Essays on Denials

Healthcare Providence to every citizen is the prime responsibility of medical care centers and other health departments working simultaneously. It is imperative for health care centers to educate and inform self-pay patients how to deal with insurance procedures. The medical institutes are devising strategies to collect cash from self-pay patients efficiently. Many of health care institutes help out self-pay patients to get insured but still many of self-pay patients do not get proper outlets or platforms to insure themselves. Healthcare centers like Sutter Healthcare are progressing and working on how to provide healthcare services to those who cannot afford ...

Abstract

In healthcare financial management, health insurance contributes in determining the healthcare services. The fee schedule provides a list of charges reimbursed for service providers and suppliers. Center for Medicare services, CMS, uses the fee schedule to determine the facilities and non-facility in healthcare provisions. Physicians, ambulance and medical equipment services among others help in the determination of the fee schedule by Medicare Physician Fee Structure (MPFS). The study focuses on CPT code 99214-office visit as the reference in the service delivery by the center of Medicare services. The Medicare and Medicaid rates are essential in determination the fee schedule. ...

The article Police Interrogation from a Social Psychology Perspective discusses a stage of the investigative process called the interrogation of suspects. The article deals with two interrogation techniques from a social psychology perspective. It discusses the effects of these techniques and provides the overview of the techniques. Thus, the research questions posed in the article are as follows. What are the effects of the interrogation? How to conduct it in the best way (Hartwig, Anders Granhag, & Vrij, 2005, p. 381). The issue raised in the article is based on the social psychology theories. The article also addresses a legal ...

Revenue Cycle Training Opportunity

Introduction Accounts receivable (A/R) refers to revenue owed by client and third party payers. Its main objective is to minimize the duration that accounts are outstanding. These accounts are stated as short-term stakes and unsecure promise that the recipient will pay in future. A plan is made in the accounts of the institution to balance accounts receivable that are not met as losses. To minimise this loss a well organised insurance A/R staff is put in place. The purpose of this report is to analyse the best way to come up with a competent training program for insurance A/R ...

Electronic data interchange (EDI) refers to a communication method which provides a way through which data can be exchanged using electronic means. Two organizations are in a position to share data electronically so long as they are in the same standards of operation. Common standards currently in use include ODETTE, EDIFCAT, X12 amongst many others. It is important to note that this method of data transfer involves the interchange of information in the computer-to-computer format and is mainly done using formatted messages which are a representation of the documents being sent (Pfeiffer, 2012). A key point to note is ...

The plight of the American woman Karen Dove, an uninsured lady depicted in the PBS video Critical Care, is unfortunately a common example of the horrendous status of the healthcare system policies and planning in the United States. After physicians had denied her consultation, treatment, and access she finally took it upon herself to initiate seeking medical help by contacting an organization dedicated to cancer. Should seeking and receiving adequate medical care in a modern ...

Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women

Question 1

Feminist researches have made important contributions to the field of survey research and the methods of measuring sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Describe the major methodological contributions of feminist researchers as well as the advantages of dedicated violence against women surveys.

Response 1

The feminist researches materialized research models that are relevant, legitimate, and popular. Both the quality and validity of the findings are beyond contentions and it produced important results that provided suitable guidelines for policies vital in the modern society. The domains and basic methodological principles are very diverse and wide. In addition, the type ...

Introduction

USA has the highest percentage of prison population than any other country in the world. Over the last 35 years, USA has seen a boom in the rate of incarceration by increasingly relying on its strategy of building and filling prisons for crime reduction. USA took about 160 years to gather its first 1 million inmates and another 1 million just took 12 years. It is estimated the prison population witnessed a 321% hike between the years 1980-2000 when the total number of prisoners went from 315,956 to 1,329,367 (Kovandzic & Vieraitis, 2006). Statistics show that prison population has ...

Article Discussion (HEALTHCARE)

Discuss the various costs and their relationship to planning, budgeting, and control The healthcare sector in United States incurs many costs in relation to planning different operations. The rising concerns about the costs of health care have become a serious concern to the federal government. The passage of Medicate and Medicaid lead into the acceleration of the federal budget and overall national health costs. In an effort to minimize crises facing the health care sector, health care policy experts advised on expanding the number of health maintenance organizations. The increase in number of health care centers had a significant impact ...

Book Review: The Petticoat Affair

John Marszalek, in his book The Petticoat Affair: Manners Mutiny and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House, investigates the well-documented and scandalous 'Eaton Affair' of President Andrew Jackson's first presidential term, in which he defended the provocative marriage of Peggy Timberlake (rumored to be sexually promiscuous) to Jackson's War Secretary John Henry Eaton. Since the wives of the rest of Jackson's Cabinet refused to accept her into the fold, Jackson tirelessly spent two years of his life trying to defend her honor, which cost Jackson a great deal of reputation and cachet among the American people. It even cost him ...

Athletes and Drugs

The author, George Orwell, once said, “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” (Tribune, 1945) In the world of sports, many athletes look upon victory as their only possible option, too, resorting to unethical behaviors just to be crowned champion. Lance Armstrong was born on September 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas, near Dallas. He was athletic from an early age, running and swimming at 10 years old, and competing ...

In the following pages of this article Michael Flood (2008) outlines the plight of the American father to ask a question, ‘what’s wrong with father’s rights.’ In essence by advocating father’s rights, as movements emerging in response to feminism and domestic violence Flood (2008) explains the phenomenon from the perspective of its impact on the movement itself (Flood, 2008). Precisely, he views this issue as drawing unnecessary attention to men and their role as fathers to the extent of it raising antagonistic sentiments towards feminist activities. Further, he highlights the politics of this issue to show ...