What benefits and costs could a business expect from improving or changing the payment system?

Assume you are the chief executive officer (CEO) of a large technology-intensive hospital in a community of 200,000 people that includes two other smaller community hospitals and a wide range of physicians and other providers working in private practice. Currently, you are paid by Medicare—the federal insurance program for the elderly—for a fixed amount for every admission to your hospital and based on the severity of the patient’s needs. Physicians and other providers in your community are paid fee-for-service. The federal government has just made an offer to your community that it form an accountable care organization (ACO) that could accept a capitated annual payment for each person eligible for Medicare. How would you go about deciding whether to accept that offer? Would you want to lead that ACO or just be a part of it? Why? Would you argue against accepting the federal offer? Why or why not? How might you change the way care currently is organized in your community, given the…

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Should companies be responsible for unemployment caused by their information systems? Why or why not?

Before computerization or data analytics, how would companies find that they have made duplicate payments?

Discuss the Social Security System. Discuss when it began and the early rates. Discuss how the system designates the money for those paying the FICA tax. Discuss how inflation and other factors have affected the FICA tax rates. Discuss how you feel Social Security will help or hurt you.

What is the social discount rate?

If you are the manager of a large retail bank and you find that some customers are of low value to the company and incur high cost to serve, how could you manage this customer group? Discuss the process.

Why is starting a business to solve a problem or need important?

What is the most effective and successful sponsorship in the sports industry presently? Why?