MN507: Unit 4 Assignment – Financial models of reimbursement

 

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Assignment Details

 

Course Outcome covered in this Assignment:

 

MN507-2: Analyze financial models of reimbursement and their effects on patients and health care providers.

 

Directions

 

For this Assignment, you will distinguish between Medicare and Medicaid. Your paper must include the following topics:

 

Provide a brief history of both Medicare and Medicaid.

Define the populations that they are intended to serve.

Determine whether your state has expanded Medicaid.

Articulate the reasons that states choose not to participate in Medicaid expansion.

Analyze your role in your specialized area of nursing practice when interfacing with Medicare and/or Medicaid recipients.

The word count for your paper, excluding the title page and references page, will be 800–1200 words. You must include a minimum of (5) different scholarly references.

 

Assignment Requirements

 

Before finalizing your work, you should:

 

be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);

consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and

utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Your writing Assignment should:

 

follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);

be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;

display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and

use 7th edition APA formatting and citation style.

 

MN507 Reading List

Unit 2

Journal Readings

Please retrieve and read the following Journal article from the University Library. Articles

can be located through a search in the CINAHL database, OVID database, University

Library (links to these are located under the Student Resources in Course Resources), or by

using the link at the end of the reference if provided.

Yamashita, T., Carr, D. C., & Brown, J. S. (2014). Initial exploration of newly implemented

public health policy using geographic information systems: The case of a U.S. Silver Alert

program. Journal of Health & Human Services Administration, 37(3), 378–404.