Basis point

Up to this point in time, much of a Value Based Purchasing has been focused on inpatient care. While the overall goal is to improve health care delivered to patients in all aspects of care, much of the focus has been on hospitals as the driving force. Physicians have been evaluated on an outpatient basis and data has reported. Much of his data looks that EMR meaningful use. Future plans for MIPS and MACRO will begin to tie reimbursement to some of these measures. Hospitals have been delegated…

The concept of amusement has been used as the basis of popular culture as a source of entertainment with its goal of amusing it’s audience but in recent societies has revolutionized and in a response, been critiqued with looking into the inner workings of Disneyland and overall critique of amusement with “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” Entertainment has multiple sources such as music, film, television and amusement parks are the basis for popular culture that are primarily seen through media,…

The Weight Watchers point book simply puts together all the point values for every type of food that is allowed in the Weight Watchers diet program. The point value of each food is based on its calories, fat, and fiber. The book allows you to easily compute how much food you consumed for the day by just adding up the points. Quick, simple, foolproof. Pre-computed points The book also gives you the number of points you need to take in everyday. That is based on the results of a quiz you take…

made that when demand curve is steeper, the consumer burden will increase. Q2 (d) Allocative efficiency is a state of the economy in which production represents consumer preferences. The following diagram will show the allocative efficiency. On the basis of this diagram, when demand curve is vertical which is to say that when the price elasticity of elastic is perfectly inelastic, there is no deadweight loss and l assume that the tax=$0.5. From the diagram, the total surplus is maximizing and…

the effect of sleep on schoolwork. To start off my reasons, the age of students affects how much sleep they get on a normal basis. From the…

(1990) wrote, “The capacity for guilt is innate and universal; [only] its modes of expression are learned” (p. 232). Thus, some consideration of this innate capacity is a necessary point of departure for guilt theory. Clearly, guilt means feeling bad, and so the capacity for guilt presumably begins with a natural basis for feeling bad. Guilt must be understood as an unpleasant arousal akin to anxiety (Tennen & Herzberger, 1987). We propose two sources: empathic arousal and anxiety over social…

same observations. The debate wasn’t about the observations. The debate was about the best starting point for interpreting the observations. Bill Nye has a starting point for thinking based on assumptions. Ken Ham uses the Bible through which God reveals Himself and the history of the world. The central question of the Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate is clear. The Central Question: What’s the real basis for thought? Thought always has a foundation, but sometimes that foundation is untrustworthy.…

thinking from Thales to Anaximander has very different ideas in their premises about the “One.” The “One,” in accordance to Thales is “Water,” and Anaximander defines it as “Boundless.” These two philosophers are regarded as the first men to question the basis of all things. In this essay I will examine Thales and Anaximander in-order-to compare and contrast their ideas of the “One.” I will first share some of the imperative differences between the two philosophers. These ideas include, the…

earnings before interest, taxes and amortization (EBITA) at €310.7m – up from €245.0m in 2014. Adjusted earnings per share was 79.14c. Similarly, trading profit at Kerry Group plc in 2015 increased by 10% to €700m, while sales revenue on a reported basis increased by 6.1% to €6.1 billion. Kerry also announced earlier this week that business volumes progressively improved during 2015, delivering 3.8% year-on-year growth. “I think you can see from the share price reactions that both results have…

improvement? Primarily, the increase was due to higher merchandise margins. However, this increase was offset 37 basis points because of higher supply chain costs associated with current year inventory initiatives (AutoZone, 2016). Additionally, operating expense reflected an increase due to higher payroll of 21 basis points and the impact of their integrated marketing program of 16 basis points (AutoZone, 2016). One area that AutoZone has been passionate about is providing their…