I say this because I find it unusual for a 12% drop in our overall payments from Medicaid; especially when there is a growing number of an older population for Community South Medical Center. I believe that the strategic mission and plan needs to be a growth in the residential care, independent living, in-home nursing, hospice, advanced cardiac services, pulmonary services, and a neurosurgery center. I believe that it needs a growth so we can show the public that we have the services that the local population needs for their growing age and needs. Before we grow our services we first must understand why there has been a decrease in Medicaid payments and curtail our strategies to fit our major population of the elderly. Maybe they are finding their care elsewhere? If so we need to find out why and recruit them back to our …show more content…
As of right now Community South Medical Center’s reimbursement source is: 25% Medicaid (up 20%); 35% Medicare (down 12 %); 25% employer sponsored health insurance (unchanged), 8% managed care (down 20 percent), 4% private pay (unchanged) and 4% no-pay (up 25%). Managed care and Medicare were the two percentile drops that affected the medical center. It shows that there is a up rise in the elderly and we are seeing more of them which is why we need to prepare for that population. The center should also look into if the population of Medicare users is down or if we are just seeing more elderly; if there is a less population of Medicare users we need to look into what needs to be done to get that population