environment to share information between organisations involved in providing care to patients and service users within South West London. This replaces other relevant previous electronic and non-electronic data sharing and creates a platform to share with more organisations across South West London, which is more reflective of current patient and service user pathways.
