LIT1 Task 1 Dennis Marceaux 07/10/2015 Situation A Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993: The purpose of the FMLA is to allow employees up to 12 wks. per yr. of unpaid leave for the purpose of managing personal/family issues without negative company recourse. The employee requirements are that he/she must be a full time employee (>24hrs/wk. ), with at least 1 year of service and more than 1250 worked hours from the prior year. Companies with at least 50 employees in a 75 mile radius are required to adhere to the law.
Medical plan options include high-deductible plans, health savings accounts, fee-for-service plans, health maintenance organization plans and preferred provider organization plans. The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHBH) Program is one of the most valuable benefits of Federal employment, but the coverage is not automatic. You must enroll within the first 60 days of employment or wait until open season towards the end of the year. There is no retroactive coverage for your expenses prior to the effective date of enrollment. Most Federal employees earn both annual and sick leave.
A combination of these specialised staff and specialist equipment provide patient care and treatment. Sometimes this is accessed by patients in an acute way via the accident and emergency department. Patients can also enter in to the system via referral from their GP, Dentist or optician. The trust has to meet certain waiting times targets set by the government. All patients referred in to the trust must be treated within eighteen weeks of referral.
In a spend-down program, individuals are required to spend a portion of their income or resources on health care until they reach or drop below the income level specified by the state. The concept is similar to an annual deductible, except that it resets at the beginning of every month. Each month, the enrollee pays a portion of incurred medical bills, up to a certain amount, before the Medicaid fee schedule takes effect and Medicaid takes over payments. For example, a patient who has a $100 spend-down visits the physician on March 3 and is billed $75. The patient is responsible for paying the entire $75.
Organizational Analysis Overview of the Organization I have chosen to write my organizational analysis paper on the facility I am currently employed in. I was in a smaller community hospital prior to working at Methodist and in just a matter of a few months the difference is like night and day. New York Methodist Hospital is a 651-bed voluntary, non-profit hospital and serves over 35,000 inpatients each year. Another 200,000 outpatient visits and services are logged annually. The Hospital is also a major teaching hospital with 10 graduate medical education programs and four schools that provide training in allied health professions.
COBRA generally requires that group health plans sponsored by employers with 20 or more employers in the prior year offer employees and their families the opportunity for a temporary extension of health coverage under the plan (called continuous coverage) in certain instances where coverage would otherwise end.”(Health plans) Mr. Davis would be allowed to continue his coverage with COBRA because the falls under the guidelines stated above. He was terminated from a factory job where he was covered by a group health insurance and the factory has more than 100 employees. That qualifies him for
Most medical assistants work a 40 hour week. As for educational requirements although several medical assistants are hired with a high school diploma and receive on-the-job training, further education is available. Technical schools offer one-year medical assistance programs, and result in a certificate or diploma. There are three certifying bodies for medical assistants: the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA), the American Medical Technologists (AMT) and the National Health career Association (NHA). The AAMA awards the Certified Medical Assistant certification.
After a two month adjustment period, the hospital began to record data on the use of SwabKit®. A reduction of 70.4% was seen in CLABSIs in the first six months of hospital wide use. The number of infections went from 14 cases to 4 cases. At the time the study was written in May 2012, there have been 0 cases of CLABSIs since February 2012 (McCalla, et al.,
While studying the surgical patient tracer worksheet, one of the most serious deficiencies identified was the patient history and physical not being done within twenty-four hours of admission. In fact, the patient medical records were completed after more than seventy-two hours of patient admission. Documenting medical records in an appropriate time frame is an important standard in the joint commission accreditation process. The Joint Commission requires an accredited hospital to have written policies regarding timely documentation into medical records. Eighty percent of a patient’s diagnosis is done by the identification of their current and past medical histories.
Physician Shortage: Economic Concept of demand and demand shifts Roberta Mimms University of Phoenix Health Care Economics HCS 552 Amy Shoales April 23, 2012 Physician Shortage: Economic Concept of demand and demand shifts Many of us have the thought that the idea of being a physician, doing good for another individual, has such an appeal that medical schools should have a waiting list several years long. But that is not so. The world is suffering from a shortage of physicians. The Society of Critical Care Medicine, as cited by Gorman (2011), reports that the “shortage of full-time physicians will approach nearly 125,000 by 2025. It is estimated that we will need 1.7 new physicians to replace each one of our retiring physicians