Abstract This paper presents a five-year plan describing what CMS Company needs to do to remain competitive with regard to staffing, employee development, training, and compensation. It examines issues of technological advances, globalization, diversity, E-business and ethics.
From the Paper "The CMS Company faces a number of challenges in the next five years. A number of them relate to the company's labor force. One of the more problematic developments for CMS involves the fact that the local labor market is shrinking ..."
Tags: five-Year HR Forcast local labor market, local labor costs, workforce bilingual
Abstract The paper discusses the beginnings of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). The paper describes the agencies' significant role and function in relation to public health. The paper discusses how every citizen of the United States has the right to apply for Medicare or Medicaid. The paper looks at the structure of the organization and provides a breakdown of the financial disbursement of funds in the CMS. The paper also offers a diagram that represents the communication between federal, state and local levels of the government in connection with the CMS.
From the Paper "The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) is the largest health care service provider in the United States. Since its beginnings the reliance on CMS by the American public has continued to grow, especially since the majority of Americans do not possess health insurance in the country. As the President and Congress continue to add programs to the CMS the significance of the agency continues to impact American society. Because of its multifunctional nature there are many throughout the United States that believe that the CMS should evolve into a national health care program, ending the concern for a national health care system in the country. However, the structure of the organization has suggested that there is not sufficient control of accountability and that the CMS would have to be restructured in order for it to meet the demands of such an alteration in its existence."
Tags: national, health, insurance, coverage, social, security, funding, communication
Abstract This paper assesses the value of change management in the profitable operations of organizations. The paper provides various definitions of organizational change management and discusses the necessary process dimensions and the elements and the principles of change management. The paper further discusses the possible outcomes of a good change management, as well as the possible obstacles. The paper focuses primarily on the example of Northumbria University, which is pursuing a change management strategy in its entire operations to cope with a government policy that affected its principal source of income.
Outline:
1.0. Introduction
1.0.1. Change
1.0.2. Change & Project
1.0.3. Change Management
1.0.4. Change Management Concepts
2.0. Perceived Problem
2.0.1. Higher Education
2.0.2. Differences between a Polytechnic and a University
2.0.3. Northumbria: Past, Present and Future
2.0.4. From Polytechnic to University
2.0.5. Options
2.0.6. Outcomes of Change
3.0. Theoretical Concepts
3.0.1. Perceptions on Change Management
3.0.2. Types of Change
3.0.3. Principles of Change
3.0.4. Good Change Management
3.0.5. Changes in CM Concepts
3.0.6. Drivers of Change
3.0. Test of Theoretical Concepts
4.0. Conclusions
From the Paper "The task of change management is to bring order to a messy situation (14). Essentially, it seeks to magnify and systematically handle all known and unknown elements in the business environment that could affect the efficient and profitable operation of an organization (13). In most cases, change management involves a problem, which is addressed by transformation, reduction or application. By transformation, the management task is to change the situation from a "problem state" to a "solved state," while the goal in reduction is to lessen the magnitude of the problem to blunt its effects on the organization. In application, the organization calls in specialists to transform, reduce or eliminate the problem (21). There is always the option of doing nothing and leaving things as they are but management scholars have consistently and strongly questioned this course of action (12)."
Tags: organizational change management, higher education, polytechnic university, Northumbria, types of change, CM
Abstract This paper uses the example of the Paltry Packaging company to illustrate the functions and use of a content management system. The paper describes the different types of content management systems, the advantages of content management systems, the various features of a content management system as well as how such a system can best be integrated into a business. The paper also looks at Enterprise Content Management Systems and explains why this application would be beneficial to the Paltry Packaging company.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Types of CMS Features of CMS Costs vs. Benefits
Procuring and Developing CMS Choosing CMS Seamless Integration with Existing Legacy Applications
Data and Transmission Security Requirements/Mandates
Company Core Competency
Cost Structuring
Access Requirements
Existing Infrastructure
Implementation Activities
IT Staff and Resources
Return on Investment
Total Cost of Ownership
Conclusion for Paltry Packaging
From the Paper "A Content Management System (CMS) makes it simple for employees of a business such as Paltry Packaging to sustain and develop their own website pages. A CMS utilizes software and a database to administer and manage website content. Once an employee or customer makes a request to the website, the CMS chooses the accurate information and presents it in a custom interface website template."
Abstract This paper explains that Medicare, which is the health insurance program by the United States Federal government, provides medical treatment to qualified recipients and is run by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Part D is the new outpatient prescription drug benefit. The author points out that, because the enactment of Medicare Part D makes the United States Federal Government the biggest client of pharmaceuticals in the U.S. and possibly the world, drug development and approval process will be notably affected by this law through the direct involvement of CMS in application reviews. The paper stresses that, by using a system of risk corridors, which compares actual incurred drug benefit costs to estimated costs submitted in bids, Medicare limits the profits and losses of Part D drug plans.
Table of Contents
What is Medicare?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Its Influence on the Health Care Industry
Economics
How CMS Affects the Operation and Finance of Medicare Part D
From the Paper "CMS is also working with other health agencies such as the National Cancer Institute with regards to research and development of drugs. A new policy gives them additional powers to pay for off-label uses of a new drug or device, so long as patients are in involve in studies to gather new data that may be beneficial to future patients. This policy however raised certain concerns from industry players as to fears the agency will reject compensation of new cures or procedures unless the post-approval studies are paid for by sponsors. Nonetheless, guidelines have already been drafted to address this concern."
Abstract This paper aims to provide an understanding of the controlled studies using contingency management (CM) in the substance abuse field and community reinforcement approach (CRA). The paper further aims to emphasize the studies that incorporate CM with a community reinforcement approach (CRA). This paper offers a critical review of the literature with an eye toward identifying important and unresolved theoretical and research questions.
Outline:
Objective
Background of the Study
Literature Review
Non-Voucher Contingency Management
Community Reinforcement Approach and Contingency Management Procedure Combined Treatment
Discussion and Indications for future Research
From the Paper "Findings of the study state that: "the addition of abstinence-based CM to standard care resulted in greater retention in treatment, a higher number of drug-negative samples submitted and longer durations of abstinence." The CM activity condition was found to be "less efficacious" than the CM abstinence condition in relation to retention in treatment and as to "some drug abuse outcomes measures". Petry et al states that: "These data contrast with those of Iguchi et al (1997) who found that CM treatment had reinforced activity completion resulted in greater reductions in drug use than a CM treatment that reinforced abstinence directly." (Petry, et al 2006) Stated as well is that "although an activity-based CM intervention was not particularly efficacious in this study when applied alone, reinforcement for compliance with goal-related activities is efficacious when applied in conjunction with reinforcement for abstinence."(Ibid) In the present study Petry et all states that "few overall differences were noted between the two CM conditions in terms of changes in ASI scores over the treatment period, and the lack of effects may reflect the individualized nature of activity selection. Some patients chose to work on employment goals, others legal goals, and still others family-related activities." (Ibid) It was also found that the "prize-based CM intervention for abstinence was efficacious, but effects on drug abuse outcomes were confounded by differences in retention rates." (Ibid)"
Abstract The paper describes the painting as oil on canvas that was donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario by the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 1988. This expressionistic painting measures 90.8 x 61 cm and the figure of Dr. Stadelmann is presented in a naturalistic but stylized manner. The paper explains that the pre-iconographic level of analysis, the level defined by Panofsky and cited in Schneider Adams in "The Methodologies of Art" as primary, or natural subject matter, gives an object of a standing male figure.
A look at the guidelines provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations for CAP patients.
Abstract This paper examines the literature concerning the hypothesis that the consolidated standards provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (CMS/JCAHO) on the subject of proper antibiotic selection for sufferers of community-acquired pneumonia are the most optimal standards available.
From the Paper "According the website for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the guidelines provided by the program demand a considerable intensification of stringency for the diagnosis of microorganism behaviors in the treatment of CAP patients as well as in the specification of antibiotic identification methods to be used with a central focus. (CMS, 1) This means that participating hospital facilities and medical association must address procedural gaps between guidelines and previous standards in order to adhere to the collective standards now considered relevant. The gaps present at the time of the initiation of these guidelines illustrate the positive transition toward greater specificity and diagnostic effort being impressed upon all facilities and agencies in question. It is clear through comparative examination that the new consolidated CMS/JCAHO guidelines are an appropriate response to the need for more accurate design in the application of favored antibiotic treatment programs. "
Abstract The paper relates that the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 has positively expanded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)' focus to preventing disease and assisting beneficiaries with managing their health. The paper further relates that smoking, obesity and the prevalence of sedentary lifestyles in the country are the leading causes of death. The paper then discusses how the Medicare Act improved the Medicare program to cover a number of services to prevent many such health problems, but points out that patients' actual utilization of what is offered is relatively low.
From the Paper "Over the next few years, the United States will be experiencing the first wave of the demographic shift as the oldest segment of the baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, begin to turn sixty-five. Population reports estimate the number of people the age of sixty-five will double from 36 million in 2003 to more than 72 million in 2030. In spite of the negative trends in lifestyle management, people seem to be living longer lives due to positive changes and advancements in medicine, public health, and nutrition throughout the latter part of the twentieth century (Lapin, 2006)."
