Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Accurate coding and billing are essential to a health care facility and to a physician’s financial survival. Coding is a complex task that ties to charges and revenue generation. Failure to capture all charges associated with a patient encounter can result in significant revenue loss. Medical necessity also plays a vital role in the contract with the facility or physician in terms of receiving payment from the third party payer (e.g., an insurance company).

Part 1

For this Discussion Board, you will define medical necessity, and you will describe the criteria to determine it.

Part 2

Once the patient has an established diagnosis and the services and procedures have been ordered, you will code out this information and place it on the claim for payment.

It is important for health care professionals to understand this process to receive accurate reimbursement.

For this part of the discussion, you will be identifying the coding systems that are utilized to support the diagnosis, services, and procedures.

List and discuss the coding system that is utilized to code out the patient’s conditions or diagnosis. Provide an example of a diagnosis with the appropriate code as an example, and respond to the following questions:

• What is the coding system replacing the diagnostic system?
• Will it be implemented this year? Explain your answer.

Next, identify what coding system is utilized to capture the services and procedures that the patient has received (both levels). List an example of a service or procedure with the appropriate code as an example, and respond to the following questions:

• Why is it important to assign the correct codes to the diagnoses, services, and procedures that a patient has received?
• What are the repercussions of submitting incorrect coding and billing errors to the third party payers?

EACH QUESTION MUST BE A MIN OF 250 WORDS IN APA FORMAT/PLEASE USE RESOURCE LISTED BELOW/ and in text citations APA format. Also use at least one other source as a reference for each question 

1. Paraphrase what the text reveals about gender, class and race as they relate to crime.

 2. Describe some of the biological and psychological perspectives of explaining crime.

3. Summarize using information from the text how social control theory applies to delinquent behavior.

4. Critique middle-class delinquency’s relationship to gangs relative to the theories discussed about this topic in the text

Resource

CMRJ303 E-book

Criminology, 8/e

Freda Adler, Rutgers University – Newark
Gerhard O. W. Mueller, Rutgers University – Newark (Deceased)
William S. Laufer, University of Pennsylvania

ISBN- ISBN-10: 0078026423 | ISBN-13: 978-0078026423

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Copyright year: 2013

According to article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution, Congress has the exclusive power to declare war. Yet, the last time Congress did declare war — June of 1942 — was against the Axis-aligned countries of Hungry, Bulgaria, and Romania.

Since WWII, the United States has participated in a number of military conflicts resulting in scores of thousands of American casualties, yet all without a formal declaration of war on the part of Congress. In practice, Congress has ceded the power to make war to the executive branch.

Beginning with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, provide a synopsis of major instances of this development and discuss its pros and cons. Do you think the power to make war should reside in the legislative branch or the executive branch? Make sure to provide reasons supported by historical fact to support your arguments.

Remember to bring in at least one authoritative source from your own research in addition to any information you provide from Hallock. The minimum word count for your initial post is 200 words, not counting citations. The response posts, to score at the highest level, need to engage the other students’ ideas and bring in new facts to advance the discussion. The minimum word count per response post is 100 words.

Class Power and Inequality; Final paper Option (200 points)

Report due 12/7 via Canvas by 11AM (5-6 pages; 200 points)

This assignment is to write critical overview of a topic related inequality (race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.). The goal of the assignment is to summarize a social problem or issue related inequality, power, or class in US society or abroad. You should find several sources to summarize the key features of the selected urban problem or issue.

In this paper, choosing a topic that is interesting and researchable is vital. This topic should be specific enough that it is focused and coherent yet broad enough to be able to find others who have been interested in the same topic. A good way to determine if your paper topic will work is to formulate your topic as a research question. Examples of excellent topics/questions might be “How does racial segregation in urban/suburban schools affect student outcomes?”; “How has the growth of finance affected income inequality in affluent countries?”; “How has the War on Drugs created racial and class inequalities in American society?” or “How do social programs provided by the government and social organizations help and/or hurt the poor?” If you are unsure about the quality of your topic, please email me.

The paper should be divided into five sections marked off by headings (Ex: Introduction). In the first section, the Introduction, you should briefly describe your research topic/question, why you decided to research the topic, and why this topic is relevant to society. You should also give a very brief overview of the literature you will examine in the body of the paper. In the Key Issues section, you should go into more detail on the topic that you chose and make connections between the different readings and research found on your topic. A good way to approach this section is to identify the main causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the problem that you are examining. A major challenge to this assignment is to remain concise in order to not go too far over the page limit. You should have identified at least 5 sources for the report. All sources should be properly cited in the paper using ASA (or a similar format) and included in the references section. In the Evaluation section, you should briefly evaluate the literature you have examined. Questions to answer include: What evidence do you find convincing? What evidence is not as convincing and why? What new questions do you have? In the Conclusion section, you should briefly restate your research topic/question, briefly summarize the literature and how you evaluated, and then state what you feel you have learned from writing this paper. The final section is the References section.

This 5-6 page paper should be written in Times New Roman 12-point font, double or 2-point line spacing, and standard margins (1 inch).

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE AT 11AM and not 11pm as usual.

Topical Research Paper rubric

Report, 200 points (Due 12/7 by 11am)

30pts: Introduction- Do you properly introduce your topic? You should give a basic description of what you will be discussing in this paper. Also explain why you chose to write what you did and why it is relevant to society.

40pts: Key Issues- What does the literature you have found say about your topic? Do you make connections between the different readings? To achieve the maximum possible grade, you should interweave the discussion of your different sources instead of having separate paragraphs for each one.

40pts: Evaluation- You should address the following topics: What do you make of the evidence in the sources? Are their arguments sound or do they have logical errors?What new questions do you have?

30pts: Conclusion- Do you summarize and conclude the paper appropriately? Do you restate your research question or thesis? What have you learned from writing the paper?

20pts: Overall organization- Does your paper have a logical flow? Do you jump around all over the place or speak about one issue (or at least interwoven issues) at a time?

20pts: Grammar- Do you write with proper sentence structure, spelling, and word agreement?

20pts: Citations and References-Do you have at least 5 sources? Do you properly acknowledge them?