Research for Educational Reform 25 Area and Perimeter: "Which is Which and How Do We Know?" Helene Sherman Tammy Randolph University of Missouri - St. Louis Fourth grade students participated in three hands-on lessons designed to foster conceptual understanding of area and perimeter‚ to able to measure them in units and to be able to distinguish them from each other within the same figure. Students worked with a university faculty member and classroom teacher to construct shapes on geoboards
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Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Groups Diagnosis related groups (DRGs) have been around since the early 1980s‚ evolving over the years as a patient classification system. However‚ since October 1st‚ 2007‚ Medicare relies on the Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Group (MS-DRG) system to facilitate payments of services rendered for Medicare inpatients. The Beginning of MS-DRGs In the late 1960s‚ Yale University’s School of Management worked with Public Health to begin design and development of the DRG system
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MS-DRG Miranda Valcourt DeVry University MS-DRG Medicare severity diagnosis-related group or MS-DRG is Medicare refinement to the diagnosis-related group (DRG) classification system‚ which allows for payment to be more closely aligned with resource. The Medicare Severity-DRG (MS-DRG) is the most commonly used DRG system‚ because it governs the ever growing ranks of Medicare patients (Bushnell‚ 2013). MS-DRG has a payment rate called a weight (Casto‚ 2013). Higher weights are associated with
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health care provides skilled nursing and therapy sessions to patient’s homes‚ or nursing homes. Results in this service will be costly to the Medicare Program. 2007 State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) The reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in congress offers an opportunity to assess the legislation in light of recent developments in Medicare and states health coverage reform efforts. Fundamental child health goals can be achieved while still affording
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Kathleen Sibelius announced “nationwide takedown” by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations‚ in eight cities that resulted in charges against 89 individuals‚ which included doctors‚ nurses and other licensed medical professionals‚ for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $223 million in false billings. In Chicago‚ seven individuals were charged‚ including two doctors‚ with a variety of health care fraud schemes. This (sixth) nationwide takedown targeted eight cities:
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Communication Introduction This paper will analyse the method of research to be used with regards to the Lifelong Learning Sector (LLS). It shall look at inclusive learning‚ integrating functional skills into the subject area as well as communication and the possible barriers involved and integrating functional skills (FS) into the subject being taught. When planning to carry out any learning‚ the above headings all interlink with each other; for the purpose of this document‚ I have split them
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IB English Language and Literature SL: Written Task on the Great Gatsby Seungchan Yang Rationale: For part four of my English course‚ I studied the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ by Fitzgerald. It not only depicted the hideous manners originated from the sudden prosperity during the 1920s in America but also Gatsby’s pure love or more precisely the obsession towards Daisy‚ which cruelly led to a rather miserable ending. I decided to write a set of short letter formats from Gatsby to Daisy‚ which
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Selecting the Right Replacement Robert S. Wells‚ Ph.D.‚ PAS Livestock Consultant Develop a Plan 2 Start with the End in sight. Start with the End in sight. When are you going to market the cattle? Sell at Weaning… Replacement Heifers • What Breeds Should you consider? What Breeds Should you consider? – Types – Heterosis – Complementarity effects p y – Marketing goals • What is the Right Cow Type? Wh t i th Ri ht C T ? • What is the Right Bull? What
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Written Assignment (Focus on Learner) Background The learner I have chosen for my focus assignment is a woman of Nepalese origin‚ she is in her early 30’s and she came to this country over 2 years ago as an economic migrant. She lives with her with family in London and is currently studying ESOL a Greenwich Community College. Educational Background The learner I have chosen has a general level of education from her native country‚ having attended nursery‚ primary and secondary schools. In
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Introduction- page 2 Scope of the study-page 2 Focus Question 1 Focus Question 2 Focus Question 3 Introduction What we eat nowadays is heavily affected by social context and what we eat by ourselves and when were with others‚ usually when we eat with others we head out to the town to find a restaurant or bar. But if we were to compare what it would be like going out and eating today with what it was like 15-30 years ago it would be very different. This change has been affected by other cultures
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