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Explain the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) reimbursement methodologies and determine when they are used.

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Career Connect Essay

• Explain compliance with regulatory requirements and reimbursement methodologies.

You are a lead coder at Bryant City Hospital and have been asked by your manager to prepare an essay to be included in the training manuals for incoming employees to the HIM department. This essay must educate new employees about The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulatory requirements and the different types of reimbursement methologies used in various settings of care. Your essay should be at least 500 words, thoroughly address each prompt, be free of grammar and spelling errors, use complete sentences and be organized in manner that makes sence to new employees. Rescources from your course material (already in APA format) should be used as supporting evidence. All resources used should be listed on the reference page.

Your manager would like you to identify the following items in your essay:

• Identify and explain in detail the False Claims Act and it’s impact on Medicare and Medicaid programs.

• Define fraud and abuse. Describe why it is important to follow CMS regulatory requirements to avoid fraud or abuse in billing and coding practices? Justify your answer.

• Explain the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) reimbursement methodologies and determine when they are used. Explain the four reimbursement methodologies used in each of the settings of care below:
o Inpatient Acute Care Hospital
o Skilled Nursing Faciltiy
o Outpatient Facility
o Physician Office

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?

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

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is undergoing sweeping changes to confront the institution’s principal challenges, primarily due to appropriation divestiture cuts and the emergence of new global threats. The USMC Force Design 2030 policy seeks to modernize organizational culture within the Corps, divest in outdated warfare equipment, upgrade its technological inventory, and improve the quality of its human capital. The objective is to move towards becoming a light and lethal war organization, with a broader range of force options and capabilities to ultimately create the virtues of mass without the vulnerabilities of being cumbersome (Williams 2020).

As currently constructed, USMC doctrine relies heavily upon expeditionary maneuver warfare, large-scale amphibious forcible entry, and sustained operations ashore (Augier & Barrett, 2020). This concept of operations presents healthcare delivery challenges due to the distances combatants travel from staged facilities with capabilities to lower Marine combat mortality. To overcome such obstacles, the U.S. Navy (USN) and USMC have developed highly mobile medical teams capable of bringing advanced medical and surgical care to the forward areas of the battlefield. Fleet Marine Force (FMF) U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman (HM) assigned to USMC battalions are purchased manpower commodities that deliver emergency medical intervention at the point of attack. Fleet Marine Force (FMF) HMs are front-line lifesavers and care extenders for Marine Infantryman and women. A highly accomplished and decorated enlisted rating within the U.S. Navy, FMF HMs attend an 8-week course, a mixture of classroom and field training, and field medicine using the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) (Kotwal et al., 2013). Despite the clinical and didactic education HMs are given to prepare for assignment with the operational forces, they are not trained Riflemen, nor are they permanently assigned to USMC billets throughout their Navy career.

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?

3. Research questions: 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 is the gendered/sexual background of the characters and actors who play them? Which characters are central to the narrative plot and how is white gender/sexuality figured to be relevant or irrelevant?

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Rhetorical Analysis Paper:

Find an example/text of media (book, show, movie, play, advertisement) and perform an analysis on how gender/sexuality in white supremacy are treated in the text. Consider (not exclusively) these questions: What is the gendered/sexual background of the characters and actors who play them? Which characters are central to the narrative plot and how is white gender/sexuality figured to be relevant or irrelevant? How does gender/sexuality guide decision-making and the values of the colonized/colonial community? In what ways does2
white colonial power structures favor or challenge heteronormativity? How does the status quo of white heteronormativity remain unquestioned? Be sure to cite and relate your analysis to 4 different assigned readings from our class and 1 journal article that also analyzes the text.

Who is the article about? Who wrote it? Where/When was it written? Source. What is the article about? Most important points? Why was the article written?

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Personal Support Workers in the News


In class on WEEK 4, you are responsible for reporting on a news story pertinent to your career path: Personal Support Work. Use the following steps to complete the assignment:

Step 1: Find and read/watch/listen to a news item from no earlier than 2018.

Step 2: Compose a 1.5 to 2 page summary report detailing the following:
● Who is the article about? Who wrote it?
● Where/When was it written? Source.
● What is the article about? Most important points?
● Why was the article written? Your opinion.
● How does it relate to Personal Support Work?

Step 3: Create an APA cover page and a Reference page which will use APA formatting to cite your source. There will be a lesson on this.

Step 4: Sign up for a presentation time and article on the Google form.

Step 5: Present the information to the class in a 2-3 minute presentation that reiterates the points in Step 2.

Step 6: Hand your paper in through BRIGHTSPACE by Friday, October 8 at midnight. You do not have to submit presentation materials.

Indicate what information should be collected to track and evaluate the effectiveness of your recommendations. How can this data be collected?

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Statistical Report

Pastas R Us, Inc. is a fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in noodle-based dishes, soups, and salads. Since its inception, the business development team has favored opening new restaurants in areas (within a 3-mile radius) that satisfy the following demographic conditions:

Median age between 25 – 45 years old
Household median income above national average
At least 15% college educated adult population

Last year, the marketing department rolled out a Loyalty Card strategy to increase sales. Under this program, customers present their Loyalty Card when paying for their orders and receive some free food after making 10 purchases.

The company has collected data from its 74 restaurants to track important variables such as average sales per customer, year-on-year sales growth, sales per sq. ft., Loyalty Card usage as a percentage of sales, and others. A key metric of financial performance in the restaurant industry is annual sales per sq. ft. For example, if a 1200 sq. ft. restaurant recorded $2 million in sales last year, then it sold $1,667 per sq. ft.

Executive management wants to know whether the current expansion criteria can be improved. They want to evaluate the effectiveness of the Loyalty Card marketing strategy and identify feasible, actionable opportunities for improvement. As a member of the analytics department, you’ve been assigned the responsibility of conducting a thorough statistical analysis of the company’s available database to answer executive management’s questions.

Report:

Write a 750-word statistical report that includes the following sections:

Section 1: Scope and descriptive statistics
Section 2: Analysis
Section 3: Recommendations and Implementation

Section 1 – Scope and descriptive statistics

State the report’s objective.
Discuss the nature of the current database. What variables were analyzed?
Summarize your descriptive statistics findings from Excel. Use a table and insert appropriate graphs.

Section 2 – Analysis

Using Excel, create scatter plots and display the regression equations for the following pairs of variables:
“BachDeg%” versus “Sales/SqFt”
“MedIncome” versus “Sales/SqFt”
“MedAge” versus “Sales/SqFt”
“LoyaltyCard(%)” versus “SalesGrowth(%)”
In your report, include the scatter plots. For each scatter plot, designate the type of relationship observed (increasing/positive, decreasing/negative, or no relationship) and determine what you can conclude from these relationships.

 

Section 3: Recommendations and implementation

Based on your findings above, assess which expansion criteria seem to be more effective. Could any expansion criterion be changed or eliminated? If so, which one and why?
Based on your findings above, does it appear as if the Loyalty Card is positively correlated with sales growth? Would you recommend changing this marketing strategy?
Based on your previous findings, recommend marketing positioning that targets a specific demographic. (Hint: Are younger people patronizing the restaurants more than older people?)
Indicate what information should be collected to track and evaluate the effectiveness of your recommendations. How can this data be collected? (Hint: Would you use survey/samples or census?)

 

Identify an appropriate study that fits the above criteria, familiarize yourself with the findings or argument, and ultimately summarize that argument in a way that is understandable and compelling for a college-educated reader interested in the subject.

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Academic Research Blog Post 2

For this assignment, you are to summarize, and interpret the significance of, an argument or result of a study presented in an academic or scholarly publication (ie. academic book, peer-reviewed journal article, or think-tank report). To do so, you will first need to identify an appropriate study that fits the above criteria, familiarize yourself with the findings or argument, and ultimately summarize that argument in a way that is understandable and compelling for a college-educated reader interested in the subject (but not necessarily for a political science major). Note that this only requires you to read and report on a single study, but most studies will also provide a brief literature review that presents where the research fits within the existing literature and why it is important.

Below are links to two examples to give you an idea of what this would look like. (They are a bit more than I would expect. But aim high!):

A Vox Blog on Polarization and Social Media: (Links to an external site.)

A JSTOR Daily report on a normative argument for Open Borders: (Links to an external site.)

Is she a tough, resourceful person who nhas not only survived but also built a good life for herself with independence and even a certain amount of power despite difficult odds?

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Love and Empowerment in Memoirs of a Geisha

In Memoirs of a Geisha, is Sayuri the victim of a cruel and repressive system that is disempowering where a woman can only survive by submitting to men, Or is she a tough, resourceful person who nhas not only survived but also built a good life for herself with independence and even a certain amount of power despite difficult odds?

Do you believe the decision/action/resolution was ethical? Explain the decision-making process. How did the readings help you think about the situation from a new or deeper perspective?

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Ethical Decision Making

College life brings with it a new set of opportunities and challenges. You have entered a community of peers; some of you are living away from home without the everyday guidance and support of parents, family and friends. You are encountering a degree of diversity in everyday living to which you are probably not accustomed. And academically, expectations have changed dramatically. College faculty do not see themselves as disciplinarians and there are no school principals monitoring your activities and attendance. You are on your own, managing your time, negotiating choices and relationships, and dealing with a more complicated set of academic expectations and responsibilities. In every setting – dorm, classroom, college activities and work – you must balance your needs with obligations to yourself and to others. And this means that you are involved in ethical decision making.

In a 4-5 page essay, discuss a real situation you have encountered this semester which had an ethical component or dimension – that is, where you had to negotiate your own interests, values and needs within the context of the needs and/or expectations of others. You can use an example taken from your own experience, current events, the readings or class discussion. Do you believe the decision/action/resolution was ethical? Explain the decision-making process. Be sure to analyze your example within the context of the differing approaches to ethics discussed in Mill, Kant and Gilligan. How did the readings help you think about the situation from a new or deeper perspective?

From these facts, was Tito acting within his legal rights? Why or why not? What, if anything, should the police officer do? Explain

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Field Interviews, Arrests, and Jail

Tito and Tina are walking back to their apartments shortly before midnight on a Thursday after getting the weekend (well, a college-style weekend) started at a local bar. A police officer stops them and asks them to present identification. Tina presents her driver’s license but Tito refuses to do so.
• From these facts, was Tito acting within his legal rights?
• Why or why not?
• What, if anything, should the police officer do?
• Explain.

Explain what happened at Milvian Bridge? What did Emperor Constantine do? How did his decision change the course of the Romans, and perhaps the world?

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Milvian Bridge Response

In 300 words, Explain what happened at Milvian Bridge? What did Emperor Constantine do? How did his decision change the course of the Romans, and perhaps the world?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/battle-milvian-bridge