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Part 1:

a:Consumer-Driven Health Care

As a current or future health care executive, it is important to weigh the variety of things that consumers consider when making the decision to subscribe to health services offered by your health care organization. For what are your consumers looking, and what drives them to choose your health care organization? What are some of the items on which you need to reflect that consumers will use to drive their decision to utilize your health services?

Review the resources reflect on those considerations consumers keep in mind when selecting a health care organization to meet their health care needs. Think about what aspects of health care delivery in your health care organization, or one with which you are familiar, might be considered most important for a consumer to take into account when selecting where to receive health care.

In 2 or 3 paragraphs describe two different things that a consumer might consider when evaluating whether or not your health care organization will meet his or her health care needs. Provide a detailed explanation of each item and rationale for why a consumer would look at these items when making a decision. Be specific, and provide examples.

b: Medical tourism

Medical tourism is a much more common practice today for receiving affordable health care services. As the cost of health care continues to rise in the United States, increased numbers of potential patients are flocking to other countries to receive affordable health care services. While medical tourism might affect the financial posterity of your health care organization, it too might be a reflection of an industry’s commitment to fostering increased access to affordable health care services. From your perspective as a current or future health care administration leader, is medical tourism a social good?

Consider the potential benefits and consequences of medical tourism from both a consumer and a health care administration leader’s perspective.

In 2 or 3 paragraphs explain how the role of medical tourism might relate to social change. Be specific, and provide examples for both the consumer and the health care administration leader.

References:

Healthgrades Operating Company, Inc. (2016). Healthgrades. Retrieved from http://www.healthgrades.com/

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (2016c). Hospital compare. Retrieved from https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.ht…

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Imagine you have been asked to deliver a two-part informative workshop at a local health care expo by your Director of Community Outreach. Before he approves your workshop, you have to submit a proposal for each workshop that thoroughly discusses the content you would like to present. The first half of the workshop will inform the expo attendees of the demand of health care services as well as the cost of the services, expenditure to the health care industry, and payment sources used by the health care industry. It is important that consumers are aware of these concepts as they consider available health care services; therefore, you will want emphasize how the information you are sharing makes them better consumers.

Proposal Part l

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you present the content you would like to discuss in the workshop to help increase overall consumer awareness regarding health care services.

Include the following in your paper:

• Analyze the demand for health care services.
  • How does the demand for health care services differ from other consumer purchases?
  • What are the relationships between:
    • Changes in the cost of treatment or medicines and the demand for health care services?
    • Consumer/patient need and the demand for health care services?
  • How do changes in the behaviors of the consumers increase and/or decrease the demand for health care services?
  • Why is it important for consumers to understand the demand for health services?
• Analyze the cost structure for the delivery of health care services.
  • How do different markets (large city vs. rural area) affect the cost of health care services?
  • What impact do specialized services (e.g., cancer or orthopedic centers) have on health care costs?
  • How do specialized service centers differ from traditional hospitals?
  • How are the objectives different for a for-profit vs. a non-profit health care organization?
  • Why is it important for consumers to understand the cost structure for the delivery of health care services?
• Analyze the major sources of health care spending.
  • How has the trend of health care costs regarding the overall economy changed over the past several decades?
  • What impact does technology have on health care costs?
  • Why is it important for consumers to know the major sources of health care spending?
• Analyze the various payment sources and mechanisms in the health care industry.
  • What sources are used to pay the costs of health care services other than self-pay and private health insurance?
  • What impact does the government have on payment sources for health care services?
  • Why is it important for consumers to know the payment sources for health care services?

Cite four textbook, peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support the assignment.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.