COMPARISON HMOS and PPOS PAPER 1 COMPARISON HMOS and PPOS PAPER Eve Birdine-Epps MHA628: Managed Care & Contractual Services Instructor: Gary Hanney December 4‚ 2012 COMPARISON HMOS and PPOS PAPER 2 Introduction The transformation of medical marketplace has major implications between two surging managed care plans. Preferred Provider
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HMO or PPO HMO or PPO The rising costs of medical care in the 1920’s were the start of Americans needing health care insurance. The first type of Health Management Organization (HMO) insurance was a prepaid insurance for the lumber mill workers in Tacoma Washington (Difference and Comparison‚ n.d.). It consisted of the lumber mill and the employees paying each month for insurance in the event they may need health care in the future. This was successful that in 1929 Ross-Loos Medical group
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Logistics Specialist U.S. Navy squadron Supply February 6‚ 2012 Time 1900 What business functions do you perform? Aircraft maintenance supply clerk Which of the telephone technologies or other technologies are used at your company? Fax and Multiple line telephone * Are these technologies effective? Explain why or why not. Yes‚ they are we receive calls all day everyday from suppliers and customers weather it’s for orders or just inventory questions. The fax is also effective because
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and so much data. What to do? The following is not the only effective pathway to solve marketing problems‚ but it is one proven and robust approach. And it is the approach we are learning in class discussions. So it’s a good place to start. Step 1: Paint a Provisional Holistic Picture A. Problem Recognition Marketing is about devising nuanced custom solutions to particular kinds of problems. So‚ early on‚ you need to make a first approximate guess as to what kind of problem you
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TUJEETER ETG. O n August 16‚ 1996‚ Sandy Bloomberg‚ founder and CEO of Tweeter etc.‚ reflected on the recent history of his small‚ upscale New England retailer of consumer electronics. Tweeter had grown from a 13-store chain with $35 million in annual sales in 1991 to a 21-store chain with $82 million in annual sales in 1996. Bloomberg had always attributed part of this growth to Tweeter ’s ’ ’Automatic Price Protection" policy‚ which had been implemented in 1993. Under Automatic Price Protection
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Mapping The Lesson Activities will help you meet these educational goals: • Science Inquiry—You will conduct online research‚ collect information‚ and communicate your findings in written form. • STEM—You will apply scientific tools and knowledge to solve real-world problems in order to grow in your understanding of science as a creative human activity. • 21st Century Skills—You will employ online tools for research and analysis‚ use critical thinking and problem-solving skills‚ and
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There are so many problems with our society’s health care. Everyone wants to find a solution‚ but no one has been able to come up with one yet. Many different things have been tried‚ but none have put a cease to the exorbitant costs‚ which most believe to be the main problem. Out of everything tried‚ the most recent and popular system is known as managed care. Managed care is the most common form of health insurance in the United States‚ and provides more a cost efficient coverage
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critical-thinking skills and effectively communicate your ideas. Directions Please save this document before you begin working on the assignment. Type your answers directly in the document. _________________________________________________________________________ Self-Checked Activities Write a response for each of these activities. At the end of the lesson‚ click the link on the final screen to open the Student Answer Sheet. Use the sample answers to evaluate your own work. 1. Analyzing Editorials
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The managed care delivery model was intended to decrease unneeded health care costs‚ by controlling the level of service along with the type of service that was being provided. This model came in a response to the rocket costs of the unrestricted fee-for-service plans in the 1980s. (PBS.org) Managed care plans are a type of health insurance. There are several ways the managed care model is expressed one particular way is the Health Maintenance Organization or better known as HMO. HMOs have their
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MANAGED CARE Managed health care is a system of health care delivery managed by a company aiming mainly at quality/value cost effective services provided to patients. It has been introduced with an intention to avoid paying for unessential facilities and services directly to physicians. It helps in forming an intermediate between patients and physicians in such a way that health insurance organizations pay the physicians from the premiums paid by patients to insurers for the services provided
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