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• Explain the importance of provider contracts in maintaining a provider network. Your initial post should be at least 300 words. Support your response with a minimum of two credible sources that were published in the last five years. Guided Response: Select two common issues or provider obligations presented by your peers and contrast the differences between your selection and your peer’s response. Be sure to support your response by citing at least one credible source to validate your assertions. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread. The U.S. healthcare system has been criticized for high-cost, inefficacy, and issues on quality. P4P is an approach used to provide incentives to physicians and health care provider organizations to achieve improved performance by increasing quality of care and reducing costs. • Define the challenges in designing a Pay for Performance (P4P) program.
• Discuss the impacts of P4P on provider payment reform. • Describe the health care providers’ reactions to Value-Based Purchasing Programs. • Determine the benefits of P4P on patients. • Must be three to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. • Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. • Must use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed, and/or other credible sources in addition to the course text. The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment. Be sure to integrate your research rather than simply inserting it. • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined here and here.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment. In preparing for this discussion, read Chapters 8 and 16 (p 338) of the course text. • Define disease management (DM) programs. • Describe the impacts of DM programs on healthcare quality and cost. • Identify challenges in DM programs. • Examine a successful DM program from real life and address (a) What is its accreditation status? Why is this program successful? Can it be replicated in other settings? Your initial post should be at least 300 words. Support your response with a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published in the last five years. Guided Response: Challenge your peers to think about the solutions to the identified challenges in DM programs. Be sure to support your response by citing at least one scholarly source to validate your assertions. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread. In preparing for this discussion, read Chapter 13 of the course text. • Step 1. Research a prevention program from a health plan. • Step 2. Criticize the selected health plan prevention program using TABLE 13-1 Components of a Strong Health Plan Prevention Program as the guideline. • Step 3. Propose two recommendations for improving the weaknesses of the selected program. Your initial post should be at least 300 words. Support your response with a minimum of two credible sources that were published in the last five years. Guided Response: Compare the differences and/or similarities between your and your peer’s recommendations for improvement. Be sure to support your response by citing at least one credible source to validate your assertions. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
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