Be sure to support your work with specific in-text citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources such as those found in the Library. Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct. Initial postings must be 250–350 words (not including references).

Post your answer to one of the following topic questions 

Choose one of the following:

What are the three primary forms of business organizations? Describe their advantages and disadvantages from a financial point of view?

Review managed care contracts for different payment plans (PPO, HMO, Fee for services, etc.) and describe provider incentives and risks under each of the following reimbursement methods: Cost-basedCharge-base (including discounted charges)Per procedurePer diagnosesPer diemGlobal pricingCapitation
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This week, you will be completing your final assignment.  This is a 5-6 slide narrated/speaker notes PowerPoint presentation.  In the presentation you will incorporate any feedback from your week 9 PowerPoint and reduce the overall presentation to 5 slides.  Some additional points:

• You will use your PowerPoint from module 5 as the basis
• This presentation is a total of 5-6 slides
• You will focus on the dissemination strategy for your practice change
• Be sure to include a slide which identifies your topic, the issue, and the rationale for implementing this practice change
• You will not need to include the lessons learned section
• This assignment requires that you narrate the presentation, however there are 2 options you can choose from:
  • Narrate each slide

OR

• Include detailed speaker notes for each slide

Keep in mind that when creating a presentation, each slide should include clear, and concise information.  The majority of the detail will be in either the narration or the speaker notes.  When you narrate/speaker notes for your presentation, you should be providing additional information than is on the slide.  You should not read directly from the slide. 

PROJECT 

The dissemination of EBP results serves multiple important roles. Sharing results makes the case for your decisions. It also adds to the body of knowledge, which creates opportunities for future practitioners. By presenting results, you also become an advocate for EBP, creating a culture within your organization or beyond that informs, educates, and promotes the effective use of EBP.

To Prepare:

• Review the final PowerPoint presentation you submitted in Module 5, and make any necessary changes based on the feedback you have received and on lessons you have learned throughout the course.
• Consider the best method of disseminating the results of your presentation to an audience.

To Complete:

Create a 5-minute, 5- to 6-slide narrated PowerPoint presentation of your Evidence-Based Project.

• Be sure to incorporate any feedback or changes from your presentation submission in Module 5.
• Explain how you would disseminate the results of your project to an audience. Provide a rationale for why you selected this dissemination strategy.

  

Suburban Homes Construction Project Quality Management Plan (QMP) 

Prepare a quality management plan using the elements described in the PMBOK 6e (Section 8.1.3.1) for the Suburban Homes Construction Project.

Content (90 points) Over the course the semester you’ve become familiar with the project and as part of the overall project management plan, a quality management plan is needed to communicate how quality will be met to the satisfaction of each stakeholder involved in a typical residential construction project.

You should perform research on quality standards associated with residential construction to determine applicable standards.  At least four (4) quality objectives associated with the project should be defined.

As part of the section on quality tools, include a separate appendix with at least three (3) quality tools that will be used as a part of the project.  These can be drawn from: 1) flow charts, 2) check sheets, 3) Pareto diagrams, 4) histograms, 5) control charts, 6) scatter diagrams, 7) affinity diagrams, 8) process decision programs charts, 9) interrelationship digraphs, 10) tree diagrams, 11) prioritization matrices, 12) activity network diagrams, 13) matrix diagrams, 14) inspections, and 15) statistical sampling.

Last, about 1/3 of the plan should be devoted to major procedures relevant for the project for dealing with non-conformance, corrective actions procedures, and continuous improvement procedures.

If information needed to complete a QMP is not explicitly stated in the scenario description or other project artifacts you’ve created or collected for this scenario in the past units, then develop (make-up) the information you need to complete the plan.  Use tables and illustrations as needed to convey information.

The plan (excluding the separate appendix) should be approximately 4 to 5 pages. 

  

QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR XYZ Project Author: Your Name & Date 

QUALITY OBJECTIVES

Define high level Project Quality objectives. Define ‘Project Level Quality’ from Customer/Sponsor Key Stakeholder level. 

PROJECT DELIVERABLES SUBJECT TO QUALITY REVIEW 

This section should summarize the Quality Control table below.

PROJECT PROCESSES DESIGNED TO ASSURE QUALITY & IMPROVE COST OF QUALITY

This section should summarize Quality Assurance table below.

QUALITY STANDARDS

This section should summarize the quality standards to be used and why they were chosen. This narrative should also clearly summarize how the project team will determine compliance with the quality standards. The summary should include both the product (standards for deliverables) and processes (expectations for project processes). Considerations may include: industry norms, government regulations, & customer specific standards, etc.).

QUALITY ROLES

This table is organized by team member and should identify quality roles for each team member as well as any external entities (regulators) involved in quality control &/or assurance. Be sure to identify who is overall accountable/responsible for others who will be performing specific Quality Control Activities (on deliverables) and reporting results.  

  

Project   Team Role

Name

Quality   Control / Quality Assurance Responsibilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

QUALITY TOOLS USED FOR THE PROJECT

Specifically identify, describe and justify the use of at least three quality tools that will be used for the project (See PMBOK 6e 8.2.2 & 8.3.2 Also see CPM 4e pages 469 -474). Provide Examples/Templates in Appendix A. 

   

Quality    Tool Name

Description    / Purpose & Applicability

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER RELEVANT MAJOR PROCEDURES

Managing Nonconformance & Corrective Actions procedures

Describe your planned format and frequency of communications to ensure you can evaluate performance whether for a team member performing an activity or for a vendor executing a contract. Identify how will you will apply performance criteria/thresholds during project execution and determine/apply corrective action (if needed) on a timely basis. 

Processes to ensure Continuous Improvement   (part of Quality Assurance)

For teams to remain successful, they must develop the discipline to continually improve upon their team processes (both quality & productivity) as well as their members’ team skills. What specifically will you do to ensure the team proactively collaborates and evaluates the changing dynamics of their operating environment to ensure team members’ learning? How will you ensure the team’s processes are evolving a pace at least equal to the rate of change? Will any particular model be used? (SIPOC, PDCA, DMAIC, etc.). Consider Benchmarking and feedback from customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. 

  

QUALITY CONTROL & QUALITY ASSURANCE TABLES:

Quality Control Activities: (Reactive)

   

Quality Control focuses on Project Deliverables. Quality control is a set of activities    designed to evaluate project deliverables. Quality control focuses on finding defects in deliverables and/or verifying    that requirements are being achieved.

 

Deliverable    Name/Description

Metric    (Attribute that will be measured)

Physical    or Performance Quality Standard1

Quality    Control Activity2 and Frequency

Who    is Responsible for performing Control Activity and reporting results

 

 

 

 

1Actual value or range of values/criteria that must be achieved to meet quality standards /customer satisfaction.

2Describe tools & techniques that will be used to determine if the deliverable is in compliance with quality standards. I.e. what tests/measurements/analysis will be performed to verify the deliverable conforms to specifications?

Quality Assurance Activities: (Proactive)

   

Quality Assurance focuses on Project Processes. Think of quality assurance as activities    that help to prevent quality problems while developing project    deliverables. Quality assurance ensures    that your project processes are appropriate and consistently followed.

 

Quality    Assurance Process/Procedure

(Activities you will use to help avoid    the need for rework)

Quality    Standards for Process / Procedure1

Monitoring    Quality Assurance Activity and Frequency2

(Audits, Process Reviews, etc.)

Who    is Responsible for performing Assurance Activity and reporting results

 

 

 

 

1Stakehlder’s standards /expectations for the QA process. What are the good or best practices stakeholders expect to be installed for reducing costs and improving quality?

2 Activity that will be performed to monitor if the QA process /procedure is being followed and complies with organizational expectations (good or best practices).  

  

APPENDIX A (SAMPLE QUALITY TOOLS)

In two different paragraph give your personal opinion to  Patricia Fonseca and  
Chelcie Barnett  

 Chelcie Barnett 

The ways that I think would encourage and increase technological advances and availability and try to decrease costs for all the stakeholders involved. 

“Development of new treatments for previously untreatable terminal conditions, including long-term maintenance therapy for treatment of such diseases as diabetes, end-stage renal disease, and AIDS;
Major advances in clinical ability to treat previously untreatable acute conditions, such as coronary artery bypass graft;
Development of new procedures for discovering and treating secondary diseases within a disease, such as erythropoietin to treat anemia in dialysis patients;
Expansion of the indications for a treatment over time, increasing the patient population to which the treatment is applied;
On-going, incremental improvements in existing capabilities, which may improve quality;
Clinical progress, through major advances or by the cumulative effect of incremental improvements, that extends the scope of medicine to conditions once regarded as beyond its boundaries, such as mental illness and substance abuse.” ( KFF, 2007)

References

KFF (2007) Snapshots: How Changes in Medical Technology Affect Health Care Costs. Retrieved from https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/snapshots-how-changes-in-medical-technology-affect/

 Patricia Fonseca

Not everyone thinks the same, I think if the cost would be reduced more people could have access.  There are so many new technological advances and the majority are digital advances.  Telemedicine is a great way to provide help to those in remote areas (Kumar, 2011).  I would be willing to pay a higher premium or extra FICA to help make sure I have access as well as helping others have access. I think increasing employee taxes could help with the Medicaid expenses on a state level. If people get an annual exam, they can know when a new medical problem occurs and get immediate attention, keeping overall expenses down.

Thanks,

Patricia          

References:

Kumar R. K. (2011). Technology and healthcare costs. Annals of pediatric cardiology, 4(1), 84–86. doi:10.4103/0974-2069.79634

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Part 1 Tasks (Week 4 )

Training Manual

In this assignment, you will develop a training manual that will be utilized for training new employees (certified medical administrative assistants [CMAAs]) who join the clinic.

Physicians are hiring more CMAAs to help manage the increasing complexities of patient care and practice management, while also helping to implement cost-effectiveness and efficiency. The responsibilities of a CMAA can be tailored to the needs of the practice. You will manage front-office functions, manage patient flow, and handle a wide range of tasks that have been discussed in the past few weeks. As a CMAA, you may convey clinical information on behalf of the physician and follow clinical protocol when speaking with patients, but you cannot exercise independent medical judgments. You will also help to optimize patient flow, enabling the physician to see more patients with efficiency, all while following your State’s scope of practice and working under the supervision of a licensed physician.

Note: Content from Weeks 1–3 IPs and DBs can be wholly or partially used as necessary to address the specific Key Assignment tasks shown below. You should take into account any instructor feedback from those IPs and DBs.

The project deliverables are as follows:

• Training Manual
  • Title page
    • Course number and name
    • Project name
    • Your name
    • Date
  • The training manual should include the following topics:
    • An introduction to the health care system
    • The organization’s structure
    • The process of checking patients in and out
    • Scheduling patients
    • Various community and patient resources
    • Processes for how to interact with patients
    • Health insurance plans
    • Financial procedures related to the policies of the organization
    • Clean claims
    • Financial procedures related to the organization’s cash flow
    • Billing policy and procedures
    • Protecting patients’ privacy
    • Accounting and bookkeeping procedures and processes
    • Office procedures for various forms of documentation (release of information, electronic health record)
    • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules and regulations
    • HIPAA forms
    • Advance directives
    • Medical record responsibilities
    • Obtaining patient demographics and insurance information
    • Receive, triage, and route phone calls
    • Review records for medical necessity
    • Release of information guidelines