impact of governmental action on a business

Analysis: After submitting your overview, your boss is having second thoughts about bringing Jack Harris and his firm, Crisis Consulting, on board. Before he makes his final decision he has asked you to provide him with a thorough analysis of the situation faced by your business. He asks you to prepare a memorandum to him (the CEO) analyzing the situation that your business faces as well as the resources that are available to it. Address the following:

Company: BCBS of Michigan (a reference to BCBS Association can be made as well)

Business Environment: Based on your analysis of the governmental action or political challenge, what will be the impact of the governmental action or political challenge on the business’s financial situation and operations? Does the action represent an opportunity or a threat?
Sustainability: Based on your analysis of the governmental action or political challenge, how will the governmental action or political challenge impact the sustainability of the business?
Internal Resources: Evaluate the internal resources of the company, including the business project teams that are available to respond to the opportunity or threat. In other words, is the business adequately organized to address the opportunity or threat?
Communication: How has information about the situation been communicated to various stakeholders? For example, have any public hearings been held? Have the radio, newspapers, or social media been used?
Company Image: Assess how the situation has affected the company’s public image. Has the impact been primarily positive or negative? If the impact has been primarily negative, what are the positive aspects in addition to the negative aspects? If the impact has been primarily positive, what are the negative aspects in addition to the positive aspects?
Response: What are the potential courses of action to respond to the situation in the current macroeconomic and business environment? In other words, what is the range of options for the business in this situation?
Impact: How will these courses of action impact the business? Make sure to consider both short- and long-term impacts, including operational, financial, and ethical implications.
External Resources: Evaluate the roles and functions of third parties or external resources in the situation. Consider questions such as these in your response: How will lobbyists be involved in the situation? Will there be public affairs professionals who will argue on behalf of the government or the business?

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as an 8-10 page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one- inch margins, and sources cited in APA format.

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Impacts of government action on BCBSM’s business environment and our sustainability prospects

Government action and the impacts of the same on BCBSM and the industry are usually implemented under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and the service benefits plan (Feldstein, 2012). The two programs require the insurance provider to renew their engagement with the program on a contractual basis. The Federal Employee Program and the Federal Employee Health Benefits programs are the bases upon which the government auditing standards are based, and to that effect, the audit scope is usually limited to two main areas: miscellaneous health benefits payments and the administration as well as credit costs of the BCBSM in a given fiscal year (Feldstein, 2012). In addition, it will be my pleasure to point your attention to the various means through which the changes in our business environment and those affecting our operations will be communicated to our various stakeholders: physicians, nurses, medical centers and the various Medicare Advantage and Medicaid personnel we currently partner with (Feldstein, 2012).

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