Medicare Patients—Benefits and Costs

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Assignment 2: Medicare Patients—Benefits and Costs

Assess the differences in benefits and costs which are available to Medicare patients based upon the patent selecting either the “Traditional” Medicare program or Medicare Part C (Advantage Plan). Once a patient makes a choice, is he or she locked into the choice?

  • Evaluated at least two valuable elements to both programs and two negative elements to both programs.
  • Demonstrate which program would be more attractive to a physician and to a hospital as well as why.
  • Discuss Capitation and evaluate if either program reimburses using a capitation model.

Submission Details:

  • Submit your answers in a 5- to 7-page Microsoft Word document.
  • By Tuesday, March 7, 2017, submit your work to the W5 Assignment 2 Dropbox. Cite any sources you use in APA format on a separate page.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points
Assessed the differences in benefits and costs available to patients selecting either “Traditional” Medicare or Medicare Part C, and specified whether or not patients are locked into the choice.

50
Evaluated at least two valuable and two negative elements of both programs.

50
Demonstrates which program would be more attractive to physicians and to hospitals and explained why.

60
Evaluated whether or not either program reimburses using a capitation model. The evaluation includes a discussion of Capitation.

50

Communication

Use of tone, word choice, audience, transitions, and progression of ideas.

10

Mechanics

Followed conventions of spelling and grammar throughout. Ensured that errors are infrequent and do not interfere with comprehension.

10

APA Elements

Correctly used citations, references, and structural formatting, including such elements as title page, running head, page numbers, introduction, headings (as appropriate), and conclusion.

20
Total:

250

PLEASE THE REFERENCE PAGE CITATION CANNOT BE OLDER THAN 2012

 
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