Health care fraud is a form of white collar crime. It involves filing illegitimate health care claims to turn an illicit profit. The 3 major laws that protect against healthcare fraud are the Anti-kickback statute, Stark, and the False Claims Act. From the readings and independent research, find one (1) specific real life legal case example of how kickback arrangements would violate the Stark Law. […]

Instructions The Steppingstone Foundation: Expanding to New Geographies While Maintaining High-Quality ResultsAccording to the Bridgespan Group (2004): The Steppingstone Foundation has generated impressive results with students in the Boston area but has had a difficult time exporting its model to another city. Insufficient local fundraising, unclear leadership, and disappointing results plagued the pilot expansion. The organization has scaled back its plans for geographic expansion and […]

Increasing the levels of automation in systems presents several challenges, including that of the degree of coupling between the human agent and the machine or software agents. As system complexity escalates, the design tends toward designating either the human or the machine to direct the decision processes. In this sense, human-automation coordination designs are limited by the mindset that technology and people are independent components. […]

1             Initiate, Define, and Organize Your Project              Establish the project organization, define project parameters, and plan the project office and framework.             This week, you are defining and organizing your project. This is the first step in analyzing your concept by gathering information needed for all the project documents that are created during the project management process. Often, an organization will require months to complete this […]

Overview: In this journal, you can ask any questions that you have about the feedback from previous milestone submissions or about the final project submission. This journal assignment will help you with the recommendation portion of the final project. Upon reviewing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website (https://www.cms.gov/), as well as your Milestone One and Milestone Two assignments, you will gather information […]

Guidelines for organization: You are the director of respiratory therapy at a large regional medical center.  There is an 85 year old, female, Hispanic patient in the adult intensive care unit. The admitting diagnosis for the patient is “stroke.”   Prior to admission the patient had a history of heart and pulmonary problems, and lung cancer (successfully treated by surgery and radiation 10 years ago).  Tests […]

 Answer the following questions, Be sure to number your answers, so they correspond to the questions.  Each answer to each question should be at least one paragraph or more. Answers may come from only two sources, your textbook and your mind. No work should be submitted from the Internet or other sources. See the Sample Assignments for Questions and Essays folder for an example of […]

 Assignment 4.1 Special Occasion Speech Outline Due Week 8: 45 points 1) Select either Topic A or Topic B for your special occasion speech. o Topic A: Who Inspires You? | Deliver a speech of introduction in which you introduce a person who inspires you. o Topic B: Employee of the Month | You have been given an award for “Employee of the Month” and […]

Final Project: The Self-Modification Project. One of the primary goals of this course is to better understand the impact that daily lifestyle and habits may have upon overall health and wellness. Consistent with this goal, each student will begin by completing a personal exploration or assessment of the challenges to personal wellness (smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol use, stress modification, etc). Based upon this initial exploration […]

Topic Yinscape and Yanngsearch Subject Area Discussion chapter No.of pages/Wordcount 2 pages Urgency 2 to 4 hours Citation Style APA Style Assignment Details The case of Yinscape and Yanngsearch was designed to provide minimal information on this merger/acquisition. Re-read the case study and imagine the shape and spirit of a newly-merged, cross-national company. You are to assume the role of Yinscape’s CEO. In this role, […]