Scenario:

A family practice that serves over 4,500 patients is owned by three brothers, all general practitioner medical doctors who have been closely watching how the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”) is developing, especially with the ongoing changes to the eligibilities of coverage for patients and reimbursements that now require their facility to change its systems and processes for compliance.

As a healthcare consultant, you have been retained by the family practice to perform a thorough audit and analysis of the facility, including its systems, processes, and procedures, with an emphasis on record keeping and coding/billing practices.

You have also spent some time with the owners of the family practice discussing what the future holds regarding the types of treatments, demographics of patients, and the effect of technology on the methodologies of patient treatment. Within this context, the client asks you to provide the following:

Questions:

When comparing the overall health care system in America, how does it compare to just 40

years ago?

Provide some examples of what specifically is critical for the healthcare organization to consider regarding how treatments are performed on patients.

What technological advancements do you predict in health care in the next 15 years, especially those that can be opportunities for a family medical clinic scenario?

What are the regulatory agency changes coming in the near future?

What are your predictions for the success of the ACA, especially in the next 5 years?

REQUIRED RATE OF RETURN

Suppose rRF = 6%, rM = 13%, and bi = 1.7.

2. Now suppose rRF decreases to 5%. The slope of the SML remains constant. How would this affect rMand ri?

What is ri, the required rate of return on Stock i? Round your answer to two decimal places.
%

1. Now suppose rRF increases to 7%. The slope of the SML remains constant. How would this affect rMand ri?

Both rM and ri will increase by 1%.

rM will remain the same and ri will increase by 1%.

rM will increase by 1% and ri will remain the same.

Both rM and ri will decrease by 1%.

Both rM and ri will remain the same.

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rM will remain the same and ri will decrease by 1%.

Both rM and ri will increase by 1%.

Both rM and ri will remain the same.

Both rM and ri will decrease by 1%.

rM will decrease by 1% and ri will remain the same.

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1. Now assume that rRF remains at 6%, but rM increases to 14%. The slope of the SML does not remain constant. How would these changes affect ri? Round your answer to two decimal places.

The new ri will be  %.

2. Now assume that rRF remains at 6%, but rM falls to 12%. The slope of the SML does not remain constant. How would these changes affect ri? Round your answer to two decimal places.

The new ri will be  %.

Biscayne’s Rent-A-Ride rents two models of automobiles: the standard and the deluxe. Information follows:

Biscayne’s total fixed cost is $14,525 per month.

Required:
1. Determine the contribution margin per rental day and contribution margin ratio for each model that Biscayne’s offers. (Round your "Unit Contribution Margin" answers to 2 decimal places.)



2. Which model would Biscayne’s prefer to rent?

3. Calculate Biscayne’s break-even point if the product mix is 50/50. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to the nearest whole number.)



4. Calculate the break-even point if Biscayne’s product mix changes so that the standard model is rented 75 percent of the time and the deluxe model is rented for only 25 percent. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to the nearest whole number.)



5. Calculate the break-even point if Biscayne’s product mix changes so that the standard model is rented 25 percent of the time and the deluxe model is rented for 75 percent. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to the nearest whole number.)

A question about the amplitude graph of the pendulum:
Should I say; Period does not depend on Amplitude and just make a zero slope graph just like the mass graph.

OR

Should I say; The time period of a pendulum changes as the amplitude changes, but change is negligible if the amplitude is very small. Period only depends on amplitude, if the amplitude isn't very small and make a positive slope graph that represents a slight change as the amplitude of pendulum increases.

Q2: What's the maximum amplitude of a 0.71m pendulum is it 90° or 180°?

Q3: As a negative test charge moves farther from a negative charge in an electric field, the potential energy?

a.decreases.
b. increases.
c. doubles.
d. remains the same.

Q4: If a magnetic field points upward and the current is to your left, the force is.

a. toward you
b. to your right
c. away from you
d. to your left

Q5: A device used to measure both magnitude AND direction of an electric current is a(n)

a. ammeter.
b. galvanometer.
c. voltmeter.
d. ohmmeter.

Q6: The current is least in a rotating loop when the loop’s motion is __________ the magnetic field.

a. slow and perpendicular to
b. slow and parallel to
c. fast and perpendicular to
d. fast and parallel to

Q7: The force on a test charge in an electric field is __________ the magnitude of the field.

a. inversely proportional to
b. directly proportional to
c. inversely proportional to the square of
d. unrelated to

The following table lists the weight of individuals before and after taking a diet prescribed by a weight-loss company for a month:

You may find this Student's t distribution table useful in answering the following questions. You may assume that the differences in weight are normally distributed.

a)Calculate the sample variance (s_d²) of the changes in individual weights. Give your answer to 2 decimal places.

s_d² =

b)A disgruntled customer states:

"This weight-loss company is a complete farce. All the people I know who signed up experienced no changes in their weight at all. I seriously doubt this diet has any effect whatsoever. I want my money back!"

You plan to do a hypothesis test on this claim where the hypotheses are:

H₀: the customer's claim is true and the program has no effect on weight
H_A: the customer's claim is not true and the program does have an effect on weight, whether it increases or decreases

According to the data given, you should accept, reject, not reject the null hypothesis at a confidence level of 90%.

Discussion question #1 – Draw two graphs side-by-side that show the market equilibrium price for soy beans as $3 per pound. The second graph is for Sally the soy bean farmer whose profit maximizing output is 80 pounds of soybeans. Show on your graph Sally making a profit of $140 at the market price of $3. Label all curves you draw and clearly indicate the profit region.
1. Is the above scenario a short-run or long-run equilibrium?
2. If it is not a long-run equilibrium, tell me how you know this?
3. What do you expect to happen in the long-run?
4. What effect will these long run changes have on either the supply or demand curve in the U.S. Soy bean market?
5. What effect will these long run soy bean market changes have on Sally the soy bean farmer?
6. What happens in the long run to soy bean prices?
7. What happens in the long run to the quantity of soy beans produced in the market?
8. What happens in the long run to the quantity of soy beans produced by Sally?

draw 2 graphs below Label the initial equilibrium points “A” in both graphs below…label the new long-run equilibrium points “B” on your graph below.

The following transactions occurred during 2021:

month begin the following January. Ignore interest considerations.

truck on May 31, but not unloaded until June 3 because the recipient delayed paying the freight bill until then. The vendor prepares and mails the invoice to the customer on June 10.

March 31. Installation is completed by April 30, after which the system is ready for use. The vendor provides monthly support and upgrades for 4 months following the month of installation (through end of August). The value of the system and cables is $50,000, the value of the installation services is $22,000, and the value of the monthly support totals $6,000.

truck January 31 and delivered on February 1.

completed for this customer.

Instructions
Identify in which month revenue should be recognized in each situation. If revenue should be recognized in more than one month, calculate the amounts that apply to each relevant month

Hourly rate for each partner.

Capital investment by each partner.

Interest rate on capital investment.

Profit and loss ratio.

Grab a blank sheet of paper and try some inflation analysis on your own. Take a picture or scan your sheet, and upload it after you are finished. This contributes to your participation grade in the class.

1. Because inflation increased by only 1.7% in 2008, the American Association of Retired Persons comments that this is “an unfortunate side effect of inflation, since Social Security payments, which are indexed to inflation, will increase by only 1.7% in 2008.” Comment on whether this is an “unfortunate side effect of inflation” or not.
2. The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) can impact the economy through changes in the Federal funds rate, because changes in this interest rate will change all interest rates throughout the economy. The Federal funds rate was constant at 5.25% from 1996–1998, a time of falling inflation. What impact did this have on real interest rates during this time? What was likely to happen to investment spending?
3. “Traveling in Turkey is much cheaper now than it was 10 years ago,” says a friend. "Ten years ago, a dollar bought 1,000 lira; this year, a dollar buys 1,500 lira.” Total inflation over this period was 25% in the United States and 100% in Turkey. Is your friend right or wrong—has it become more or less expensive to travel in Turkey?

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