Emergency room over utilization is one of the leading causes of today’s ever increasing healthcare costs. The majority of the patients seen in emergency rooms across the nation are Medicaid recipients‚ for non-emergent reasons. The federal government initiated Medicaid Managed Care programs to offer better healthcare delivery‚ adequately compensate providers and reduce healthcare costs. Has Medicaid Managed Care addressed the issues and solved the problem? The answer is ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Throughout
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The organizational weaknesses at Apria Healthcare are under trained service representatives along with failing sales and loss of business. By implementing cross training as well as ongoing customer service training‚ it would eliminate costly mistakes as well as cut down on the high turnover rate of customer service agents. It would eliminate new agents from feeling inadequate and help seasoned officers at implementing new services or products. Cross-trained employees are hardworking‚ capable
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HA255 Human Resource for Healthcare Organizations Unit 7 Assignment Kaplan University By Cherie Nelson Competencies within the human resource of the healthcare field are referenced as a set of observable strategies that include performances such as individual skills‚ knowledge‚ behaviors and attitudes of a team and an organizational that are connected through high performance‚ and provide the organization with a competitive advantage. Individual skills of capability of the staff can
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consider? Some uncontrollable environment factors to consider in this market would be Economical‚ Social‚ and Rivaling Competitors. 5. A major concern for many health care professionals is the belief that marketing “creates” needs. Explain the complexity of this issue. Marketing in healthcare does not create needs. A “need” is defined as a “condition in which there is a deficiency of something”. In the above orthopedic group practice‚ they realized that there was a need/want for a pediatric sports
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Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Introduction JCAHO is an abbreviation for Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is a non-for-profit organization that seeks to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations. It is an organization made up of individuals from the private medical sector
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importance of professional conduct within a healthcare environment. In the healthcare industry‚ administrators play an important role to the success of professional care. The position of a Healthcare administrator requires‚ the competencies related to professional practices‚ structural‚ and cultural conditions (Begun‚ Mosser & White‚ 2011). These methods are the declaration to the execution of policies and practices that are consistent with mission and vision of the organization. According to the Division
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Phoenix Within the Healthcare continuum‚ there are different types of careers. We can have providers‚ researchers‚ administrators‚ and other. Among the providers nursing is a field that can be listed. Midwifery is a part of nursing. In the following lines‚ we will describe the midwifery career; identify the workforce roles within two services and finally explore the impact of the midwifery on the Healthcare organization. World Health organization (nd) makes clearly that “Midwifery
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REGULATIONS‚ & INITIATIVES The present environments for healthcare organizations contain many forces demanding unprecedented levels of change. These forces include changing demographics‚ increased customer outlook‚ increased competition‚ and strengthen governmental pressure. Meeting these challenges will require healthcare organizations to go through fundamental changes and to continuously inquire about new behavior to produce future value. Healthcare is an information-intensive process. Pressures for
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Marketing is concept that helps determine the success of an organizational mission. Essentials of Health Care Marketing (2006) define marketing as‚ the execution of the conception‚ pricing‚ promotion‚ and distribution of the goods‚ ideas and services. The author‚ Berkowitz (2006) goes on to say‚ “in order to respond to customers‚ an organization must develop a product‚ determine the price customers are willing to pay‚ identify what place is most convenient for the customers to purchase the product
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strategies that were discussed in John Jones’s article‚ as a PBM (Pharmaceutical Benefit Manager) I would most likely recommend going with the strategy of Utilization Management because there are so many ways you can allow or not allow things to be in your power. And by being able to reduce unnecessary prescriptions to be filled by employees could help save a lot of money for the employer. Another reason this could help is by allowing the access to quality drug medications by the 5 R’s which are‚ “The
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