The utilities of the cutting edge equipment in the facility were encased in up the feet of concrete and lined in lead, requiring precise planning. El Camino Hospital, established in 1961, has been designated as a nursing magnet hospital by the American Nursing Credentialing Center. Specialties include cardiac care, dialysis, cancer care, maternal child health services, orthopedics, neurosurgery and behavioral health. Whether constructing a first-hand office complex or a complex manufacturing facility, XL focuses on building strong partnerships and successful projects.…
Linda LaChance was recently diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2015. She came to our patient assistant program because she was a self-insured patient. Upon filling out various foundation applications to help Ms. LaChance with opportunity to afford her chemotherapy medications, Ms. LaChance was extended out the offer to apply for Florida Medicaid. Ms. LaChance is a very prideful woman who is concerned about other patients who are worse than her, so she politely declined Medicaid assistance stating that she was going to give it her best effort to continue to work even if it meant only working part time. Ms. LaChance receives weekly chemotherapy and the cost of her therapy treatment is exorbitant.…
This worker Naisha Lawrence was able to meet with Dora Morales at her home located at 69 Bloomfield Avenue, Paterson New Jersey. The purpose of the visit was to meet Dora Morales, Manuel Rosado and their son Nathan Rosado for the month of February. Additionally, the worker was to conduct a family team meeting with Ms. Morales and Mr. Rosado supports in order to discuss the family's long term view and what needs to happen in order for the case to move towards termination. Lastly, the worker was to obtain Nathan and Manuel Rosado's social security number in order to complete the request for 4c's funding as well as to run a background check on Mr. Rosado.…
costs of such action so incurred, including, without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees and applicable court costs. Ex. A at § F.3. Additionally, Hospital is entitled to recover its reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees under Chapter 38 of the TEXAS CIVIL DEFENDANTS & REMEDIES CODE.…
Case Q: Whose Hospital? Background of the situation: In June of 1979, the medical staff at Brendan Hospital held a mass meeting at the hospital to discuss various allegations against CEO, Don Wherry. A petition was signed by half the medical staff and by half the employees of the hospital at the mass meeting.…
Patient advocacy does not require nurses to agree, promote, or tolerate any demographic on a personal ideology. What nursing and healthcare does require is professionalism which dictates “[c]ulturally competent nurses…..recognize the harmful effects of ignorance, hate, ethnocentrism, prejudice, and bias on the health of their patients”. (p. 113) Advocating for Lia would necessitate an examination of her social determinates and propagate care that would produce the best patient outcome even if it requires a variance from normal practice.…
Andrew Rider of Insurance Company referred this file for medical case management. Instructions were given to meet with Karen Hartman and assist with coordination of appropriate and related medical care, and identify needs to facilitate recovery. INTERVIEW SETTING On 11/9/16 I met Ms. Hartman at the office of Dr. McPherson. Ms. Hartman works at this medical office so she was already at work.…
What are two issues of physician reimbursement some are the practice expenses, doctor’s income and the reimbursement rates. The physician reimbursement is what the insurance company paid your physician for his services. Physicians cannot negotiate with the insurance company about the cost. Managed care organizations are trying to control the cost of health care but it’s not working.…
Physician Manipulation of Reimbursement Rules for Patients Between a Rock and a Hard Place Matthew Wynia, Deborah Cummins, Jonathan Van Geest, Ira Wilson American Medical Association Synopsis and Summary A study was done to determine at what rate physicians manipulate the rules of reimbursement in order for patients to receive services for which they may not otherwise be granted under utilization review rules though the physician may find the service necessary. The 1998 study was a random study that contained a national sample of 1124 physicians who were surveyed through mailings and the response rate was 64%. Three areas of concentration were involved that asked if the physician’s (1) exaggerated the severity…
EDB Medical Center which offers a full range of healthcare services to customers has recently carried out a segmentation exercise which defined four age-based segments of potential Executive Check-Up Package buyers: Young professionals (21-35 years old); Seasoned Professionals (36-50 years old); Pre-Retired (51-60 years old); and Retired (61 and above). If EDB Medical Center decides to go along with this age-based segmentation approach, how should they proceed to decide what targeting and positioning approaches to follow with respect to ECU packages. *Which of the following is one characteristic of a perfectly competitive market structure? Justify your answer a. Price is determined primarily by the decisions of a few large suppliers b. The…
Please answer the question in 350 words or less. Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? What factors will be most important to you in choosing a medical school? University of Virginia’s reputation as a forerunner in medical education and research with values such as excellence and leadership make it an ideal match for an engaged, driven student like myself.…
1. There are two main types of third party payers: private insures and public programs. Private payers sell insurance as a product in order to invest into health benefits, where the provider gets paid for the delivered healthcare service. Commercial insurers, Bleu Cross Blue Shield and self-insures are the main private insures in the country. BCBS is a set of independent companies that are required to follow the rules of the main nationwide association in order to be part of it.…
3801NRS Advanced Clinical Decision Making Student Name: Rebekah Stanley Student Number: S2929435 Essay/Report Title: Case Study Essay Assessment Item 1 WORD COUNT: TBA Clinical decision making and reasoning can be seen as one of the most important roles taken on board by the registered nurse within the healthcare setting (Pinnock & Welch, 2014).…
If MedTech could create a compensation plan that allowed for an optional compensation plan for the sales representatives to choose this could solve some of the issues MedTec is currently having with their sales force team. If I was Harold I would introduce three different compensation plans for the sales force representatives to choose from the compensation plans would be offered as followed: compensation plan A- one-hundred percent commission, this would be the current commission plan in place no changes, compensation plan B would be a combination of salary and small percentage offered from the commission of the sale, and finally commission plan C would offer a salary with no percentage of commission sales. I would also incorporate an incentive…
Doctor’s Hospital is an acute care facility in a small town. Due to a major financial disruption they had to transform their organization’s governing structure. As a result, they did not consider the impact of CIO in IT and they turn CIO’s full-time job into a part-time job. Therefore, Doctor’s Hospital faces many information system challenges. Along with that hospital is undergoing 3 phase construction.…