z Managed care plans for the uninsured Aisha Jones Managed Care and Health Insurance-HEA 205 Professor: Dr. Christine Connolly January 19‚ 2013 Abstract This paper is about an article I read about how managed care plans were created for uninsured patients of New Mexico back in 1997. The University of New Mexico Health science center felt that if they created this managed care plan that it would reduce the use of the emergency room and cost of care for the patients. By utilizing preventive
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Assignment #2 – Self-directed Learning and Assumptions of Andragogy Shannon Goodwin Strayer University Adult Learning Theory EDU 500 Dr. Rollia Oliver October 23‚ 2013 Self-directed Learning and the Assumptions of Andragogy Self-directed Learning 1. What do you think about self-directed learning in what and how we learn? Self-directed learning has been defined as “an informal learning process in which an individual takes responsibility for his/her learning process by identifying their learning needs‚ setting
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Long before it was officially called the HMO‚ managed care can be traced back to as early as the 1920s to the mid-1940s. The first example was the Western Clinic in Tacoma‚ Washington‚ it had its own providers and a variety services for a monthly premium payment of $0.50 per member. That later expanded to 20 other sites in Oregon and Washington. That same year a physician‚ Dr. Shadid‚ in Oklahoma‚ established a health cooperative for farmers in small towns who don’t have access to physicians. More
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with one’s own interests. * According to Roloff (1987)‚ “organizational conflict occurs when members engage in activities that are incompatible with those of colleagues within their network‚ members of other collectivities‚ or unaffiliated individuals who utilize the services or products of the organization” (p. 496). This definition is consistent with the one just presented. Some of the manifestations of conflict behavior are expressing disagreement with the opponent‚ yelling‚ verbal abuse‚
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Managed care is any arrangement in health care in which an organization like HMO or another type of doctor-hospital network or an insurance company acts as intermediate with the individual that is seeking care and the physician. The intention of managed care is to eliminate facilities and services that are no longer needed or useful and also to reduce costs. In managed healthcare their insurance plans are very different from the fee- for-service‚ or FFS‚ insurance plans. In the
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Assess the functionalist view that religion benefits both society as a whole and its individuals (33 marks) For functionalists‚ society is a system of interrelated parts known as institutions‚ such as religion‚ the family and the economy. Each institution performs certain functions- each contributes to maintaining the social system by meeting a need. Society’s most basic need is the need for social order and solidarity so that its members can cooperate. For functionalists‚ what makes order possible
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work life but very little has been talked and explored about the politics itself. The strong capabilities of politics can neither be ignored and nor can be denied. And such greatly impactful things can’t have only one direction to it. They have to benefit and create loss both at the same time. But given a fact that there exist some factors that can directly or indirectly influences politics into a favorable or positive dynamic for organizational growth. FOCUS: This paper revolves around a very deep-rooted
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Reputation‚ and Risk] 1st Ed London R Porter (1980) [Generic Strategies‚ Performance and Risk] Thompson library‚ Stoke Griffin‚ Moorhead (2010) [Organisational Behaviour: managing people and organisations] Tenth edition‚ south western‚ cengage learning J. Kotter (2007) [Leadership and management in organisations] Oxford‚ Elearn Limited Guardian (2008) Tesco mergers and acquisitions (online) available from http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/15/tesco.mergersandacquisition Guardian (2009) Tesco
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used as hangouts for older youth with other interests. Open grass fields are now dog parks. The conditions for street soccer in many countries are less than ideal." 6 Add bicycle unfriendly suburbs‚ the need for permits to use public fields‚ the managed schedules that most children have today and spontaneous play of any kind‚ let alone street soccer is hard to imagine. In spite of all of these obstacles‚ which are solvable‚ there’s another reason why street soccer doesn’t enjoy the same popularity
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1 ECON 331: INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION TOPIC: ANALYSIS OF THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES SUBMITTED BY: Vishakha Agarwal BABE-3 110144 2 INTRODUCTION 1. PRODUCT DIFFERENCIATION “Diversity is the staff of economic life.” The theoretical tool of dealing with diversity is product differentiation. (Rosen.2002). It is an important component of imperfectly competitive strategic interaction. Sometimes‚ producers create physical and psychological differences between goods that are nearly identical
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