Providers in the healthcare sector have three major factors that impact their revenue flow for business (Cleverley‚ Cleverley‚ & Song‚ 2012). The stability of revenue flow is affected by price setting‚ payer contract negotiations‚ and management of billing and coding practices. Price setting is the process that providers undergo to determine the prices they will charge for the services that they provide. Many payers will reimburse the provider for services based on negotiated contracts with the
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What was the economic rationale for the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact (SPG) when the single currency was launched? To what extent is the SGP now redundant? The Maastricht Treaty of the European Union signed in 1992‚ established a set of convergence criteria which had to be met by each Member State before it could adopt the Euro. This was to ensure that economic development within the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is balanced so that all Member States joining the Euro entered
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and market share‚ and also something very important‚ which is to develop brand loyalty (for example‚ once I began to buy "Sony" electro domestics‚ I begin to have a brand loyalty‚ as I never had a single problem with them). 2) The causes of price stability (when prices are stable‚ without any change) existing in a situation of Oligopoly are two. The first reason is due to the shapes of the Demand curve (AR). Putting an example of gasoline stations‚ if there are three
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time‚ backups are taken appropriately and sme’s are available to help many users. It doesn’t include any development of the ERP system during this phase. 4. Why is knowledge transfer important to the long-term stability of the ERP system? Knowledge transfer is important to long term stability because it helps to reduce many problems associated with moving from implementation to production. As the teams are likely to change in different phases‚ especially in the Go-Live and Stabilization phases‚ a
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40E 80E 120E 120N TERTIARY COMPUTER MODELING OF SLOPE STABILITY IN MINING THE TAR SAND OF DAHOMEY BASIN‚ SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA David Afolayan ALAO and Mopa BASSAGI DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL SCIENCES‚ UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN P.M.B. 1515‚ ILORIN‚ KWARA STATE‚ NIGERIA Abstract The need to have stable slopes in open pit mining of the tar sand deposit of the Dahomey Basin‚ Southwestern Nigeria is emphasized in this study. In the Loda village‚ Southwestern Nigeria‚ samples of the lateritic
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Assess the view that the main function of religious belief is to promote social stability. (33 Marks) PLAN INTRO: * Define Religion: sociologists struggle to define religion – Substantive definition (Max Weber) defines religion as a belief in a god or supernatural power‚ however this excludes Buddhism - Functional definition (Emile Durkheim) defines religion as performing social or psychological functions of social integration‚ however this definition also applies to football fans. PARA 1:
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To What Extent Can The Years 1924-1929 Be Described as a Period of Recovery and Stability in Germany? By mid-1923 the German economy was in ruins and the Weimar Republic was close to collapse. However a number of changes in economic policy led to economic recovery from 1924 onwards. Much of the credit for the transformation must go to Gustav Stresemann. Stresemann‚ who was a more skilful politician than Ebert became chancellor in August 1923. Although he was only Chancellor for a few months he
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RETHINKING HEGEMONIC STABILITY THEORY: SOME REFLECTIONS FROM THE REGIONAL INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD Petropoulos Sotirios1 First Draft 1 Phd Candidate at Harokopion University‚ department of Geography‚ Researcher at the Institute of International Economic Relations The paper examines the ability of the hegemonic stability theory to interpret the creation and development of regional integration schemes in the developing world. More specifically‚ this paper aims at
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What were the more significant threats to the stability and survival of the Weimar Republic in the years 1919 – 1923? The right wing of German politics in the early to mid-20th century contained mainly industrialists and white collar workers‚ who mostly all had instinctive ambitions for a return to a more autocratic German state as oppose to the newly formed Weimar Republic‚ for whom they had a particularly ambivalent attitude. The left wing was also almost entirely committed to class struggle
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Explore Yahuda’s argument that increasing economic interdependence between China and Japan does not necessarily spell stability in the relationship. Through critical analysis of Yahuda’s article‚ exploring the complex and paradoxical relationship of both China and Japan’s economic and political ties; there is an abundance of evidence suggesting the increasing economic relations between the two countries‚ whilst simultaneously addressing the declination of political ties. Factually‚ Yahuda’s article
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