Yearly Archives: 2022

Developing Financial Statements   All organizations, including those in the health care industry, need to make money to be profitable and survive. Financial statements, such as balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and cash flow statements summarize an organization’s profitability and overall financial status. For this Assignment, you practice developing three key financial statements using […]

Health Insurance Expansion   Health care market failures, such as adverse selection, can be addressed through government policy and regulation. By limiting barriers and providing access to health care through policy such as the health insurance expansion under the Affordable Care Act, policy makers can address failures and ensure adequate insurance coverage for healthy, unhealthy, […]

Supply of Primary Care Workforce   To deliver health care services, an ACO needs to create a competent workforce that can provide health care to the patients that are in the ACO. Some integrated ACO entities already have employed physicians and mid-level providers that receive salaries from the organization, whereas other non-integrated ACO entities need […]

Economic Policies for Health Promotion, Wellness, and Prevention   In the United States, the health care system emphasizes health promotion, wellness, and prevention as a strategy to improve population health and lower per capita spending. Around the world, however, health care systems vary considerably in terms of cost, quality, and provisions. For this Assignment, you […]

Shifting From Volume to Value   A key reform goal of the 2010 Affordable Care Act was to create a healthcare system that rewards providers for achieving optimal care outcomes at a sustainable cost. As part of the law, the federal government has tested and implemented several new payment models designed to achieve this goal […]

Ethics in Health Care Finance   As a health care administrator, you will undoubtedly be faced with the responsibility of making decisions that may be impacted by ethics. Sometimes, the best approach to a given situation is clear, whereas others require you to carefully consider laws, regulations, and the impact of potential outcomes. How do […]

Working Capital   Working capital, or actual cash available for spending, is the key to a successful organization. In a health care organization, it is important to determine how much cash is available to run the day-to-day operations. For this Discussion, you analyze the working capital of a health care organization of your choice.   […]

Regulation, Policy, and Economic Efficiency   One of the assumptions of value-based care is that if consumers are aware of price, then they can make better decisions about the health care services they receive. In an effort to encourage this efficiency in health care, government regulation and policy has been designed to promote transparency of […]

Health Care Organizational and Market Structures   In an industry as complex as health care, organizational and market structures must be carefully considered. To participate in accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other value-based care initiatives, for example, hospitals need to have a coordinated care organization model across ambulatory care, acute care, and other settings. Developing […]

Health Care Reimbursement and Utilization Management   Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are designed to promote value and quality in health care. They use new payment and delivery models that include incentives to improve care coordination and utilization management. With these models, ACOs contract with private insurers and/or Medicare to receive reimbursement, and then the ACO […]