Category: Public administration

Please read the case analysis “Managing the rollout of Healthcare.gov” at the end of Chapter 6. Answer the following questions.
– Analyze the HealthCare.gov rollout process in terms of its political rationality and technical rationality.
– Consider each of the counterfactual situations posed. Assume that all other aspects are held constant except for the alternative specified:
a. What, if any, details of the case would you expect to change as a result of the alternative condition?
b. Do you expect the outcome would have changed? On the basis of your analysis, to what extent was the alternative factor a causal mechanism in producing the outcome that actually occurred?
– Consider the make-or-buy question in the context of HealthCare.gov. Should the design, rollout, and implementation of HealthCare.gov have been contracted out or kept in-house? Use these frameworks described in the chapter to analyze this question:
a. Inherently governmental activities
b. Complete/incomplete contracts
c. Principal-agent
d. Transaction costs

Write a 3-page reflection using APA7 citation from the following sources including 1 more additional source of your choice. Please ensure you answer the following questions. 
Overview
This assignment focuses on the following quadrants of Emotional Intelligence and asks you to reflect on them as a public sector institution leader. 
Self-awareness: Making sound decisions requires an individual to understand how their behavior affects judgment, productivity, attitudes, and more. The best leaders are self-aware of their emotions, weaknesses, limitations, and strengths. For example, a manager who isn’t a good delegator but is self-aware of that shortcoming can consciously delegate tasks more and trust the people to whom those tasks have been assigned.Internal awareness isn’t eliminating emotions from decisions but rather allowing them to work with rationality so they don’t subconsciously affect judgment.
Self-Management: Leaders who make impulsive decisions or fail to control their emotions and lash out can quickly lose their subordinates’ respect. Those unregulated moments can undo any rapport you’ve built — and getting it back is never easy. Emotional intelligence breeds self-regulation that prevents moments individuals wish they could take back. 
Increased empathy: Emotional intelligence argues that emotionally intelligent individuals understand their emotional states better, allowing them to gauge others’ emotions more accurately. We learned empathy in this course, which places us in our employees’ shoes, leading to more thoughtful and deliberate decisions. 
Collaborative communication: Emotional intelligence allows individuals to understand their coworkers. As such, emotionally intelligent leaders can immediately pick up the room’s tone or group and speak honestly and sincerely to match that tone or mitigate unresolved tension.
Questions
From your lens as a public sector leader and from the perspective of an emotionally intelligent leader, what actions do you take when you become aware that your emotions emerge? 
From your lens as a public sector leader and the perspective of emotional intelligence, how do you cognitively manage feelings when you become aware of your emotions? 
As a public sector leader, and from the emotional intelligence perspective, how do you express empathy with your employees? 
As a public sector leader and from the perspective of emotional intelligence, how do you manage relationships within your organization? 
As a public sector leader and from the perspective of emotional intelligence. What are your thoughts on forgiveness? How do you manage to forgive supervisors and employees? 
Required Sources:
Leading at the Edge.
Perkins, Dennis, NT, Holtman, Margaret P., Kesssler, Paul R. and McCarthy, Catherine.
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Goleman, Daniel, Boyatzis, Richard and McKee, Annie

You have been asked to give a presentation on ethical issues to human service professionals in your community. Prepare a presentation that is appropriate for an audience of human service professionals and covers the following topics:
Discuss the three most important ethical boundaries as they apply to trauma that you think human service professionals need to be aware of and why.
Provide at least one example for each of the requirements, explaining why they are important.
For this assignment, you will develop a brief presentation in Google Presentation (Google Docs), PowerPoint, Prezi, or some other presentation tool. Use the notes section or a separate Word document (if your tool does not have a notes section) to provide additional notes for each slide that would be helpful to you during your presentation. For help with creating notes, refer to the Notes in Presentations Word Document document. Your presentation should include references, as needed, in APA format.

Begin to develop the review of literature by finding 6 sources related to your topic. Summarize each of those sources using roughly ½ page per source, properly cite the sources using APA format, and arrange the sources by themes developed at the discretion of the student. Include a list of references at the end.

Class Activity: Situational Leadership
Class Activity: Situational Leadership
Watch and Read:
From class Leadership Northouse textbook: Read chapter 5, Situational Leadership. Pay attention to Figure 5.1. Situational Leadership. 
From ” A Makeover to Takeover,” Read pages 37 (“Your Audience”) to 44 (“Perceived Yourself Checklist”) – Please see below a folder called “A Makeover to Takeover…” It contains all the videos included in the book.
While reading and watching, take notes and reflect on the skills necessary to reach that level of success. Think about The four styles of S1. S2, S3. S4 (of your Northouse textbook, chapter 5)
Class Activity:
After completing the readings (pages 37-44) and watching the videos linked in the book via QR codes:
Refer to your workbook, which you prepared during Week 1.
Complete activities 1.8 (Get Skilled) – add a note at the bottom of the table (100 words), and explain what kind of situational leadership (S1 to S4) you are at this point. 
Tip: Explore LinkedIn to find individuals holding your desired positions to enhance your understanding. Analyze their skills and consider how this information can inform your skill development.

Final paper:
During the course of this semester, you have learned about a number of ways the issue of health
care services fraud is addressed. Please take what you have learned in addressing the final project:
Scenario:
A potential health care fraud scheme has been discovered. It has been alleged that a doctor, “The
Candyman” has engaged in the practice of over prescribing a number of different prescription pain
medications. It is alleged that he has developed a practice which allows those with and without
insurance to appear at his office and receive prescriptions for pain medications without having to
go through the required examination process. It has even been suggested that he has a separate
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office within his practice for these patients to be “seen” so that they do not interfere with his
regular paying patient base. An initial review of the allegations seems to indicate the following:
• The Candyman has engaged in this practice for more than ten (10) years and has hundreds
of patients strictly receiving pain medication prescriptions without the benefit of going
through the required examinations.
• Many of these patients are on Medicaid, meaning that the Medicaid program is paying for
the prescriptions, and potentially for office visits that may not be occurring. At the same
time, there are many that have other insurance coverage, and some that simply pay with
cash.
• The vast majority of the prescriptions are being filled at one pharmacy, suggesting a
possible collusion.
• There may be as many as 50 patients that have died due to an overdose on pain medications
that have a direct tie to the Candyman’s practice.
In no more than five pages, I would like you to put together a plan for how to approach this
matter both from an oversight standpoint (what could be done to prevent this activity in the
future) and from an investigation standpoint (what steps should be taken and what
agency/agencies might need to be involved to investigate these allegations. As you are
thinking through this you should look at the different agencies we have discussed
throughout the semester, as well as the legal and investigative tools, in developing your
strategies.
There is no right or wrong answer. Your answer will be graded based upon the thought and support
given to each of your suggestions. And, I don’t expect you to approach it like a seasoned inspector
or investigator. I will be looking to see if you have gained an understanding of the various
alternatives that are available, and how well you understand them.
Readings 
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fact-sheet-health-care-fraud-and-abuse-control-program-protects-conusmers-and-taxpayers

Medicaid in an Era of Health & Delivery System Reform: Results from a 50-State Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 – Program Integrity Initiatives

https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicaid-coordination/states/medicaid-integrity-program
https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/preventing-provider-fraud-through-health-it-data-analytics
https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/medicaid-fraud-control-units-mfcu/
https://www.cms.gov/Medicare-Medicaid-Coordination/Fraud-Prevention/FraudAbuseforProfs/Downloads/2008-Best-Practices-Medicaid-PI-Unit-Int-with-MFCU.pdf
https://oig.hhs.gov/compliance/
https://oig.hhs.gov/authorities/docs/cpghosp.pdf

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please read the capstone introduction for all the information related to the topic. additionally see the attached PDF for more information The Literature Review is approximately 60% of the final work. Please make sure all work is properly cited. Without proper citing the literature is not a viable document
1. Literature Review(30%)
o Summarize and evaluate existing research and theories related to your topic.
o Identify gaps in the current research that your paper will address.

The public budgets match expenditures of assets and services with receipts of public money, such as taxes and fees.If a budget does not balance, services need to be cut, taxes need to be raised, or money needs to be borrowed.  Different budgeting formats allow for the review of revenues and expenditures.
Instructions
For this assignment you will analyze:
·      The Impact of the following three types of budgets:
o   Impact of Line-Item Budgeting on the budgetary process.  How does it work and what is its impact (advantages/disadvantages)?  
o   Impact of Program Budgeting on the budgetary process.  How does it work and what is its impact (advantages/disadvantages)?
o   Impact of Performance Budgeting on the budgetary process.  How does it work and what is its impact (advantages/disadvantages)?
·      The impact of two political, economic, and social constraints on the budgetary process
To successfully complete this assignment, please refer to the Research Paper: Types of Budgets Assignment Guide. Using the outline is designed to clarify the assignment by breaking it into component parts so it can be dealt with systematically. It will assure that the specifications of the assignment are met and will improve the quality of your report. A doctoral level course requires description and analysis. While descriptions certainly are the precursor to analyses, they are not the analyses.  
***PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS & USE THE  GUIDE****

As a human services
professional, it is likely that at some point in your career you will interview
for a management position with a program that focuses on providing services for
children ages zero to three (and their families). This assignment helps you
prepare for that likely possibility. You will utilize the knowledge gained from
the course thus far, in addition to utilizing the text and relevant resources
provided, to create a presentation that you will present as part of a job
interview. In order to impress the hiring committee, you should make your
presentation look professional and integrate current research on your selected
topic from the five options provided to you in the prompt below. You really
want this management position; it is your dream job. This presentation is your
opportunity to shine.
Prompt
You are one of the final
applicants being considered for a management position at a zero-to-three
community-based program. They have asked you to come in for a final day of
interviews and to present on one of the following topics of your choice:
emotional development, temperament, attachment, caregivers and interaction with
infants, or Piaget’s theory of development. You must demonstrate your expertise
on the topic in an engaging way in order to have a chance to obtain this job.
Your presentation must
demonstrate your knowledge and understanding on the topic, including current
and/or relevant research, stages involved, and a community-based program or
school that would work with an infant on the topic. As an example, would Early
Head Start or another program help a child and/or parent in learning about
attachment?
Specifically, the
following critical elements must be addressed:
·    Demonstrate knowledge and
understanding of the selected topic.
·    Include current and relevant
research on the selected topic.
·    Identify one community-based
program or school that works with infant on the selected topic.
·    Create an engaging and
professional presentation that flows in a logical sequence.
What to Submit
Your presentation must
contain 5–7 slides using Google Presentation (Google Docs), PowerPoint, Prezi,
or some other presentation tool, with notes in the notes section (or in a
separate Word document if the presentation tool you use does not have an area for
notes) that would be helpful to you during the presentation. Your presentation
should also include references, as needed, in APA format.

Darrin and Quinn are conducting studies involving job satisfaction. Darrin asks survey respondents to rate their overall level of job satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest. Quinn asks survey respondents to describe their overall job satisfaction using 300 words. Which of the two are using descriptive and qualitative questions? What will be some advantages and disadvantages of using those different types of questions? How will the responses to the two questions be analyzed?