DM Medical Billings incorporated in October 1997, and has been providing EMS and medical transportation billing for over nineteen years. When DM Medical Billings was established, it was decided to focus our billing efforts solely in the EMS and Medical Transportation industry. This has proven extremely successful for us. By specializing in one industry, we can say, with certainty, that we are more experienced and more knowledgeable in emergency medical billing, than your average third party billing agency. Dina Mueller is the sole principal of DM Medical Billings.…
5. If this is a program that was implemented before, please tell us a success story so we can understand the impact of the program. We previously helped a client by stabilizing her housing and financial status by developing a spending plan to gradually pay down personal loans that she had taken out prior to entering into MMP.…
Once I received the budget, the service plan will be reviewed. Some services may need to be adjusted. For example, home visits by a nurse may need to be scaled down in some area to ensure a more efficient use of this resource. Some positions may not be filled and some staff will be utilized in different positions. Next, the existing programmes and services will be reviewed, so certain service may be altered.…
The purpose of this case policy analysis is to identify the absence of actions that could have been taken by the Department of Social Services and La Alianza that contributed to the outcomes of the children reported in the case study High Stakes and Frightening Lapses. Additionally, the recommended stance of the Commissioner of DSS at the end of the case study will be to implement new contracts with nonprofit agencies while increasing communication between the agencies to prevent additional neglect of the children to occur. The deontological perspective will support the need to provide required services regardless of the situational factors due to a moral obligation. Case Policy Analysis & Recommendation In the analysis of the Department…
Ethics in Long Term Care Administration Introduction The motivation behind the Code of Ethics for Long Term Health Care Administrators is to serve as an aide for individual behavior in the act of the calling. The South Carolina Board of Long Term Health Care Administrators perceives the obligation of the Administrator under the watchful eye of the inhabitants of nursing homes and group private consideration offices (Thomas, Jefferson & Lasserson, 2013). Keeping in mind the end goal to advance the most astounding nature of execution in the act of LTHC Administration, the Board has built up the accompanying basic standards for the direction of the calling.…
We have met with Tracy Jenkins on December 2; Tracy works for Carlin &associate consulting company as a long term care facilities consultant, and Adjunct faculty at Waubonsee Community College. Tracy got her bachelor degree in French and concentration in business from Univ. of Illinois, she graduated from College of Duapage and received the associate degree in health information technologist in 1993 and received RHIT d credential. After 2 years she got the chance to pass the exam to be RHIA. Tracy received her master’s degree from St. Louis University.…
The effect of ACA with reimbursement for service provided in primary care has had to come across changes on the way the payment is process for their services. In the past, the hospital has received waivers from federal to reimbursed expenses that were spent to the uninsured patients without criteria. However, with the new healthcare reform, ACA the reimbursement will be based on the patient outcome and quality of care. “The Medi-Cal 2020 waiver opens the door to innovative changes in the way Medi-Cal provides services to its members, all with the goals of improving efficiency, access and quality of care. ”(Williams, 2015).…
Ensure that you read and understand the Individual Student Assessment Plan (ISAP) that you must acknowledge on DL to assist with your preparation and successful completion of the TAC Certification Course. If you need anything or have issues with the system, please notify me ASAP. IAW the TCC ISAP, you are required to complete an autobiography and an essay. Follow the instructions of the WOC SOP (posted on blackboard) to complete both assignments.…
Residents placed in a long term care facility is a hardship alone on the resident and families. Some families are in need of a little more assistance with their family member. This help may be required for many of the activities of daily living or needs that healthy, active people take for granted and may include such things as walking, bathing, dressing, and using the bathroom. Being a consultant and reviewing the long term care survey which receive several deficiencies notation for noncompliance with federal requirements. The recommendations for overall system evaluation and revision would be to have a written facility policy statement in reference to the cited deficiency, and thoroughly outline the corrective action and meet with the staff…
Care conferences are held for every person receiving health care at home or in a care facility. They help the “care team” ~ everyone involved in the person’s care ~ share information and work together to meet the person’s needs (1). In this case study, I am the LPN who is responsible to organize a care conference for three of the residents in the residential home that I work with. To organize this care conference, it is imperative that I will fully know the goals for each of the resident.…
6.2 Explain the importance of following an individual’s care plan and fully engaging with them when assisting and moving A care plan is a document where day-to-day requirements and preferences for care and support details. Following a care plan helps you to understand and meet the individuals needs and preferences, it helps you to move and assist the individual in the correct way, it allows you to minimize injury to individuals and your self and also ensures you move an individual in a comfortable and supporting way, by using there care plan and discussing with the individual you are allowing active participation for the individual. Outcome 7 Know how to handle hazardous substances 7.1 Identify hazardous substances that may be found in the social care…
The nurse and other care providers play a key role in the prevention of hospital acquired infection (HAI). Urinary tract infection (UTI) accounts is the commonest accounting for 35% of all infections with 80% of them being associated to indwelling urinary catheter (Schneider, M. A. 2012). In this document, the author discusses the process of implementation evidence based change aimed at reducing the incidence of catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). Evidence based practice is a problem- solving approach that incorporate best practice arrived at from reliable studies and patient care outcome best available practice and the consideration of patient choice and values, to attain the highest level of quality of care and client needs…
The first section of the paper will discuss and analyze the WISE program through Analysis Method One: Politics of Policymaking, and the second section of the paper will employ Analysis Method Two: Implementation Analysis. The final portion of the paper will include an Implementation Proposition, relaying the benefits and proposals, for the WISE program to potentially become implemented in the state of New York. Analysis Method One: Politics of Policymaking As a beneficiary of the waiver services, the individual receives a caseworker, often a social worker, to create an individualized person-centered recovery plan. This plan has transitional and rehabilitative goals in which the client, with the help of aides, work to meet.…
Olympic Medical Center has formed a strategic plan to help shape their vision for serving their community. The main key goal areas are quality, patient safety and satisfaction, community relationships, and organizational performance. Regardless of the ability to pay, each person in their community is welcome to receive health care services at Olympic Medical Center. Healthcare is subject to many outside control factors such as governmental regulations and payment systems such as Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance companies.…
Through discussion of what would benefit the patients, developing a community resource guide to navigate services seemed to be an appropriate support and tool that sufficed. After it was developed, it was added to the paperwork patients receive during discharge. Along with other items, patients are given this resource guide and shown how to use the information, as well as clarify what each part of the guide can be used for. This intervention is on the macro level; the macro level of practice has the intention of changing the individual’s environment to better fit the individual (Segal, Gerdes, & Steiner, 2015).…