1000 Search Results for Managed Care
cultural characteristics chinesse korean heritage, assigned cultural groups, discuss factors considered provide a culturally competent environment care patients cultural groups. 2)Among cultural groups, traditional folk health healing practices, inc Continue Reading...
Summarize Complementary Therapies and the APNs Role in guiding their Inclusion in Treatment Plans.
Complimentary therapies are a part of the practices which are utilized to help patients to improve their underlying state of health and reduce the n Continue Reading...
financial analysis and more specifically financial ratios has been noted by Finkler, Marc and Baker (2007, p.253) to be important to managers since it can help them in making informed decisions. In this paper, we present the concept of ratio analysi Continue Reading...
hospital is that it does not any longer believe in the promises that it made when the founders set up the hospital. The second problem is due to the large differences that exist among the members of the Board and as a result the CEO is not finding i Continue Reading...
Patient Centered Medical Homes
In the 1960s, the medical home concept referred to as patient centered medical home was developed.In order to reform the healthcare in the U.S.; the patient centered medical homes are evolving as a centerpiece of effor Continue Reading...
Ethical Self-Assessment
The role of ethics in healthcare is to mitigate risks and ensure oversight of each strategic process area, ensuring patient treatment quality consistency and transparency. The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Continue Reading...
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Nursing and the ER
The Emergency Room is often one of the most visible parts of healthcare for political debate. It is also one of the most difficult environments for a modern nurse. It is interesting that one of the founders of modern Continue Reading...
medical home concept and describe the principles (operational characteristics mentioned above) of the PC-MH as defined by these organizations. How does this concept differ from the gatekeeper concept of Managed Care Organizations?
According to the Continue Reading...
The wait time improvement alone could potentially greatly improve the community health by allowing people with limited means access to care in a way that does not further tax their time and health (p. 699).
Improve access to preventative care
Heal Continue Reading...
HITECH Act
What organizations should do to ensure that the correct system is selected
Healthcare institutions across America have increased their efforts of implementing electronic medical records in order to conform to the requirements of the HIT Continue Reading...
Qualitative, meetings and seminars, then questions to ascertain efficacy.
Smallish, 65 in one hospital.
Survey and qualitative observation.
Clear and effective communication goals were met using positive educational interventions.
Longitudinal Continue Reading...
For all employees with chronic health problems such as arthritis, asthma, and diabetes, FedEx offered a disease management program to give them guidance. The emphasis is on health improvement and wellness maintenance, rather than treating on treatin Continue Reading...
Hospital CFO
You are the hospital CFO, trying to solve the managed care problem. Based on the scenario and advice provided. What will you do?
The first step is to see if Mega Plan can live with a 20% discount. The way that this can be achieved is t Continue Reading...
Group members feel free to experiment with behavioral changes and discuss deep secrets without fear of judgment or reprisal. Members are also exposed to the struggles of others. This can build empathy and understanding, reduce the feeling of being a Continue Reading...
Public Policy and Health
Increasing premium costs for managed care have considerable influence for America's workforce. The rise in the financial burden on the workforce to contribute to their health care plans to assist offset increasing premiums p Continue Reading...
appease the allegation that medical errors beset the healthcare industry and generate major risk to patients. As with any matter posing a potentially significant impact on a population, the government has a sizable interest. Lately, the government d Continue Reading...
Social Determinants of Health
Quality Improvement and Risk Management in Health Care
A health care system is an institution or organization of people using resources to deliver health care services to meet the target population's health needs. Ther Continue Reading...
Health care reform is term used to refer to the creation of government health policy that impact the delivery of healthcare in the United States of America. Primarily, healthcare attempts to widen the population that gets healthcare through the two c Continue Reading...
America's Medical System is Broken: Can it Be Saved and at What Cost?
It is not an undisclosed reality that the health care system of the United States of America is the most expensive in the world. The American government spends almost two times as Continue Reading...
The "bottom line" fiscal situation has become exacerbated by been the proliferation of HMOs, Health Maintenance Organizations, or managed care insurance plans. There is a huge debate regarding these services, their focus on costs and, some feel, not Continue Reading...
EMTALA Violations in the Healthcare System
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was introduced because of concerns that patients who needed emergency medical treatment were being denied access to that treatment due to inabil Continue Reading...
2). The complexity of the situation is more pronounced in some settings than others, of course, and it is reasonable to posit that healthcare organizations represent some of the most complex organizational settings because of the wide range of profe Continue Reading...
S. health care system, although it is the heavily financed and sponsored by different public and private agencies, therefore it is believed that the adoption of the similar system in the state of America will not only degrade the health and medical s Continue Reading...
Universal Health Care
At least once a week news shows do segments about the rising cost of health care in America. There was a time when those who did not have insurance were those who did not work and they were provided with health care through the Continue Reading...
Health Management (Discussion questions)
First student
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is a law governing how and when patients may be denied treatment or moved from one hospital to another in cases of extreme medical conditi Continue Reading...
Health Care -- Risk Management -- Session Plan
The simple, general definition of "insurance" undergoes numerous variations according to the natures of insureds and of possible claimants. A healthcare organization, by virtue of its complexity, may be Continue Reading...
Medicaid has long been an issue of debate throughout the country. Healthcare is a critical need and many Americans do not have any healthcare. Therefore, Medicaid is vitally important because it provides healthcare to the poor. For many years, both f Continue Reading...
There is no other source for many patients who come through the private system to receive follow-up care other than the public health system. Where there was once virtually very little coordination between private and public systems, today we see ex Continue Reading...
Market Orientation of Medical Diagnostic Units
Dissertation for Master of Health Administration i. Introduction ii. Objectives iii. Description iv Administrative Internship v. Scope and Approach vi. Growth vii. Methodology viii. Hypothesis ix. Surve Continue Reading...
In other words, physicians authorize the nurse practitioner to prescribe certain medications -- perhaps not all but those medications that are most often required by patients -- without getting approval from a physician. It saves time and is primari Continue Reading...
Such oversight provides the coordinated and integrated coverage that the taxpayers expect and deserve ("Kansas health policy," 2010).
This is especially the case in managing and coordinating care for the aged and disabled population in the state of Continue Reading...
RATIONALE for the ELEMENTS
The rationale for the elements stated within the mission, vision and values statement is that through educating and assisting patients in signing up for and choosing their provider under the Medicare Advantage plan that t Continue Reading...
Health Insurance Costs
Perhaps it is simply that we all need a few good villains in our life, and with the Cold War firmly over we must look closer to home to find our bad guys. Or perhaps it is simply that there is a great deal of villainy in socie Continue Reading...
Fellowship and Career Objective
Throughout more than seven years of service to the healthcare industry, working in an administrative capacity as a liaison between insurance providers, patients and third-party payers, I have dedicated my professiona Continue Reading...
The plaintiff, however, has a burden of proof prior to any other technical issues. In addition, because of the nature of the allegation, and the fact that normal members of a jury or judge cannot be expected to understand complext medical terms and Continue Reading...
Some of the funding is to come from a national prevention trust fund (Kaiser Fdn, 2010). However there are additional funding resources for the near-term that are readily assessable.
Social Justice
The National Secretary of Health has been called Continue Reading...
Absent this safety net, these healthcare consumers would be forced to simply do without or to go without basic living needs in order to meet the high costs of insurance if it is provided by the employers at all. In the final analysis, the support an Continue Reading...
All workers in the United States are covered by the Workers' Compensation Law. When an employee dies or becomes injured while working, the worker's compensation law requires that worker's compensation insurance be paid to the person or his or her s Continue Reading...
As a result, the Govt. has been eager to encourage self-medication, where probable, in an endeavor to save money and time as optimizing convenience for the consumer. (the UK OTC Pharmaceuticals Market: UK pharmaceutical market report)
E) Is there a Continue Reading...
Ordinary insurance companies were not willing to extend insurance services to older citizens since it was considered a losing proposition.
With the enactment of Medicare, 99% of older people in the country have health insurance and poverty among th Continue Reading...