Evolution of Managed Care HCS/235 Evolution of Managed Care Managed care is a type of system that was formed to help control the costs and quality to health care services; this will give access to services to specific groups of covered patients. The system was created to help the patients (customers) to receive services without having the full financial burden (University of Washington‚ 1998). The managed care services’ goal is to be able to help individuals and their families by providing
Premium Health care Managed care Preferred provider organization
Aquatic Invasive Species Two thirds of the forty freshwater fish extinctions are known to have been caused by invasive species. The extinctions could have been caused by any one of the four thousand three hundred known invasive species in the United States. In Minnesota‚ the land of ten thousand lakes‚ thirty-five percent of all recreational waters are known to hold at least one invasive species (Invasive species of aquatic plants and wild animals in Minnesota: Annual report). The common carp‚ zebra
Premium Fish Water Ocean
Ecosystems Components - Lake Xochimilco Mexico Daniel Wal SCI/256 October 22‚ 2012 Kari Ruder Ecosystems Components - Lake Xochimilco Mexico Lake Xochimilco (soh-chee-milkoh) is one in a series of lakes south of Mexico City. What makes this lake unique and interesting is it is the only natural home to one of the most interesting creatures in science‚ the Ambystoma mexicanum‚ or Mexican Axolotl – the smiling faced water salamander pictured below. The axolotl is endangered because of loss
Premium Water Biodiversity Invasive species
A self-managed team is a group of employees that ’s responsible and accountable for all or most aspects of producing a product or delivering a service. Self-managing work team effectiveness is defined as both high performance and employee quality of work life Traditional organizational structures assign tasks to employees depending on their specialist skills or the functional department within which they work. To get work done‚ many companies organize employees into self-managing teams that are basically
Premium Team Management The A-Team
Essay on Vendor Managed Inventories Date of submitting: 30th of October 2012 Length of essay: Not more than 10 pages. So you may use a bit more space‚ as compared to Assignment 1. You can write either alone or together with ONE other student Write an essay on Vendor Managed Inventories (VMI). Remember to enclose a list of references that you have used. Remember to write your name(s) and student number (s) on a front page saying: Essay on the VMI. Vendor Managed Inventories LOG 711 Supply
Premium Supply chain management Inventory Supply chain management terms
Freshwater Aquatic Ecosystem La Monica Austin University of Phoenix Science/256 Elena Gallagher June 2‚ 2011 Humans confiscate most of all the freshwater in the world. Increasing demands from agriculture‚ industry‚ and an expanding population have resulted in important habitats across the world left to deteriorate. “On March 20‚ 2000‚ a crowd of monkeys‚ driven mad from thirst‚ came into conflict with desperate villagers over drinking water in a small station located in a sparse population
Premium Water Ecosystem Aquatic ecology
forests include dense rainforests‚ where rainfall is abundant year-round; seasonally moist forests‚ where rainfall is abundant‚ but seasonal; and drier‚ more open woodlands. Tropical forests of all varieties are disappearing rapidly as humans clear the natural landscape for construction‚ to build roads and urban areas and make room farms and pastures (Lindsey‚ 2007). Although deforestation meets some of the human needs‚ it also has profound‚ sometimes devastating‚ consequences‚ including extinction of flora
Premium Carbon dioxide
750-word paper on natural resources and energy. Include the following: Choose a specific ecosystem‚ such as a forest‚ grassland‚ or a marine or freshwater aquatic ecosystem. Identify impacts associated with agriculture. Identify and discuss the effects that a growing human population may have on that ecosystem’s resources‚ including loss or harm to populations of wild species. Discuss one management practice for sustainability and conservation of natural resources in that ecosystem. Identify
Premium Forestry Sustainability Sustainable development
The introduction of managed care in the US health care delivery system has impacted both patients‚ physicians and providers from an economic stand point. This health care system has undergone changes while continuing to evolve because providers set criteria to monitor the type and quality of care patients receive. From a patients perspective‚ managed care helps control costs when a client contracts a particular provider at a reduced rate. According to a Michigan Family Review by Conklin (2002)‚ “debate
Premium Health care Medicine Health insurance
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed into law on the 28th December 1973. It was enforced by the United States of America to protect critically jeopardized species from extinction‚ from a consequence of development and economic growth and the conservation of the environment they depend on. There are two main federal agencies that are administered to the act: the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A species is considered
Premium Endangered species