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Working as a Case Coordinator for a Medicaid Waiver provider something to get use to is the ever-changing policies, procedures, and work load. A large environmental factor at play with this field is politics. Our Medicaid system is under attack right now and individuals that truly need the services are at risk for losing them. For months our company’s stakeholders, employees, consumers, families, have all been emailing our state representatives to vote against a healthcare bill that could strip individuals with disabilities much needed services. Services span anywhere from expensive medical supplies, durable medical supplies, nursing and therapy services, to waiver services that provides home health aids and community support. Without …show more content…

As a mom of a child with special needs, and a consumer of our company I value this model. As a consumer of Medicaid services our consumers are told all the time that they have a choice of who their provider is. This is a policy of Medicaid in and of it itself, and an important one at that; therefore, it is important to know as a company, that our consumers can change providers at any given moment. This level of competition should keep all Medicaid providers on their toes to provide the best possible care possible to their consumers. So even though my company has a unique model, other companies are starting to incorporate aspects of our model, and if we don’t provide the best care possible we will no doubt lose our consumers to a competitive company. In a field that is service related this is something to be stay on top of in every aspect possible. Technological force is important to my every day job as well. Most would assume that technological forces are about electronics; however, Hellriegel, Jason, and Slocum (2008) define technological force as “a transformation process that changes organizational inputs into outputs. This technology is the knowledge, tools, techniques, and actions used to transform ideas, information, and materials into finished goods and services”

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