Writing

Medicare And Medicaid

Introduction:

Medicare and Medicaid are federal programs that cover a large proportion of the US population with healthcare. The two have similar objectives in the area of providing care, but there are significant differences in them that concern reimbursement.

Tasks:

• Describe each program, Medicare and Medicaid.
• Provide the major features of each program.
• Discuss how these programs differ from each other.
• Briefly describe the process of how to bill for each program.

Claims management is the art of consolidating, billing, filing, revising, and managing medical claims, an imperative aspect of the healthcare industry. Medical facilities cannot receive due funds if patients are unaware of how much they need to pay. Ensuring provider organizations understand the fundamentals of medical billing and coding can help providers and other staff operate a smooth revenue cycle.

Tasks:

• Explain some of the common medical billing and coding challenges/issues.
• Explain the impact of improper claims management.
• Describe how technology can be helpful when it comes to medical billing and what tools are available.

Review the following lecture:

Legal and Regulatory Issues

Introduction:

The 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act established a database that is intended to improve the quality of healthcare in this country. Two other databases have merged with it and now offer many potential advantages.

Tasks:

• Describe the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB).
• Identify the uses of the NPDB.
• Analyze any limitations of the NPDB.
• Describe how NPDB relates to billing for services.

  Point out Walmart’s continuous improvement tools and techniques used in problem solving supporting sustainable operations.  This should include topics such as lean techniques, quality management, TQM and JIT (LOG310).

·  How does Walmart manage the interrelationships among strategic support and operational logistics as related to the logistics functions of business involved in the movement and storage of supplies, work-in-progress, and finished goods? (LOG320).

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

·  Write between 500 – 600 words

Financial Management Budgeting Information 

This week you will be creating a 3-part budget, where you identify and plan the meeting of your financial needs at the following stages of your life:

1) meeting current needs

2) meeting financial needs 10 years out

3) meeting financial needs at retirement and beyond