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4 years ago General ideas: analyze the business problem; start with nouns; abstraction.
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4 years ago General ideas: analyze the business problem; start with nouns; abstraction.
March 25, 2020
Oral chemotherapy for all Medicare patients through the nation is costly. All Americans over the age of 65, and enrolled into a Medicare drug plan diagnosed with cancer will be impacted. Anyone with an aunt, grandparent, sibling, or spouse will know someone financially impacted by the cost of their oral chemotherapy. The average thirty day supply of oral chemo costs ten thousand dollars: Medicare pays 10% of the monthly average cost. Therefore, any Medicare drug plan in the nation will pay between seven and one-thousand dollars per 30 days on average. However starting in January, everyone in the nation starts over to their first Tier. There are three drug insurance tiers all Medicare patients will meet:
Tier 1—lowest Copayments. Tier 2—medium copayments: preferred, brand-name prescriptions drugs. Tier 3—higher copayment: non-preferred, brand-name prescription drugs. Catastrophic.
On average, on the first oral chemo refill will be composed of copayments in Tier one through three. Therefore a flat sum of 3,400 is generated as an average. The same tier principal pricing can be applied to commercial prescription drug coverage but typically is always remedied under non-Medicare guidelines—resulting in zero copay year around. Therefore, the scope of this project is narrowly focused on Medicare patients who plan to start and/or have been on oral chemotherapy. Below is a general monthly breakdown of Medicare Copays for chemo pills:
January – 10,000 X .34 = adjusted sum February – 10,000 X .10 + 300 = adjusted sum March – 10,000 X .10 = adjusted sum April - ∞ o …rest of the months repeat, a.k.a. catastrophic tier 3 January –the cycle repeats
Similar to the Blazor template counter found in the index style sheet, we could write out an algorithm to mimic the monthly sets of January through March. As demonstrated above, we can create our first “myBlazorComponent” file utilizing the @program that will need to be included inside the repository index. The above set is a nice general average sum of what patients can expect to pay for their oral chemo drugs. The goal of this experimental Blazor application is to ease the task of calculating the complex monthly math of copayments. Specifically for Americans purchasing oral chemo therapy medication through their Medicare drug plan. The math is a visual set or representation of calculations we can use regarding monthly Medicare copayments. I’ve used this mental set of calculations working in the healthcare assistance fields for over three years. Now the Blazor experimental software needs to be built using sets discussed in this narrative.
The goal is to estimate the sum of oral chemo copays using a Medicare drug plan in a simple application or responsive website. For now, we can use C# to create a set of problems, then select or create an algorithm to solve for the copay. Going down the rows of months, like a line going through time, I hope to construct a set of sums that display the average cost of their oral chemo. After an algorithm is selected, the program can look forward to more accurate sets using free third party resources. Therefore, for a more accurate estimation on the monthly sets, we can compile copay dollar amounts through an API (application programming interface). And they are already provided online by free pharmacy website services. The API will help the program estimate the TROOP (true out-of-pocket for prescriptions) for the patient. Since the integer averages under a nicely round ten thousand, it’s ideal to create what I hope to be an easy algorithm. One that can be plugged into a responsive website on a later date. The algorithm will have to include many steps that are still being developed as I write this article. An algorithm request will be created into a pull-request. Create an interface where they can plug in the name of the drug, then run the monthly calculation using the formula above with the API plugged into the first integer sum above average around $10,000 per month. Solve for the monthly copay. The sum of y is equal to January through March; solve for y. This is a starting point for the algorithm. Keep in mind this is an abstract attempt with limited knowledge in programing at the time of this writing. Private class: nameSpace: algorithm sum of y = month; int sum of i = 10,000 sum of January = (i .34) sum of February = (i .10) + 300 sum of March = (i .10) sum of y = (3400, 1300, 1000, 1000,…) public class: January = y February = y March = y Solve for the monthly copay. The sum of y = January through March; solve for y. namespace: algorithm int sum of y = month; sum of i = 10,000 sum of January = (i .34) sum of February = (i .10) + 300 sum of March = (i .10) sum of y = (3400, 1300, 1000, 1000,…) Functional program hopes. Once the solution is found to the problem, more sets can be create, then broken down, to create more solutions. A more object oriented solution in steps: Step 1: select age +>65 Step 2: select dropdown box of the month Step 3: print.ln int of copay amount Step 4 int = y OR
Function getAverage(list) { int sum = 0, count = list.length; for (var I = 0; I < count; i++) { sum +- list[i]; } return sum/cont; }
Average sum= 10,000<+; Step 2: display graph Private class Public class Protect class Step 3:
This is not a complete list but a starting point and a first rough draft of the experimental responsive website software Blazor.