Reducing Health-Care Costs‚ Case 12-1 1. How should Polson communicate its new health-benefits plan to employees? Communication of the new plan is critical if employees are to accept and commit to a managed health-care plan. Employees must understand the strong financial incentives that are present for staying in the network rather than using the traditional indemnity side of the plan. At the same time‚ details of the new plan must be communicated in such a way that it is clear to employees
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science‚ and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It’s an outrage within an outrage within an outrage”. Peter McWilliams Author and Advocate for Medical Marijuana Medical Marijuana has found its place once again as the medical plant that is recognized for its healing potential and properties. How the Government
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Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and inhaling the smoke (consisting of particle and gaseous phases). (A more broad definition may include simply taking tobacco smoke into the mouth‚ and then releasing it‚ as is done with tobacco pipes and cigars). The practice may have begun as early as 5000-3000 BC. Tobacco was introduced to Eurasia in the late 17th century where it followed common trade routes. The practice encountered criticism from its first import into the Western world onwards
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How much does it cost Noncompliance in Long Term Care cost- Healthcare Industry? In the United States Nursing or long term care facilities provide different levels of care depending upon a person’s needs. Generally‚ people who live in skilled nursing homes need a lot of care while those in residential care facilities do not. Compliance to local‚ state and federal regulations cost facilities thousands of dollars due to the fact that at risk populations have been compromised by poor health conditions
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spite of these needs for mental health care‚ only one in three state prisoners and one in six jail inmates who suffer from mental health problems report having received mental health treatment since admission.” (James and Glaze 2006). It shows that once a mental inmates is in prison‚ are any of the staffs are taking upon themselves to make sure they are taking their medicine; also‚ are the counselor providing any help at all for them. Someone responsibility should be to look out for the inmate to
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have done above is a “full-cost” analysis. This is in contrast to a “direct-cost” analysis that ignores overhead costs. Is full cost the right metric for job profitability and customer profitability? What assumptions are we making about the variability of overhead costs when we do a “full-cost” analysis? By allocating the overhead costs to jobs and customers there is an implicit assumption that these are variable with the cost driver. In reality‚ some of the overhead costs are fixed‚ at least in the
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Contract for Health Care Insurance Costs The new social contract between the health care system and employers‚ patients‚ and the government has given everyone involved some breathing room. They have provided a clearer picture of the costs of health care; however‚ it is evident that there is still work to be done regarding the transparency of complete and exact costs. For example; all hospitals have a price list called the chargemaster that includes nearly 20‚000 health care procedures. The prices
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Plant overhead $122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment
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CHAPTER 6 PRODUCTION EXERCISES 4. A political campaign manager must decide whether to emphasize television advertisements or letters to potential voters in a reelection campaign. Describe the production function for campaign votes. How might information about this function (such as the shape of the isoquants) help the campaign manager to plan strategy? The output of concern to the campaign manager is the number of votes. The production function has two inputs‚ television advertising and
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social ills. What isyour opinion? Support youranswer with examples. Youshould write at least 350 words. [60 marks] 3. Definition • digital products‚ communication device/ application/ service ICT • radio‚ TV‚ mobile phone‚ satellite system‚ Internet‚ computer‚ software • causing troubles or suffering to the society and relations betweensocial ills people • truancy‚ violence‚ erosion of culture‚ drug abuse‚ cyber-relationship 4. OUTLINE agree : ICT is the cause of today’s many social ills addiction
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