Please complete all parts
Part 1
Choose one of the primary source documents from the topic list below. Using the primary source reading, answer the following questions. Use
this template
provided to complete the assignment.
Context (20 points): Name of the document you chose to analyze Who is the creator of the document?
B
riefly describe the creator of the document. (To answer this question, you may need to use information obtained from the introduction to the source, or other course materials such as the textbook or Intellipath. When and where was the document created? (
A
gain, you may need to use information obtained from the introduction to the source, or other course materials such as the Lib Guide, Intellipath, or your instructor.)
Choose one of the following documents to complete this assignment
SNCC Vine City Project, “Black Power,” 1966
Part 2
Choose one of the primary source documents from the topic list below. Using the primary source reading, answer the following questions. Use this template provided to complete the assignment.
Issue Today (25 points) Identify how the issue in the document relates to American life today. You will want to use specific examples to explain your points.
All sources used to complete this project should be cited using APA format, both in-text citations and references. Please use the CTU Undergraduate Writing Style Guide for assistance on APA formatting. References will vary based on topic.
Part 3
Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
You are a new graduate, and you just started work at a medium-sized hospital with an attached clinic. You have been asked to review the five different types of health care insurance plans and the characteristics of each to make sure the central business office (CBO) is up-to-date on all the rules and regulations. It is important to be familiar with these plans and the characteristics of each because they play a vital role in the reimbursement process for your health care organization. Discuss the following:
Would an out-of-date policy from one of these plans affect the facilities reimbursement? If so, how?
Part 4
Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Accurate coding and billing are essential to a health care facility and to a physician’s financial survival. Coding is a complex task that ties to charges and revenue generation. Failure to capture all charges associated with a patient encounter can result in significant revenue loss. Medical necessity also plays a vital role in the contract with the facility or physician in terms of receiving payment from the third party payer (e.g., an insurance company).
Part 1
For this Discussion Board, you will define medical necessity, and you will describe the criteria to determine it.
Part 2
Once the patient has an established diagnosis and the services and procedures have been ordered, you will code out this information and place it on the claim for payment.
It is important for health care professionals to understand this process to receive accurate reimbursement.
For this part of the discussion, you will be identifying the coding systems that are utilized to support the diagnosis, services, and procedures.
List and discuss the coding system that is utilized to code out the patient’s conditions or diagnosis. Provide an example of a diagnosis with the appropriate code as an example, and respond to the following questions:
Will it be implemented this year? Explain your answer.
Next, identify what coding system is utilized to capture the services and procedures that the patient has received (both levels). List an example of a service or procedure with the appropriate code as an example, and respond to the following questions:
What are the repercussions of submitting incorrect coding and billing errors to the third party payers?
Part 5
Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
There have been some major developments in the health care industry with the evolution of managed care, patient-centered care, electronic medical records, medical necessity, stronger rules and regulations, and government intervention. You are fairly new at your job, so you have been asked to identify and review the federal regulations that impact (or have impacted) the financial management of the hospital and clinic.
Complete the following for this Discussion Board assignment:
List the year and the event, and then summarize how you think this event has impacted the health care industry today.
Note: You must provide citations from your research.
Part 6
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There are many reimbursement methods that are utilized to reimburse physicians and facilities for the services and procedures that they provide to patients. A physician and the facility must keep track of the services and procedures that they are providing to the patients to bill out and receive the appropriate reimbursement. The chargemaster or charge description master (CDM) is the billing process that is used in all health care facilities, and it is updated yearly.
Focus your discussion on the following questions:
How can facilities ensure that the current CDM is used?
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Summative Discussion Board
Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, write at least 3 paragraphs on the following:
The main post should include at least 1 reference to research sources, and all sources should be cited using APA format.
Unit 2 Discussion Board Template
Source Chosen: Insert the citation of the source chosen (Use the citation on the assignment page,
as it is already APA formatted)
Context:
a. Name of the document you chose to analyze.
b. Include the name of creator as found in introduction.
c. Provide a description of the creator of the document.
•
To answer this question, you may need to use information obtained from the
introduction to the source, or other course materials such as the Lib Guide,
Intellipath or your instructor.
d. Include the date and location of the document’s creation.
•
Again, you may need to use information obtained from the introduction to the
source, or other course materials such as the Lib Guide, Intellipath or your
instructor..
Summary:
a. Write a brief summary of the source. Consider the following questions when creating
your summary:
a. What is the topic or issue the source is talking about?
b. What are the creator’s main points about that topic?
c. What is one interesting thing you learned from the source?
Connections:
a. Discuss how this source helps you to better understand a topic covered in this Unit’s
learning materials. Consider the following questions:
a. What topic in the learning materials does this source address?
b. What extra information do you learn about that topic from the source?
c. Did the source support what you already knew about the topic? Provide an
example.
d. Or, did the source change the way you think you about this topic? Provide an
example.
Unit 4 Discussion Board Template
Use this template to complete the discussion board assignment. After filling in the template,
student can copy and paste it into the discussion board.
To do that follow these steps:
1) Highlight the entire document
2) Right click and select copy
3) Click into the discussion board text box.
4) Right click and select paste.
Template:
Source Chosen: Insert the citation of the source chosen (See assignment page for citation in APA
formatting)
Context:
a. Name of the document you chose to analyze.
b. Here you will insert name of creator found in introduction.
c. Here you will insert a description of the creator of the document. (To answer this question,
you may need to use information obtained from the introduction to the source, or other
course materials such as the Lib Guide, Live Chat or Intellipath.)
d. Here you will insert the date and location of the documents creation. (Again, you may need
to use information obtained from the introduction to the source, or other course materials
such as the Lib Guide, Live Chat, or Intellipath.)
Summary:
a. Here you will write a brief summary of the source. Consider the following questions
when creating your summary:
a. What is the topic or issue the source is talking about?
b. What are the creator’s main points about that topic?
c. What is one interesting this said in the source?
Connections:
a. Here you will discuss how this source helps you to better understand a topic discussed
in this Unit’s learning materials. Consider the following questions:
a. What topic in the learning materials does this source address?
b. What extra information do you learn about that topic from the source?
c. Did the source support what you already knew about the topic? Provide an
example.
d. Or did the source change the way you think you about this topic? Provide an
example.
Issue Today:
a. Here you will discuss how the issue in the documents relates to American life today.
a. Is the United States still dealing with similar issues?
b. How has the issue changed over time?
c. Do you think the United States learned any lessons from dealing with this issue
in the past?
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