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The Joint Commission has set forth standards for health care organizations to reduce the number of risks and amend the quality of care and the safety of the patient. Risk management and quality management focus on these attributes of the organization and the patient. Risks are impossible to avoid since it linked to everyday living and the workforce. Risk management must take the initiative to distinguish and oversee these risks. Due to the lack of consistency in the quality of care, health care organizations

As a graduate student offering healthcare administration, one of the key issues relevant to this field is managed care and quality care. Most of the concern for the last several decades was focused on the cost of increase in healthcare delivery. Focus during this age was on physician patient relationship dependence; where services provided were based on ‘fee for services’ or what is called unmanaged or traditional form of healthcare delivery. With this system, patients were charged base on the nature

Statement of Operations and Financial Statements 1. List several efforts that have been enacted by payors to control costs. 2. Explain the ramifications of allowing/disallowing an individual to be able to sue his or her HMO. 3. What are each of the financial statements commonly called in for-profit health care organizations and in not for-profit care organizations? Financial statements are commonly called balance sheets, income statement, statement of owner’s equity, or statement

have on heath care as well as heath insurance is very dramatic. Most health insurers, private sector employers and consumers can expect increases in insurance premiums. This includes both traditional types of insurance and managed care programs, or HMOs. Some health insurance plans may also reduce benefits to keep their plans affordable. This may include increasing cost-sharing responsibility of members and the amount members pay out of pocket for certain services, such as prescription drugs. The

1. What does someone with this career do? Define the career (e.g. A civil engineer designs bridges and roads). A psychiatric physician diagnoses mental disorders and prescribe treatments utilizing principle of psychiatry*. Psychiatrist are physicians who specialize in psychiatry and are certified to treat illnesses. * Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various abnormalities related to mood, behavior

military men, veterans and their families. They receive comprehensive health care, cost effective medicines and life insurance. Soldiers and their families are automatically entitled to group life insurance (service members) covered by a complete HMO-type health care plan for army men, known as TRICARE. This provides affordable and also free dental and medical care. Those who have enrolled

quality performance rating system to measure Medicare beneficiaries’ performance experience with their health plans and the health care system. This rating system applies to all Medicare Advantage areas of business: Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), plus it also applies to Medicare Advantage plans that cover both health services and prescription drugs (MA-PD). The program is a key component in financing health care benefits for MA and MA-PD plan enrollees

The historic Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center (originally the Oakland Civic Auditorium), has been the focus of development plans ever since the 215,000-square-foot facility closed down in 2004. It's slated to become office space, but during its heyday, it hosted wrestling competitions, circuses and Elvis Presley concerts; in 1962, it even welcomed Martin Luther King Jr. to commemorate the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. The Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center is located on 3600

fund an internal health insurance plan, which is usually administered by a third party from a health insurance program. HMO 's, or Health Maintenance Organizations, are the most common type of the health care. HMOs are an example (employer pays yearly capitation fee). It saves some money on routine care, but it is not good for specialized care. From a physician 's perspective HMOs cause them to earn less, but work shorter hours. Our system would have started a major change with The Clinton Plan in

information in the article shows how money was spent on healthcare during the time the article was published. The article makes inference that there will continue to be an escalation in health spending. (Heffler et al., 2004).  Robinson, J.C. (1991). HMO market penetration and hospital cost inflation in California. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 266 (19), 2719-2723. Retrieved March 20, 2013, from http://jama.jamanetwork.com.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/article.aspx?articleid=393332. The article