Futurescan: Issues Affecting the Health Care System
Post your responses to the Discussion based on the course requirements. Your Discussion postings should be written in standard edited English and follow APA guidelines as closely as possible given the constraints of the online platform. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this modules Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Initial postings must be 250350 words (not including references).
Note: This is a Post First assignment. You are required to post your original post before the discussion board opens for your review.
Write a research on numerous issues affecting the health care industry now and in the future. Which of these issues has the potential to impact you either professionally or personally? Which of these issues are of particular concern and interest in your career as a health care administrator?
To Prepare for This Discussion:
This week, you examined the many potential issues and changes that can affect the health care system. Based on the knowledge you have gained throughout this course, consider what you think to be the most important or pertinent health care policy issue affecting the health care industry today. How might this issue improve health care costs? How might it transform the way health care is delivered? How might it change the way people access health care in the future? Think of an issue that has both current and future implications.
For example, in your Learning Resources this week, you read an article in Modern Healthcare, which outlines plans the CMS Innovation Center has for testing a next generation Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) model in 2016. In this model, patients will be able to voluntarily enroll in accountable care and in exchange, have their co-pays reduced or eliminated for some services, such as primary-care visits (Evans, 2015). This articles offers a good example of current trends affecting relevant health care issues such as cost and access to care.
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Based on insights you have gained throughout this course and the Learning Resources from this week, explain what you think is the most pertinent health care policy issue with the potential to transform the way health care is delivered. Make sure to include in your post the following:
Outline the policy in question with a brief history and background of the issue it addresses or does not address well.
Next, discuss the Stakeholders involved in this issue and the effects passing the policy (or changing/defeating the policy) may have on their outcomes and interests.
Outline the barriers to passing (or defeating) this policy and posit solutions as to how to overcome these barriers. These barriers may include insurance coverage, eligibility, or reimbursement.
Provide a rationale for implementation of a policy brief from a legal, ethical, and operational perspective. Be specific and provide examples.
Lastly, make recommendations (i.e., changes in policy, changes in delivery of care, changes in focus for legislation, changes in insurance coverages or reimbursement) for current and future practice.
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Required Readings- PLEASE USE AT LEAST ONE OF THESE REFERENCES
Teitelbaum J., & Pozgar G. (2015). Law, ethics, and policy in healthcare administration (Custom ed.). Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Chapter 16, Government Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare (pp. 431459)
Baicker, K., Taubman, S. L., Allen, H. L., Bernstein, M., Gruber, J. H., Newhouse, J. P., … & Finkelstein, A. N. (2013). The Oregon experimentEffects of Medicaid on clinical outcomes. The New England Journal of Medicine, 368(18), 17131722.
Crowley, R. A., & Golden, W. (2014). Healthcare policy basics: Medicaid expansion. Annals of Internal Medicine, 160(6), 423425.
Miller E. A. (2012). The Affordable Care Act and long-term care: Comprehensive reform or just tinkering around the edges? Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 24(2), 101117.
Shortell, S. M., Wu, F. M., Lewis, V. A., Colla, C. H., & Fisher, E. S. (2014). A taxonomy of accountable care organizations for policy and practice. Health Services Research, 49(6), 18831899.
Sommers, B. D., & Epstein, A. M. (2013). U.S. governors and the Medicaid expansion No quick resolution in sight. The New England Journal of Medicine, 368(6), 496 499.
Aronson, L. (2015). Necessary steps: How health care fails older patients, and how it can be done better. Health Affairs, 34(3), 528532.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. (2013). Faces of the Medicaid expansion: How obtaining Medicaid coverage impacts low-income adults. Retrieved from http://kff.org/health-reform/report/faces-of-the-medicaid-expansion-how-obtaining-medicaid-coverage-impacts-low-income-adults/
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