Blue Cross and Blue Shield were created separately; Blue Cross provided coverage for hospital services, unlike Blue Shield that covered physician services. Blue cross was formed by Justin Ford Kimball in 1929; Justin Ford Kimball was also Vice President of Baylor University’s health care facilities. The first plan started in Dallas, Texas and guaranteed teachers hospital care for 21 days at the rate of $6 a year, Then later on the plan was extended to other employee groups in Dallas, and then nationally
According to the American Board of Preventive Medicine public health is a component of preventive medicine by promoting health, preventing illness and managing the health of communities and specific groups or populations. Mindfulness meditation can be applied as a primary, secondary and tertiary prevention practice in public health. Furthermore, it is estimated that approximately 90% of all illness in the United States is due to preventable conditions and poor behavioral health choices. Therefore
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSFL) Operating Services is Florida’s largest insurer, serving more than 6 million residents in total. Three trends that redefine how Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida brings value to its members are through consumer empowerment, E-business, and financial services modernization. BCBSFL holds approximately 30% of the HMO market share in Florida, which is twice the share of its nearest competitor. BCBSFL offers a BlueComplements program filled with discounts and
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has impacted the world nationally and internationally for their involvement and work with cancer, science, research, and medicine. A goal of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is through extensive research and training explore new ways to treat, cure, and control cancer on a national and worldwide level. Scientist and Researchers affiliated with MSKCC take their knowledge, investigation, and research to create clinical trials, studies and
client did not need to stay in the hospital anymore and they stop paying for the doctors and the bills. According to Bonnie Drew, a victim of a rare disease, the insurance companies can dictate what the doctors can and cannot do. She says Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance company sent her home from the hospital to die. Nathan Wilkes is the father of a little boy named Thomas, who was diagnosed with very serious Hemophilia at birth. In only 3 days, Thomas can use $47,500 worth of medicine to try to
Software Engineers are very important to the technology world today. They create software that we use every day, such as Microsoft Office, E-mail, Games, or anything that involves the use of computer systems or mobile system software’s. Designing software for the consumers takes much time and detail in order to get the software perfectly made. Depending on the company they work for, they could be designing software from little games to software that could possibly change how computer systems operate
practices and the emergence of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield (the Blue Cross and Blue shield were commonly referred to as the blues). It was noted that most hospital physicians continued to retain the Blues until 1970‘s (Kongstvedt, 2009). The pre-world
residence); Chicago, IL; Franklin, MI and Scottsdale, AZ • Rich and Susan are very passionate about University of Michigan and serve on the committee for the campaign for the University of Michigan Health System • Members of Red Sky Ranch and might have associations with: M/M Mitch Hart, M/M Andy Daly, Gen. Peter Dawkins, M/M Sam Bronfman or M/M Peter Kalkus Key Influencers / Relationships • Rich has been a director and a member of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Executive Committee
Used cars come in a variety of qualities from the worst, the lemons the cars that always are breaking down, to the very best the most reliable cars. The sellers know the quality of their cars, but suppose that the buyers cannot tell which used cars are lemons and which are of good quality. Since the sellers have more information than the buyers, this is a situational concept known as asymmetric information. This model of asymmetric information was described by the economist, George Akerlof, (Ross
The flag shows the Alberta Coat of Arms on a dark blue background. The flag is twice as long as it is wide. The shield is positioned in the center of the flag. On the top of the shield is a red St. George's Cross on a white background. Underneath there are white snow capped mountains. Behind the mountains there is a dark blue background, with rolling green hills in front. Below the mountains is a wheat field full of yellow grain. On the flag the blue represents the sky and gold or deep yellow for the
No More Pain On any single day, a person will exert magnitudes of force and pressure on all bodily joints, as well as muscles connected to those joints, by everyday activities such as walking, sitting, running, or jumping. Chiropractic care, done by a professional, is a healthy and necessary way to release the tensions and stress caused by misuse of the body. For example, poor posture causes improper alignment of the vertebral column; in order to correct the problem, a chiropractic adjustment may
History of American Medicine Final Paper PART I(a) With the creation of Medicare in 1966 in order to expand access for the elderly to the American healthcare system, the ways in which medicine and its corresponding industries were conducted were irrevocably changed. Prior to its inception, only 65% of people over 65 actually had proper health insurance, as the elderly paid three times as much for healthcare as young people (Stevens, 1998). The private medical sector had much more control over who
The following five community resources that I found are very important because they provide services to families in the city of Chicago to help them fight childhood obesity. I picked some organizations in the Humboldt Park community because they are going to be more convenient for the child and the family that I am focusing on for this project. As I mentioned in the child profile, “L” is a child who is suffering from child obesity. I think the following resources are going to help him and his family
Managed care dominates health care in the United States. It is any health care delivery system that combines the functions of health insurance and the actual delivery of care, where costs and utilization of services are controlled by methods such as gatekeeping, case management, and utilization review. Different types of managed care plans came into development by three major factors. These factors include choice of providers, different ways of arranging the delivery of services, and payment and
SWOT Analysis Strengths Brand Name: Our strong brand name is a major strength of Kaiser Permanente. Although we have do not have many established markets throughout the Southeast, customers, consumers, providers, regulators, and insurers would still recognize the value of Kaiser Permanente. The value associated with our brand name is an easily defendable qualitative factor, so competing organization would have a difficult time overcoming it. Innovative Culture: Our innovative culture would help
End in 1865 by William Booth and his wife Catherine. Initially, Booth named the association the East London Christian Mission. The name The Salvation Army developed from an occurrence on May 19 and 20. William Booth was writing a letter to his secretary George Scott Railton and said, "We are a volunteer army." Bramwell Booth heard his dad and said, "Volunteer! I'm no volunteer, I'm a regular!" Railton was told to cross out "volunteer" and substitute "salvation". The Salvation Army was designed according
Environment Analysis: Creative Confections "I've always liked to be adventurous with food, especially desserts," said Lavonne Temple, founder of Creative Confections (CC), a small and emerging specialty bakery in Jacksonville, Florida. Starting with cake and candy recipe experimentation in 2002, Temple developed a tidy little business selling scrumptious specialty cakes and candies from a home-based operation. Increasing demand for Temple's upscale homemade confections recently poised CC on the
five notched shield (clypeus). The first segment of the upper body (prothorax) and wings (elytrae) are separated by fine, carefully incised double lines around the edges and triple lines separate the wings. The legs (tibiae) are tucked underneath the body and the femora of the legs are indicated by a notch in the stone. At the body end below the wings the under body is suggested by a double row of V-shaped incised lines. The scarab has no bored hole. However, on either side under the shield are two shallow
This paper focuses on providing a summary of the efforts of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative on the Future of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine research which influenced the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” The importance of the IOM “Future of Nursing” report related to the nursing practice, nursing education and nursing workforce development will be stated. The role of state-based action coalitions and how they advance goals of the Future
The Center of Disease Control and Prevention (2013) reported that, more than 35% of U.S. adults are obese and suffer metabolic syndrome which can include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and a variety of cancers, causing the US more than hundreds of billion dollars for their medical care. It makes some wonder whether the health care Americans have chosen to support our country was the right choice. A managed health care system might not be the most efficient at times but compared to a Universal