Accountable Care organization ACO & apos;s Student’s name Background Accountable care organization is composed of a group of care providers‚ hospitals‚ and doctors who join up collaboratively together to provide high-quality care to the patients. The goal of an Accountable Care Organization is to ensure that they provide coordinated care to the patients ensuring that the chronically ill especially will get the right care at the right time while avoiding unnecessary services duplication as
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Accountable Care Organization Ralph Edwards Grand Canyon University Operations in Risk Management in Health Care HCA-460 Dr. Smith March 24‚ 2013 ACO Even although‚ the cost of the health care system and the care it offers my not allow the national debt to decline to a level that will or would enhance the economy forward the cost of running a system that is backed by the government is too costly‚ and it will not help the deficit. ‚ the legal responsibility of the organization is that every
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Accountable Care Organizations and The National Healthcare System | :The Next generation of Healthcare in America | | Accountable Care Organizations and the National Healthcare System The Next Generation of Healthcare in America National healthcare has been a hot button issue around dinner tables in America for years. Everyone seems to have an option on what will or will not work‚ how our county will afford it and what a plan would entail. Although we are unsure of how a plan would
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of An Accountable Care Organization: HealthCare Partners Health care expenditure in the United States is approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product. National health care spending is projected to increase about 5.1 % from 2010 to 2020. A more efficient model to health care spending is important to slow the growth of national health care spending. Proposed ideas to reduce the spending are: Shift from a fee for service model to a bundled payment for services; improve health care quality
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has granted more Americans access to health care insurance. As discussed earlier‚ the increase in insured persons means more patients in the already burdened health care system. The up-front cost of providing care to nearly 16.4 million Americans will be great to health care providers and organizations. The ACA presented new concepts to health delivery that move away from the traditional fee-for-service payment model in hopes to increase quality of care‚ improve patient outcomes‚ reduce costs‚ and
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Continuum of Care: Home Health Care This paper will explain the components of the Home Health Care delivery system of continuum. The reader will be able to understand some of the services provided by the home health care system and how they fit into the continuum of care. It will give details on how the entity does or does not contribute to the overall management of healthcare resources. In conclusion‚ it will examine the future trends of health care and discuss how the home health services will
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The United States health care system can be somewhat complicated and often have some barriers or limitations to care. The continuum of care is one of the concepts that is applied to prevent the limitations within the system. Continuum of care is defined as: A range of services developed and organized to address the variety of needs individuals have as they age. This concept recognizes and considers the availability and extent of short-term and long-term care systems and services in
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Continuity of care is defined as the continuation of care of a patient over time by multiple health care providers (REF 1). Continuum of care is defined as care of a patient over time from preventive medicine to early intervention to acute care‚ through rehabilitation‚ from the hospital to the home‚ and involving community services and medical and social aspects of care (Ref 2). Continuity of care is multidimensional and has been used to describe many different relationships between health care
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able to take care of ourselves there is a service that can help. This paper will give a general background behind long term care; provide a brief description of the services provided by long term care; and give the future trends of long term care. What is Long Term Care? In most cases when people become too old or sick to take care of themselves they require assistance from other people. Many times a family member is not able to care for their loved one so this is where long term care comes into
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Approaches to Decision Making Johanna Ruiz HCA/250 March 29‚ 2013 Robbie Johnson Decision Making Managers are faced with many different types of decision every day on the job and off the job as well. We do make decisions everyday that come naturally to ourselves‚ but when you are placed on a managers position you are not only making a decision that will affect yourself but your employees as well. Employees count on the managers to look out for them and make sure that their best
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