Conduct additional research on Direct Primary Care
Conduct additional research on Direct Primary Care
This week, we have read about several payment models in health care. An additional model that is gaining popularity is Direct Primary Care (DPC).
Read this brief statement from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to familiarize yourself with the model: https://www.aafp.org/practice-management/payment/dpc.html (Links to an external site.)
Conduct additional research on Direct Primary Care. Create a PowerPoint presentation and voiceover to address the following:
You are presenting to your local chapter of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). Assume the role of a practice manager, and consider your audience to be other practice managers.
Provide a concise analysis of the benefits and risks of an established practice switching to the DPC model. Your analysis should be focused on the financial aspect but may include references to other aspects of a practice to support a balanced viewpoint.
Research practices that have made the switch from Fee-for-service to DPC. Highlight key points for managers to be aware of if their practice is making the switch to DPC.
Your presentation should be a minimum of eight slides, and a voiceover of your presentation is required.
Include at least three references in your presentation. References should also be listed, in APA format, on a closing slide.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.