Managed care

primary care physician should be the base of their medical needs, and I think this type of environment where the patient is not rushed out of the office, but really listened to is the best on improving continuity of care. Chronically ill patients should benefit from the patient centered medical homes the most, because they need the most coordination of care among providers. According to a study done on the company’s first National patient centered home demonstration, it will require primary care…

type of Medicare Advantage Plan offered by a private insurance company. In a PPO Plan, you pay less if you use doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers that belong to the plan's network. You pay more if you use doctors, hospitals, and providers outside of the network. In Other words, you can get your health care from any doctor, other health care provider, or hospital in PPO Plan. Each plan gives you flexibility to go to doctors, specialists, or hospitals that aren't on the plan's…

delivery of health care. Many organizations have done this because employee performance and productivity relates and defines who and what there organization is all about, but most importantly the organizations profitability. There are numerous ways to motivate employees, but the most rewarding way to motivate employees to enhance their performance, is to suggest a pay-for-performance program. Over the past years we…

are less in number in an organization and expected to donate some of their patient care responsibilities to the available parallel professionals of the same cadre or lower cadre and hence are called Task shift donors. The professionals in the same field but of lower cadre or of belonging to the related area in the same field are called Task shift acceptors. To make task shifting successful, by providing optimum care to the patients, both donor and acceptor should agree and work online in the…

Michigan Health System is one of the largest health care facilities in the world. The facility is also referred to as the University of Michigan Hospital. It is one of the largest hospitals in the state of Michigan, as well as a premier academic medical center. Michigan Health System has a vision of creating the future of health care through discovery, as well as to become the national leader in care, education, biomedical innovation, and health care reform (Regents, 2015). An important aspect…

programs, (2) accountable care organizations, and (3) bundled payment programs. The U.S. Bureau of Health and Human Services is propelling the implementation of VBP over a variety of health care settings in the Medicare program in light of prerequisites in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. And policymakers…

common anecdotes of individuals not being able to afford the care the need. Left and right we are presented with frustration from these individuals about the system, even those who had quality health care were plagued with debt and not being able to acquire the treatment they needed. Healthcare is a privilege, not a right of the citizens in this country. In 2012, 80 million Americans said they had skipped or delayed getting needed health care or filling prescriptions because of the cost. More…

Improve Quality of Care-Integrated Delivery Systems Integrated delivery systems aligns themselves with hospitals, and physician based practices to improve cost and quality of care for the Accountable Care Organizations, (ACO). With the evolving of the Affordable Care Act, (ACA), it will have a direct correlation of the delivery of service through hospitals or physician based practices. The ACO feature of integrated delivery systems will ascertain efficient and coordinated quality care.…

They will give little to no proper care to the individuals that do not have health care insurance. Luckily we now have Obama Care, yet we still do not have free universal health care like Canada, England, France and even Cuba. We are ranked number 37 according to World Health Organization’s Ranking of the World’s Health Systems. France is rated number one in the health care systems around the world. When comparing the two America and France. France wins in health care. In America we fear of…

the opportunity to care of patients from the prenatal age to the geriatrics age of life is a gratifying experience in total. Secondly Family medicine gives me the chance to serve the under-served rural and low-income urban population many of whom cannot afford specialized medical care services. Thirdly being a Family physician I would not only be able to diagnose and treat the patients but also play a part in providing preventive care and have a chance in shaping the health care policy reforms…