HealthPartners was founded in 1957 and is the largest consumer-governed, non-profit health care organization in the nation. With its mission of improving the health of its members, patients and the community it offers a full range of services. As a health plan it serves more than 1.4 million medical and dental members nationwide and is the top-ranked commercial plan in Minnesota. The care system as of 2013 includes five hospitals, 51 primary care clinics, 22 urgent care locations, and numerous specialty
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leading edge of risk management practice. The recent credit crisis brought into focus the need for effective risk management control and highlighted many of the deficiencies of the banks’ approach to measuring credit risk. This has resulted in many financial institutions reviewing their existing approach to the management of credit risk from a process, organisational and systems perspective. At the same time, many institutions are also continuing to develop more sophisticated methods of risk management
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The Corporations Act (enforced by ASIC):--Outlines the responsibilities of company directors in relation to various activities, including the nature of their conduct, and preparation, lodgment and distribution of financial statement///Requires preparation of ‘true and fair’ financial statements by public companies, large proprietary companies, organizations with securities listed on the ASX, and some small proprietary companies. Functions of AASB--developing a conceptual framework making accounting
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involve evaluating the company’s standard of ethic, it ethic climate, and how well the company’s employees follow ethical standards. One of the first things to evaluate in an ethics audit is if a company has a written code of ethics and how comprehensive it is. Moreover, the written code of ethics should apply to everyone in the company from the top down with a clear zero tolerance policy in place for ethics violations. Included in a comprehensive ethics code should be a method for evaluating and updating
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Managed Care Describe the beginning of ACO In 2011, the US Department of Health and Human Resources has proposed the guidelines for Accountable Care Organisation (ACO) under the Medicare shared saving Program. The Patient Protection and Affordable Act authorises CMS to create the MSSP that help doctors, hospitals and other health care provider in coordinating care for Medicare patients through ACO. An ACO is a network of group of provider and suppliers who work together to provide high quality
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that may be a direct result of financial relationships that could influence healthcare decisions. The law is named for its author, United State Congressman Pete Stark, a Democrat from California, who authored and supported the creation of this piece of legislation. The law’s purpose is to prohibit a physician from referring a patient for designated health services (DHS) to any organization that the physician or a member of his/her immediate family has a financial relationship. Exceptions to the
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factor in health care delivery. The way health care is financed impacts it’s delivery. The continual increase of health care cost caused health care reform initiatives to control cost to focus on reimbursement models. Pay For Performance (P4P) is an increasingly popular initiative. The use of pay for performance has effects on the cost, quality, and efficiency of health care. This paper will discuss the effects the use of pay for performance has on patients, provider, and the evolution of health care
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happening to adults. It will then look at factors that may lead to abusive situations and assess the possible immediate effects of two different forms of abuse. The abuse that will be specifically looked at will be sexual and financial abuse, further extending by evaluating the potential long term effects of the two types of abuse. Abuse is a violation of a person’s civil and human rights. There are different types of abuse and they all set out to intentionally or unintentionally put a person at
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Management and information systems Name Institution Management and information systems Q.1.Was playing Jeopardy a good way to test intelligence of machines? Why or why not? The use of the supercomputer IBM Watson in the Jeopardy American television show was a very
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Abstract Patients are our primary customers. It is therefore important to measure their health care expectations and strive to meet those expectations 100% of the time. When a patient’s expectations are not reasonable, it becomes imperative to educate so that, over time, reasonable expectations are achieved. Often, perceived medical outcomes are poorly defined and arise from experiences from family and friends. Therefore, an opportunity exists to set the expectation of medical care and subsequent
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