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Assignment 2: Health Insurance and Quality
Due Week 4 and worth 150 points
Imagine that you are the clinic manager of an urgent care center. Recently, your center has seen an increase in complaints regarding long wait times, inadequate or incomplete information from staff during visits, and the relatively small number of insurance types accepted at the facility.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
- Examine at least three (3) examples of quality initiatives that could increase patient satisfaction and potentially reduce healthcare cost. Support the response with examples of the successful application your chosen quality initiatives.
- Defend your position on the decision to accept Medicare or Medicaid as potential pay sources for your urgent care center. Provide support with at least two (2) examples that illustrate your position.
- Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: HEALTH INSURANCE AND QUALITY
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Quality initiative
To improve the patient satisfaction and reduce the healthcare cost, the clinic should use
the patient satisfaction survey in understanding the problem facing when they receive their
services in the organization. This is important increasing quality improvement initiatives and
monitors the way nurses and other healthcare providers. This system will help the clinic make
quality improvement of the healthcare services leading to patient improvement. In addition, the
clinic will also manage to evaluate and monitor all potentially negative impacts. This will also
help the clinic avoid all costs associated with erroneous healthcare services.
Second, I, the clinic manager, will use the Electronic Health Record in the clinic. This
will ease the way to understand patient health informati...
