Assignment Description:

Financing Healthcare

Consider how compensation for healthcare services shape delivery of care, and reflects policy and policy changes and write a paper that addresses the bullets below. Be sure to completely address each bullet point. There should be four (4) sections in your paper; one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear brief heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Include a “Conclusion” section that summarizes all topics. This assignment will be at least 1250 words.

This week you will reflect upon accountability in healthcare finance to address the following:

• Discuss the history of private health insurance and manage care and how it involved into a healthcare industry?
• Identify the key federal laws that protect individuals who are enrolled in private insurance.
• Briefly discuss consumer-driven healthcare and the empowerment of the healthcare consumer.
• Explore the opportunities which have emerged for nurses within the private insurance market.

Assignment Description:

Accountability in Healthcare

This assignment will be at least 1500 words. Address each bulleted item (topic) in detail including the questions that follow each bullet. There should be three (3) sections in your paper; one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear brief heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Include a “Conclusion” section that summarizes all topics.

This week you will reflect upon accountability in healthcare and address the following questions:

• Briefly define an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and how it impacts health care providers:
  1. How do ACOs differ from the health maintenance organizations (HMOs) of earlier years
  2. What role does health information technology (HIT) play in the newer models of care?
• What is the benefit of hospitals partnering with primary care providers?
  1. How does bundling payments contain healthcare costs?
  2. How does pay for performance (P4P) improve quality care?
• Briefly discuss the value-based purchasing program?
  1. How do value-based purchasing (VBP) programs affect reimbursement to hospitals?
  2. Who benefits the most from value-based reimbursement and why?
  3. How does the VBP program measure hospital performance?