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How Do Changes in Medicare, Specifically The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, Affect Hospital Reimbursement?
Get PDFThis paper studies the effects of The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and its impact on hospital reimbursements. Using Medicare data at the hospital level for fiscal years 2011 and 2015, this paper adds to current literature on the origin of Medicare policy changes through the use of nationwide hospital data, while including all 1,000 inpatient Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) definitions. The results from this paper suggest the emphasis that has been placed on delivering value over volume has effected hospital reimbursements. In 2011 a 1% increase in total discharges meant a 0.0213% increase in average total payments, while in 2015 the same 1% increase resulted in only a 0.00575% increase in average total payments. Also, I found that a 1% increase in average Medicare payments increased average total payments, by 0.911% and 0.939% for 2011 and 2015 respectively. So overall, treating less patients with greater emphasis placed on value became standard thanks to MACRA
Framing Gender: Ellis Island Immigration Portraits
Get PDFCurrently, the United States is experiencing renewed debates over immigration and its immigration policy, which range between arguments for increased or decreased admittances. These conversations are not new; there is an uncanny familiarity in how arguments have remained the same over the span of a hundred years. Through looking at the historical representation of immigrants at Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, perhaps we can foster further critical dialogue about how we currently understand the “foreign” and the “other” with respect to gender. While this paper focuses specifically on gender subversion within the photograph versus typical representations of gender, it is also important to understand issues of race and disability at Ellis Island, as it was a site for the medical gaze to determine which bodies were fit to enter the United States. Within portraits of Ellis Island immigrants, we see a similar fascination with the “other” that mirrors the visual dissemination process of the institution
Five Lace Umbrellas -2
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MDOCS Poster-2018 Spring, Photography Workshop with Eric Jenks
Get PDFFriday, February 16th, 2018 @ 2-4pm:
Document your world: Learn how to compose a compelling photograph using your own camera
Friday, April 13th, 2018 @ 2-4:30pm:
Photo Editing: Bring 3-5 pictures for an introduction to editing with Photoshop
Join Skidmore alum and photographer Eric Jenks for a hands-on workshop on taking and editing compelling photos with any camera.
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These workshops are for anyone planning to study abroad, travel over spring break, or explore or document closer to home, and those who have photos ready to share
Race, Form, and Tamburlaine
Get PDFThis essay endeavors to engage with the critical context surrounding Marlowe’s Tamburlaine parts I and II and the plays themselves to consider race. Scholarly discourse on the Tamburlaine plays has historically focused on imperialism, colonialism, and questions of religion, but race has been largely overlooked. This essay provides a survey of scholarly perspectives that have worked to marginalize discussions of race and turns to critical race theory as an interpretive framework. The application of critical race theory to questions of performativity and early modern reception subsequently affords a new perspective on race in Tamburlaine that challenges dominant scholarly discourse. Ultimately, the essay concludes with a broader consideration of form to both reaffirm the efficacy of literary interpretation and situate it in a capacious context. Thus, this analysis of form maintains the potential to overturn pervasive hegemony and ideological violence predicated on racialization
The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural productivity in the Eastern African Community
Get PDFThe impact of climate change is noticeable already affecting different sectors: health, social, economic and agriculture. Although climate change impacts countries differently, agriculture is expected to be the most vulnerable sector. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the impact of extreme temperatures on agricultural productivity in the Eastern African Community. The Eastern African Region is chosen as a case study because of its dependence on agriculture. The study observes five countries with available data from 1991 to 2015. The result of the nonlinear temperature regression models shows a significant decrease on grain yields at extreme temperatures and rainfall measures