Describe how Medicare impacts the lack of price transparency and quality today.
Ans) Under the hospital price transparency rule, hospitals must publish their standard charges online in a machine-readable format.
- HospitalsHospitals have argued that making them disclose negotiated prices will increase healthcare costs by allowing insurers to collude to fix prices, a claim that many economists dispute.
- Price transparency absent corresponding quality and out-of-pocket-cost data may lead to poor health care choices and higher costs, without improvements in the care provided.
Describe how Medicare impacts the lack of price transparency and quality today.
Differentiate between Medicare and Medicaid roles in the healthcare system, and detail how each agency impacts costs, quality, and access in the delivery of medical care in America. Which program is doing a better job balancing these issues, and why?
Explain how making something illegal (like sex, booze or drugs) impacts the quality, quantity and price of the illegal substance or activity. In addition, are there any unintended consequences of making drugs illegal that can cause harm to people? Why would anyone want to interfere with transactions between two willing people each of whom gain from trading in booze, or drugs or sex?
How might the drug-price transparency bill impact your community?
Discuss how nursing impacts, and is impacted by, the quality and safety agenda emphasized in the ACA
What is the condition of the river today? What impacts are affecting the river and how has it changed?
Define: 1. What is Medicare Advantage? 2. What is a benefit period for Medicare? 3. Describe the 80/20 co-payment for Medicare and Medicare Advantage? 4. What is the Plan of Correction? 5. What is a deficiency? 6. What is Nursing Home Compare? 7. Describe the role of the Ombudsman? 8. Define Resident Rights? 9. What are the three therapy categories? 10. Describe Quality of Care?
Define disease management (DM) programs. Describe the impacts of DM programs on healthcare quality and cost. Identify challenges in DM programs. Examine a successful DM program from real life and address (a) What is its accreditation status? (b) Why is this program successful? and (c) Can it be replicated in other settings?
Describe how crime impacts the economy on a national and international scale. Discuss both the challenges and advantages of measuring the impacts of crime.
ek7 Nature/Nurture and Development cussion How does the effects of (or lack of) a quality education affect an individual's development? Share your thoughts regarding the potential short-term effects and long-term effects of one of the following: Lack of a quality education Having a quality education . . Focus your response in relation to the nature/nurture controversy. Please cite information from the textbook to support your stance. Response Posts: In your responses to your classmates, contribute to the discussion with your...
Nature/Nurture and Development sion How does the effects of (or lack of) a quality education affect an individual's development? Share your thoughts regarding the potential short-term effects and long-term effects of one of the following . Lack of a quality education . Having a quality education Focus your response in relation to the nature/nurture controversy. Please cite information from the textbook to support your stance Response Posts: In your responses to your classmates, contribute to the discussion with your own...