A large manufacturing firm in your area closes its doors, resulting in an increase in unemployment. You manage a multi-physician primary care practice. About half of your patients are covered by public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. The other half is covered by their employersâ?? health insurance plan. What effect would you expect the closure to have on:

your volume of business

your revenue per visit

your costs

In discussing this, be sure to consider the balance of maintaining a profitable business for your physician-owners with the medical needs of the patients.
(2)
It is often claimed that hospitals compete for physicians rather than patients. Assuming this is true, how does it occur and what are the implications in terms of service availability, costs, and market power of the providers and the health insurers? On the other hand, have you seen any evidence to contradict this, even partially?

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Write a 1250 1500 word paper that describes the following three economic analyses: cost benefit analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, and cost utility analysis. Define each of the three analyses and explain how each of the three could be used in a health care setting

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An evaluation of social and psychological influences on lifestyle choices and health outcome.

Focus of the Independent Study
Health risk behaviour
•    Define health behaviour
•    Define health promotion
•    Unhealthy diet
•    Smoking
•    Unprotected sexual behaviour
Health enhancing behaviour
•    Healthy diet
•    Exercise
•    Health-screening behaviour
•    Immunisation behaviour

Predicting health behaviour
•    Models of health behaviour
•    Social cognitive models of behaviour change
•    Health belief model the yale model of communication
•    Social cognition model behavioural change ( strengths and weakness)

Resources for the Independent Study

Banyard, P. (2002) Psychology in Practice: Health. London: Hodder Stoughton

Morrison, V. & Bennett, P. (2006) An Introduction to Health Psychology. Harlow: Pearson Education

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XtaNAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Hospital Admissions Office

The admissions office of a large hospital has an annual operating budget of $700,000. These costs are distributed to impatient departments (surgery, medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry) and to outpatient departments (drug treatment, prenatal care, and dialysis). In the past, the admissions office’s costs have been allocated to inpatients and outpatients based on the number of patients processed. But now hospital management is seeking some alternative ways to distribute these costs.

The following data for the last 12 months summarize the number of patients, average days per stay, average patient bill, and average number of minutes to register inpatients and outpatients.

# of patients Average days per patient stay Average patient Bill Average minutes to register a patient
Inpatient 25,000 6.50 $8,200 12
Outpatient 120,000 1.00 700 8

Required:
a. Allocate the admissions office’s annual operating budget to inpatient and outpatient categories based on
1. Total number of patients
2. Total number of patient days
3. Total patient billings
4. Total minutes used registering
b. Discuss the managerial implications of these various alternative ways to distribute the admissions office’s costs. Which method should the hospital adopt

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Types of conflict found in a healthcare setting

Paper instructions:
Bobby Langdon is the current president of Acme General. It is a 300-bed hospital serving a community of 70,000 people. He has just completed a meeting with the hospital administrator, Susy

Miller. The meeting was called to address to find an acceptable solution to an apparant conflict between Ms. Miller and the chief of the Bariatric Program, Dr. Kincaid. The problem: The Bariatic

Program manager is scheduling the various surgeries in such a way that the providers do not feel they can adequately perform these complicated procedures. They also feel there isn’t proper

time allowed between procedures to set up the surgical suite for the next case. The providers feel that the scheduling issues are resulting in poor patient outcomes. It has also been pointed out

that the program manager shows favoritism toward some of the providers and allows them more time in the OR and between cases. The problem escalated when Dr. Kincaid fired the program

manager after numerous complaints from providers, staff, and patients. The manager talked to Ms. Miller who over-ruled the doctor. She cited that non-clinical staff could not be fired by the

program director. After reading this scenario, use the information you have gleaned from your research and the required readings to answer the following questions.

Identify and discuss at least 3 types of conflict found in a healthcare setting.
What type of conflict is represented in this scenario? (Justify your response.)
What is the potential impact on the Bariatric Program and the organization? (Discuss at least three)
What are some potential solutions? Which one is the best considering all the facts that have been presented?
What will likely be the reaction of Ms. Miller, Dr. Kincaid, and the program manager when a resolution is decided?
Please support your discussions with scholarly support (3-5 references). Be sure to properly cite all references.

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Paper instructions:

Incorporate citation into paper. Talk about the three major types of eating disorders. Use psychology terms and concepts.

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