Week 4 Healthcare Payment Systems APA Style Question Part 1 Discussion Prompt 1-3 Paragraphs Complete the Week 4 discussion prompt. What is the difference between the reimbursement cycle in most healthcare facilities and the coding process in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes or home health? Support your ideas with at least one scholarly source other than your text, and use terminology you learned this week. Cite and reference your sources using APA Style. Part 2 (Please Separate this part to a different Word Document) Week 4 Assignment: Mini Paper on Healthcare Business Structure and Payments Objective: Apply knowledge of business structure and payment systems. Choose one of the business types discussed last week and create a fictitious healthcare organization. Think about whether the business would be a sole proprietorship, a partnership, etc., and how patients might pay for services. Submit a paper about the organization, including its structure, the insurance and payment types accepted, and the patient mix. Keep in mind that even though the business is fictitious, all elements must work together realistically so that it could actually function. The business structure types are: Sole proprietor partnershipLimited liability companyLimited liability partnershipC corporation, S corporation, or not-for-profit corporationProfessional corporation Patient mix refers to patient age ranges, types of treatment required, and, importantly, how the patient pays for the services such as: Out-of-pocket insuranceMedicareMedicaidTricareVeterans administration Below is an example of a fictitious healthcare organization description. Begin your paper with this information and then elaborate and explain how all of the pieces would function together to keep the business running. Campbell Long-Term Care is a not-for-profit sole proprietorship facility. The building has 60 beds, and is split into two sections. In one part of the building, the facility takes patients who are in rehabilitation under private insurance or out-of-pocket. There are also ten patients who received outpatient rehabilitation under Medicare Part B. The other half of the building is reserved for senior patients needing long-term care services who are mainly covered under Medicare Part A. Some patients also have private insurance or pay out-of-pocket. The building is specialized to provide ventilator machines, a service that is covered under Medicare Part A, for patients who require that service. Other examples could describe an OB/GYN practice, or a children’s pediatric group. Submit a one- to two-page paper in APA Style, including a title page and a reference list. You must cite and reference at least two sources. You may use your textbook as a source. You will also create a Panopto video summarizing and explaining your business (not reading your paper) to upload for your week 5 discussion board. Look ahead to the discussion board for details, and plan your time accordingly so that you can post your video on time! *****(Below is just for FYI, I will be posting next week)***** Week 5 Assignment: Filing Insurance Claims Infographic Objective: Teach employees of a hospital billing and coding department how to accurately file a Medicare insurance claim. Instructions After you read the chapters assigned this week, create an infographic on the topic of filing insurance claims to present to new employees of a hospital billing and coding department. In turn, the employees will use the same information to answer billing questions from community members. The information should be presented in a way that is easy for community members to follow, but it must also be accurate and thorough. Do not oversimplify to the point of losing valuable information. Use APA Style. You must cite and reference at least one source on your infographic. Submit your assignment as a PDF. 8 Helpful Resources for Creating Beautiful Infographics Visit this website to explore popular infographic tools. You do not need to purchase anything. Many resources include free trials or free limited versions. Review the terms carefully so that you are able to download and save your work.

Literature Search, Part IOne of the more important questions you will need to ask and answer for yourself as you develop your research study is: “Which qualitative research approach best fits my research question?” You may be able to reframe your research question to fit more than one qualitative approach; generally, though, one of the available approaches is likely to fit better than the others once you have a well-defined question. The only way to make this determination is to develop a familiarity with different approaches.In this Discussion, you will conduct a literature review of your topic area, focusing your choice on a research study that uses one of the qualitative approaches covered this week.Looking for a particular kind of qualitative article on your topic may be more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack. Do not hesitate to broaden your search to incorporate related phenomena or different target groups in order to find a study.Go to the Walden Library for tips and strategies for efficient searching.Make sure you get the complete citation of the article, as well as the .pdf, because your Instructor will want to review the article.Be aware that your posting will first require an extensive article analysis. What you post is a summary of your work, not the entire analysis. This is good practice for summarizing and evaluating research for your capstone.To prepare for this Discussion:Review the reading materials about the different approaches in this week’s Learning Resources.Conduct your own literature search to find a published study that represents one of the approaches.Review the following resources before proceeding with your own article review:Document: R8360 Guidelines for Reading and Evaluating Qualitative Research Articles (PDF)Document: Example of How to Read and Evaluate a Qualitative Research Article (PDF)By Day 3Contribute a 3-paragraph Discussion post in which you respond to the following:Summarize the characteristics of the approach of the research article you chose during your literature search.Summarize the research article, including the citation and sufficient information for your classmates and Instructor to locate the article.Present a short critique of that article based on the “R8360 Guidelines for Reading and Evaluating Qualitative Research Articles” document.Required ReadingsPatton, M. Q. (2015). Qualitative research & evaluation methods: Integrating theory and practice (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Chapter 3, “Variety of Qualitative Inquiry Frameworks: Paradigmatic, Philosophical, and Theoretical Orientations” (pp. 85–168)Chapter 4, “Practical and Actionable Qualitative Applications” (pp. 169–242)Basic Qualitative ResearchBowers, B. J., Fibich, B., & Jacobson, N. (2001). Care-as-service, care-as-relating, care-as-comfort: Understanding nursing home residents’ definitions of quality. The Gerontologist, 41(4), 539–545. Retrieved from http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/Care-as-Service, Care-as-Relating, Care-as-Comfort Understanding Nursing Home Residents' Definitions of Quality by Bowers, B.; Fibich, B.; Jacobson, N., in The Gerontologist, Vol. 41/Issue 4. Copyright 2001 by Oxford University Press - Journals, The Gerontological Society of America. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press - Journals, The Gerontological Society of America via the Copyright Clearance Center.