Good afternoon Ms. Siskind, Thank you for providing me with the conditional offer for the Deputy Assessor position with the City of Southfield. I have reviewed the offer and have a couple of questions as follows: Could medical insurance be effective as of the first date of employment similar to the dental and vision insurance instead of waiting until the first day of the month following the date of hire as I am concerned about a gap in coverage for my family? Could I start at the 5 to 10 years of service vacation leave bracket to match the three weeks of vacation I receive from my current employer? Could I please receive documentation regarding the various age/years of service combinations and final average compensation (FAC) for the defined
Membership Services (MSD) at Kaiser Permanente used to be a modest department of sixty staff. However, over the past few years the department has doubled in size, creating minor departmental reorganization. In addition the increase of departmental staffing, several challenges became apparent. The changes included primary job function, as well as the introduction of new network system software which slowed down the processes of other departments. These departments included Claims (who pay the bills for service providers outside of the Kaiser Permanente network), and Patient Business Services (who send invoices to members for services received within Kaiser Permanente). Due to the unforeseen challenges created by the system upgrade, it was decided that MSD would process the calls for both of the affected departments. Unfortunately, this created a catastrophic event of MSD receiving numerous phone calls from upset members—who had received bills a year after the service had been provided. The average Monday call volume had risen from 1,800 to 2,600 calls per day. The average handling time for each phone call had risen as well—from an acceptable standard of 5.6 minutes to an unfavorable 7.2 minutes. The department continued to be kept inundated with these types of calls for the two years that these changes have been effect.
This project combines pay services from participating departments and agencies at the Public Service Pay Centre in Miramichi, New Brunswick. Compensation advisors in departments were given the option to move to Miramichi, but most did not. Many new staff were hired and trained for the Centre. There are some organizations like CRA and CBSA that are being serviced by their own internal departmental compensation advisors instead of those in Miramichi, but are still using the Phoenix system.
Integrated Managed Care Organization- The organization is properly aligned for the primary driver being cost cutting services. Since all entities within the organization are responsible and affected by any expenses endured on any entity being unfavorable or favorable, the foundation serves as a primary motivator to reduce costs at all levels. This alignment eliminates any financial gains from driving high utilization of services or higher intensity services within the organization. Ultimately, this system allows the physician medical group to drive patient care, being responsible for the clinical care decisions as opposed to health plan making those decisions as designed in other organizations. This is the preferable model for Medicaid
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...r the condition to be covered, or be charged extraordinary sums for premiums. The employee must not go without coverage for more than 63 days to avoid the pre-existing condition clauses in a policy. In reality, the government should make Medicaid benefits available to the newly unemployed or low-wage earners due to their now “low-income” status. The reality is that even if the government did make Medicaid benefits available, the state of the economy has caused many states to reduce Medicaid benefits for budgetary reasons.
Compensation will play a role in The Fit Stop because of its long hours, need for some skilled workers, and because all of the employees are full-time. Determine the Compensation Mix: The Fit Stop employs three different levels of employees: manager, physiotherapist/kinesiologist, and salespeople. Because each of these different positions requires a different level of education and experience, it is assumed that these positions will also come with different compensation options. Base pay will differ between the three levels of employees, beginning with the managers receiving the highest level of base pay (due to their higher level of education/experience) and salespeople receiving the lowest level of base pay. The physiotherapist and the kinesiologist will receive base pay somewhere in between.
The Affordable Care Act was a critical step towards universal healthcare. Twenty-nine million Americans are still without health care coverage. Expanding the accessibility to the ACA and reducing the cost is necessary. The U.S. spends more on health care per person than any other advanced nation in the world. Reducing the complexity of the tax credit program is the first step to improving the ACA. The premium tax credit is a refundable tax credit designed to help eligible individuals and families with low or moderate income afford health insurance purchased through the Health Insurance Marketplace. There are requirements made for the Marketplace by the Department of Health and Human Services that have to do with whether you are eligible or not
Deciding which pay form to use when compensating employees is extremely important to a company. Many things are taken into consideration: labor costs, the correlation between performance and pay, customer service, and the ability to attract and retain employees which is extremely important to FastCat’s need for innovation. We believe a single pay structure coincides with our single based plan for the organization. We want to keep things simple and understandable to all areas of the organization. This strategy will allow employees to understand how their performance and the performance of others relate to the success of the company through specific measures. It is also important that the strategies align with the objectives of FastCat. We beli...
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave and job protection for childbirth, adoption or foster care; to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, or parent; or for an employee’s own serious illness (Cañas & Sondak, 2011). It also requires that their group health benefits remain intact during the unpaid leave of absence. The employee must have worked for the employer for at least a year and must have earned 1,250 hours of service during the previous 12 months ((Cañas & Sondak, 2011, pg. 70).
Health Care workers are constantly faced with legal and ethical issues every day during the course of their work. It is important that the health care workers have a clear understanding of these legal and ethical issues that they will face (1). In the case study analysed key legal and ethical issues arise during the initial decision-making of the incident, when the second ambulance crew arrived, throughout the treatment and during the transfer of patient to the hospital. The ethical issues in this case can be described as what the paramedic believes is the right thing to do for the patient and the legal issues control what the law describes that the paramedic should do in this situation (2, 3). It is therefore important that paramedics also
According to IAS 19 employee Benefits (amended 2011), it outlines the accounting requirement for employee benefits fits and long term benefits such as service leave. The standard establishes the principle that the cost of providing employee benefits should be recognized in the period in which the benefit is earned by the employee rather than when it is paid or payable.
The concept of Health Insurance and managed health care the inventions of the twentieth century that were started as prepaid health care. The early insurance concept was merely a way for people to pay medical bills not a way of protecting individual financial assets as the case is today. Overall the health care industry has endured significant changes since its inception.
Johnson, Sam T. "Plan your organization’s reward strategy through pay for performance dynamics: Compensation & Benefits Review 30, Number 3: (May/June 1998): 67-72
When speaking with an at-fault party’s insurance agent after an accident, it is easy to get the impression that the representatives are there to help you. However, in reality, that agent is looking for every opportunity to decline or minimize your claim in order to save their company money, as every seasoned Corona plaintiff lawyer can attest.
(c) 16 days for every twelve months of continuous service with the same employer if he has been employed by that employer for a period of 5 years or more; and if he has not completed 12 months of continuous service with the same employer during the year in which his contract of service terminates, his entitlement to paid annual leave shall be in direct proportion to the number of completed months of service: