1. Question : (TCO 4) Your hospital has just been told that all of your cardiovascular surgeons are transferring their practice to a competitive hospital beginning next year. How would this affect a forecast of volume? Student Answer: First and foremost, if a hospital is suddenly lost all of its cardiovascular surgeons...heads will roll. However, if there are a major lost of service such as the cardiovascular surgeon...there will be a decrease in the volume due to the lost of services. Thus
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fixed payment payers comprise eighty percent (80%) of the firms revenue? Increase volume on payers that leads to gain profit Homework Assignment Chapter 4 1- How could a hospital avoid being covered by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act? Identify and describe the key elements of the plan. * Review and understand the EMTALA requirements * Ensure that all patients who leave the hospital without receiving treatment are offered a medical examination * Reasonable
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given ventilatory support.Although the hospital attempted to resistthese The court deterst provide the services. the courts held that they admissions, mined that to refuse care to the infant would be in violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal statuteconcerning the child abuse, Americans with DisabilitiesAct (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act of 7973, end parental decision-making rights as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. 1. How would
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Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) brings a myriad of changes to the healthcare system and hospitals must adapt accordingly or face dire financial challenges. Some of the financial challenges will originate from the influx of Medicaid patients due to the Medicaid expansion. Based on these changes, there is an increased tendency for hospitals to engineer ways to reduce costs such as patient selection and staff reduction. However, for a hospital to participate in Medicare, which accounts for
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understanding of the guidelines as well as the workflow of the record. For one week I followed the flow of a medical record by training with each team that handles the medical record. Regulations According to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), rotary and fixed wing air ambulance services are covered when a patient is transported to the closest appropriate facility that is inaccessible by ground, great distances, or obstructed by obstacles such as heavy traffic. The
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Financial Laws and Regulations Tayyaba Baig Devry Fresno HSM 340 July 14, 2013 Ms. Mary Financial Laws and Regulations 1. What are five elements pertaining to the establishment of a false claim under the False Claims Act? According to our text, the five elements pertaining to the establishment of a false claim under the False Claims Act are the government should establish the claim was false and submitted knowingly, government must establish that the person submitted the claim
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When the first time I have heard about the 1000 dead birds falls from the sky in Arkansas, I did not believe it at first. Then once I got home, I went on the internet to do a bit of researching because this mystery was somehow interesting to me. After reading few of the articles, I found out that it is because of the loud noise that causes the mass death of these birds. I think that they should cover this issue quickly because if many more birds are going to die again, it would mess up the nature’s
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The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) was an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska[clarification needed], and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),[1] designed and built by BAE Advanced Technologies (BAEAT). Its purpose was to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance.[2] The HAARP program
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Association, 57(6), 26-28. Harman, L. (2005). HIPAA: A few years later. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 10(2), Jost, T. S. (2009). Health care reform requires law reform. Health Affairs 28(5), 1. EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) is also known as the “antidumping” law. True/False True 2. Under EMTALA, the hospital can obtain a patient’s insurance information: Both A and C are correct 3. Violations of not abiding by
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•Multiple CPU’s (2) •Up to 4GB of Ram •Ability to connect Active Server Directory domains & networks –Can detect when the computer attaches to a new network –Supports all the latest wireless networking standardsWindows XP is a stable and reliable business operating system Main features of Windows XP are: •Supports 32bit NT & Windows 2000 Systems •Multiple CPU’s (2) •Up to 4GB of Ram •Ability to connect Active Server Directory domains & networks –Can detect when the computer attaches
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