The Economics of Health Care Quality and Medical Errors Charles Andel, Stephen L. Davidow, Mark Hollander, and David A. Moreno Charles Andel, MBA, BSRT, is Manager of Radiology Quality and Compliance at Loyola University Medical Center and a graduate of Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business MBA in Healthcare Management program. He may be reached at cjandel@lumc.edu. Stephen L. Davidow, MBA, APR, is a health care marketing and communications professional with a strong focus
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Who Cares? Why the Shortageof Nurses Should Matter Dondi A. Dancy Webster University INTRODUCTION The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that between calendar years 2001 and 2018 the most significant increase in job growth will occur in the healthcare industry, primarily within the nursing sector. Registered Nurses (more commonly known as RNs) complete an Associate degree nursing program (ASN) or higher (BSN, MSN, ND, DNSc, or DNP). Every healthcare experience involves the knowledge
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Historical Legislation from 1965: Medicare and Medicaid Liliana Martinez Dr. Smith Grand Canyon University: HCA-460 3/7/13 Historical Legislation from 1965: Medicare and Medicaid The Medicare and Medicaid programs were signed into law on July 30, 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson ("Centers for Medicare," 2012). Before this decision was even taken into consideration, many other healthcare reforms had previously been introduced by earlier presidents, but failed to pass the Senate. Healthcare
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attempt by proposing a health care reform bill. After all the votes were tallied and The 111th United States Congress gave the green light, President Barack Obama enacted into law on Tuesday march 23, 2010 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) also known as Obama care. This piece of legislature was created with the propos of providing all citizens with the ability to access medical care regardless of age, pre-existing medical conditions, and health insurance coverage. The bill would take
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In recent years our healthcare system has been the subject of much debate and policy change. With the enactment of the patient protection and the affordable care act much of what is known about the healthcare system is changing. This has been one of the most drastic departure from the traditional healthcare systems that we had. Why do we have to change healthcare system? How do we get to a place where healthcare reform and structuring was needed? To answer these questions, we must look back to our
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Health Care Reform Part I Health care spending in the United States is among the highest of industrialized nations (Health Policy Education, 2011). Health care reform found its roots in the 1900s when just prior to that physicians were caring for hospitalized patients without charge. Today it is a main political issue tipping the scales toward a presidential election. Team C chose this topic because of the serious nature and as future managers, leaders in health care administration; a greater
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continuum of care. Our health care system landscape is changing; no longer are we just treating illness, our health care system has evolved to one of disease prevention and wellness. With the signing of the Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), an additional 30 million Americans now have access to affordable and equitable health care (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2011). The rising cost of health care and the sheer volume of those needing health care has led to reinventions in our care delivery
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processes and the structure that allows a large project to proceed without directly assigning responsibility will also be looked at. Introduction On March 23, 2010 President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. The law’s intent is to provide health insurance coverage to millions of uninsured Americans through new private insurance marketplaces, called exchanges, as well as an expansion of Medicaid. It also allows children up
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The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA) The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also know as Affordable Care Act, is a law that was brought into effect to improve the way of the Health care system as well as Medicare and Medicaid. Which was signed in March 2010 by President Barack Obama. This law allow the uninsured and middle class workers to be able to afford health coverage. It also allows existing insurance holders to be able to keep their plans. This
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benchmarks” (Pay for Performance, 2012). Pay-for-performance has become a popular tool to attempt to improve quality and efficiency in health care. It is becoming more widespread with the enactment of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as it expands pay-for-performance programs. Long-term patient indicators are very difficult to measure, so performance measurement tools concentrate on short-term goals and chronic disease management benchmarks. Indicators may include specific
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