Category: Healthcare

What is the difference between emergency services and critical care?How do you code when critical care services are provided during an emergency department encounter?

Discussion Board Topic: In this module we learned about outpatient hospital coding.
Discuss the following:

What is the difference between emergency services and critical care? Give examples of each.

How do you code when critical care services are provided during an emergency department encounter?

How do you properly code same day surgeries and observation cases?

Must be 250 words in APA format with two cited sources.

Textbook information:
• Lame, J. & Young, G., A Guided Approach to Intermediate & Advanced Coding,
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nd edition. MyLab Health Professions with Pearson eText — Access Code Card.
ISBN 978-0-135-19079-1

Compare the O’Neill sister’s original plan with the organization’s current activities. Based on your readings, discuss two strengths and two weaknesses of their approach.Propose and explain two or three components that could be added to the O’Neill sisters’ plan that would make it more effective.

Disaster Preparedness and Relief
First watch this TED Talk video

Review their current work at Recovers and post answers to the following questions:

Compare the O’Neill sister’s original plan with the organization’s current activities. Based on your readings, discuss two strengths and two weaknesses of their approach.
Propose and explain two or three components that could be added to the O’Neill sisters’ plan that would make it more effective.
Provide at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed references to support your proposed components. One of these references should be from Corbett and Fikkert’s When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself (2014).

What is the feasibility of developing an enlisted combat medic Primary Military Occupational Specialization (PMOS) within the USMC?What would be the cost consideration in creating a combat medic PMOS expansion?

An exploratory analysis of cost effectiveness and feasibility of developing a Combat Medic Military Occupational Specialization within the United States Marine Corps

With force restructuring taking place, is the status-quo medical support arrangement ideal for the USMC, or would the organization benefit from organically establishing and managing its own enlisted Combat Medic inventory?

Describe the main question or problem you will address, and any secondary or sub-questions you may look into. Justify why this is an important topic to study.

What is the feasibility of developing an enlisted combat medic Primary Military Occupational Specialization (PMOS) within the USMC?

What would be the cost consideration in creating a combat medic PMOS expansion?

Are HMs currently delivering quality healthcare to USMC beneficiaries?

What are the three macroeconomic drivers of national health expenditures?What are the primary healthcare delivery methods that countries have employed, and how do they attempt to influence the factors of production?

Discussion Question 2

1. Health financing systems distribute resources through revenue raising, pooling, and purchasing arrangements. Describe these healthcare financing functions, and give two examples of each for a healthcare system of your choice.

2. Knowledge of the characteristics of the various sources of revenue can help us understand the healthcare financing situation in a particular country. Direct taxes arc one source of revenue collected for health services. List and explain the other sources, and give specific country examples.

3. What are the three macroeconomic drivers of national health expenditures?

4. What are the primary healthcare delivery methods that countries have employed, and how do they attempt to influence the factors of production?

a. Which use demand-side tools?

b. Which use supply-side tools?

5. What role does a nation’s sociocultural foundation play in determining the delivery model and supply-and-demand mechanism used to influence health expenditures?

6. When are individuals likely to participate in voluntary insurance markets? Why?

7. Why do well-functioning insurance markets require the insured population to be risk averse?

8. How do payments to clinicians influence health expenditures?

a. What is the natural provider response in a fcc-for-service environment?

b. What is the natural provider response in a capitated, fixed payment, or diagnosis-related group environment?

c. How have payers attempted to mitigate that impact?

What arc some of the financial pros and cons of the different market entry methods? Does a trade-off exist between the entry strategy and the ability to achieve the organization’s desired mission-related healthcare outcomes?

Discussion Questions

1. What are some of the key factors that healthcare organizations might use to identify a foreign country in which to set up new operations? Consider the question both from a financial perspective and from a mission perspective. What types of financial risks must they assess, and how might they go about managing or mitigating those risks to achieve their organization’s healthcare mission?

2. What arc some of the financial pros and cons of the different market entry methods? Does a trade-off exist between the entry strategy and the ability to achieve the organization’s desired mission-related healthcare outcomes?

3. What would be some of the main reasons that healthcare organizations might choose to seek new investment capital domestically and then move the money abroad? What would be some of the main reasons companies might choose to seek new investment capital within the foreign country where they seek to expand operations?

4. In what ways might you treat cash inflows and outflows differently when assessing a new capital project idea that requires investment in a foreign country, as opposed to a purely domestic investment?

5. How does a healthcare organization balance the long-term interests of entering new markets with the need to ensure the short-term financial viability of those initiatives? Should foreign initiatives be evaluated in isolation (i.e., each on its own merit, like an individual stock) or as part of a collection of projects (i.e., as a component of a larger portfolio)?

Design your own randomized controlled trial using the steps given in Chapter 8 of your textbook. :Discuss ethical issues that can arise in your study design.

Randomized Control Style

This assignment addresses design strategies and ethical issues associated with experimental studies.

Design your own randomized controlled trial using the steps given in Chapter 8 of your textbook.

You can use the example of a drug study in which is it appropriate to use a placebo or you can choose your own topic.

Discuss ethical issues that can arise in your study design.

What did you learn about yourself, about the world, or about public or global health?How will this volunteer activity have an impact on your life-long learning, professional practice, and future work? Would you volunteer again? Explain your answer.

Volunteer Activity Reflection

What did you learn about yourself, about the world, or about public or global health?

What people were you serving?

Identify (or create) a strategic objective and an intermediate indicator for the place you volunteered.

Did you see or experience anything unexpected? Explain in detail.

Was there some specific aspect of your experience that you found especially helpful?

What cross-cultural aspect was present in your volunteer work? Consider the content presented in When Helping Hurts by Corbett & Fikkert when answering this question.

How will this volunteer activity have an impact on your life-long learning, professional practice, and future work?
Would you volunteer again? Explain your answer.

Analyze whether the actions of Dr. S. and Dr. V. violated Stark Law.Explain the legal parameters for patient rights and the role that Dr. S and Dr. V play in protecting those rights.

Analyze whether the actions of Dr. S. and Dr. V. violated Stark Law.

Explain the legal parameters for patient rights and the role that Dr. S and Dr. V play in protecting those rights.

Explain the federal, statutory, or case laws that apply in this scenario.

Provide solid evidence supporting your decision by utilizing information from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library as well as the law itself.
The Stark Law paper

 

Discuss the effects of hospital mergers, consolidations, and expansions on independent practices. Also, include in your discussion how independent practices affect public health.What trends do you see affecting the future of independent practices?

Effects of Change on Independent Practices

As a health leader, use evidence to discuss the effects of hospital mergers, consolidations, and expansions on independent practices. Also, include in your discussion how independent practices affect public health.What trends do you see affecting the future of independent practices?

Include two academic references in your post. Use the current APA style and formatting appropriate to the type of reference you provide.