A vaccine is the most effective form of prevention. In the case of influenza, a vaccine can cut your risk of developing the disease by up to 90 percent, depending on a variety of factors, including the effectiveness of the vaccine that year
A vaccine is the most effective form of prevention. In the case of influenza, a vaccine can cut your risk of developing the disease by up to 90 percent, depending on a variety of factors, including the effectiveness of the vaccine that year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) recommend that all U.S. health care professionals get vaccinated annually against influenza.
Mandatory vaccination is a controversial strategy that pits health care professional and personal autonomy against patient/public safety and employee relations. Administrators planning to implement mandatory influenza vaccination policies for health care professionals must understand the implications involved in these policies.
To Prepare for This Discussion:
Review the peer-reviewed, professional journal articles and news article in this week’s Learning Resources, describing a dispute involving a health care facility’s mandatory vaccination or mask for seasonal flu. Select one of these articles for the Discussion, or find one of your own in a peer-reviewed journal or on the Internet. This dispute may involve an individual health care provider or facility.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 2 Discussion
Conflict Between Employer Policy and Professional Code of Ethics
Assisted living facilities give older adults a sense of independence, even though these adults need help with daily activities. Typically, the staff at these facilities is available around the clock to assist residents. Because of the nature of assisted living facilities, staff and/or residents might become involved with helping someone in distress. Although this help is often necessary, it can involve complex challenges, including possible legal issues.
Good Samaritan doctrine is a legal principle that prevents a rescuer who has voluntarily helped a victim in distress from being sued for “wrongdoing.” Its purpose is to encourage people to help strangers in need without fear of legal repercussions should they make a mistake in treatment.
Good Samaritan laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and generally do not apply to medical professionals or career emergency responders while on the job. Some of these laws, however, extend protection to professional rescuers when they are acting in a volunteer capacity.
To Prepare for This Discussion:
Watch the CBS video, “911 Recording: Nurse Refuses to Give CPR to Dying Woman.” Analyze the Good Samaritan law in your state, and review the Tunson article in this week’s Learning Resources. As a health care administrator, analyze how Good Samaritan laws and health care laws and ethics apply to the situation in the CBS video. What are the conflicts? How does the professional code of ethics apply to this situation?
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 3 Discussion
Criminal Behavior by Health Care Providers
The United States federal government has created numerous programs to combat fraud and abuse in the health care industry. The government now encourages health care facilities to have a corporate compliance program, a plan that reduces the chances that the facility will violate laws or regulations. A corporate compliance program is an organization-wide program comprising a code of conduct and written policies, internal monitoring and auditing standards, employee training, feedback mechanisms, and other features, all designed to prevent and detect violations of governmental laws, regulations, and policies. It is a system or method ensuring that employees understand and comply with laws that apply to what they do every day.
To Prepare for This Discussion:
Conduct an online search to find a legal case, journal article, or detailed news article that describes a recent criminal case involving the kind of health care facility in which you are interested in working. The case you select may involve fraud or abuse (such as defrauding the Medicare or Medicaid programs, the Stark self-referral law, anti-kickback statute, or price-fixing) or other criminal act, such as patient abuse, murder, or theft. Evaluate the laws that are involved in your case, and consider the ramifications of this criminal action on the individuals and organizations involved.
A good source for cases is the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Consider looking through one or two state websites, which can be accessed at: https://www.namfcu.net/medicaid-fraud-control-units.php.
As you analyze your case and prepare for the Discussion, consider possible motivations behind this criminal act. What could an administrator do to prevent this from happening or to address it effectively once it is detected? Would a compliance program (see “Compliance 101” in this week’s Learning Resources) be of value in preventing or detecting and then correcting this criminal issue?
By Day 3
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Briefly describe the case you selected. Evaluate the state and/or federal laws that are involved in your case. (If you are an international student, evaluate the regional laws that are involved in your case.) Then explain the ramifications of this criminal action for the individuals and organizations involved (for example, states work with the federal government in capturing fraud).
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 4 Discussion
Patient Autonomy or Surrogate Decision Maker?
Patients’ rights in the United States include the right to informed consent, which means that patients must receive adequate information to make medical decisions. However, many questions can arise if a patient appears to lack the capacity to understand his or her medical condition or options.
As a health care administrator, it is your responsibility to educate medical staff about your facility’s policy on obtaining informed consent, reflecting state law, and how to determine whether a patient is competent. It is essential to balance the moral needs of protecting the rights of the patient with the legal and ethical obligations to breach this confidentiality in certain select situations, or determine circumstances requiring a surrogate decision maker.
Medical staff should have no difficulty in following a patient’s wishes specific to health treatment when the patient is a competent adult who can articulate his or her wishes to the medical team. However, what if the medical team is unable to determine competency? How would the team assess mental competency to understand benefits and risks of the medical treatment? If the patient is not competent, how should the medical staff proceed?
To Prepare for This Discussion:
For this Discussion, view the Prompt Video titled “Incident in the ER: Scene 1,” located in this week’s Learning Resources. Then, reflect on the delivery of health care services demonstrated in the Prompt Video regarding determining competency. Reflect on the positive and negative aspects demonstrated and consider how health care administrators should consider these aspects when engaged in practice.
Using the Kaltura Video function as instructed in the left navigation bar, videotape yourself responding to the Challenge Video. Who decides on behalf of the patient if the patient is determined to lack competency? How should a surrogate decision maker proceed on behalf of a patient? How can a healthcare administrator ensure that the patient’s autonomy is ensured and competency is established? How do the facility’s standards and regulations affect how competency is determined?
By Day 3
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Upload your video response to the scenario to the Assignment link. The Discussion Forum will then become available. Post the same video response to the Discussion so your colleagues can view it. Please refer to the following instructions for posting the video response in the Discussion area:
If you have previously uploaded the desired video to Blackboard, there is no need to upload the video again.
From the Mashup Tool, select Kaltura Media. You will then see a list of media that you have previously uploaded to Blackboard. The video that you submitted to the Assignment link should be listed at the top.
Click the Select button that corresponds to the desired video.
Click the Submit button on the confirmation screen to add your video to your post.
Add additional text if desired and then submit the post.
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 5 Discussion
Advance Directive — Interview
The term advance directive refers to several different types of legal documents that may be used by a patient, while competent, to record future wishes in the event the patient lacks decision-making capacity. The choice and meaning of specific advance directive terminology depends on state law. An advance directive or health care directive may combine the functions of a living will and durable power of attorney for health care into one document in one state, but may be equivalent to a living will in another state.
Through advance directives, individuals can communicate to family members and health care providers what treatment options they find acceptable or unacceptable should they become unable to make these decisions later on. As useful as these documents are, they are not always well understood by the public.
For this Discussion, you will interview someone who has not yet completed an advance directive regarding end-of-life planning. Be prepared to explain the purpose and benefit of an advance directive document. You can find your own state’s laws by going to the CaringInfo website listed in the Learning Resources.
To Prepare for This Discussion:
Review the description of advance directives in this week’s Learning Resources.
Download and print an advance directive form that is valid in your state. A link to these forms is available at: http://www.caringinfo.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3289.
Identify an individual you can interview in person about advance directives. This may be a friend, family member, or other acquaintance that has not yet completed an advance directive form.
Sit down with this person, and invite him or her to read the form and consider completing it. It does not matter whether the person actually does so or not. Take notes on any questions the person asks, whether he or she understands the purpose of the form, whether the person thinks the form is a useful way of dealing with future health care issues, and other key points and concerns expressed during the interview.
By Day 3
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Analyze the ways in which an advance directive might support a patient’s legal and ethical rights. Considering the interview you conducted, describe any questions, comments, or concerns your interviewee expressed regarding how an advance directive supports their legal and ethical rights.
Then, evaluate the impact an advance directive might have on end-of-life care from the perspective of health care providers and organizations. Apply ACHE policy for end-of-life planning for patients.
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 6 Discussion
Future Trends in Health Care
Advanced technologies, particularly in the communications and health care industries, are emerging at an astounding rate. The projected trends related to advanced technologies offer patients direct medical information, monitoring of overall health status, and remote diagnosis and treatment, among a vast array of other services. Access to health care is actually being reinterpreted by technology. Although the benefits of this access are undeniable, the possible implications and ethical issues can be challenging to fully understand.
To Prepare for This Discussion:
Consider the technology trends and devices you explored in this week’s Learning Resources. Which of these trends interests you the most or do you think might have the most impact on health care service delivery and/or quality? What kinds of ethical issues might be connected with these trends?
By Day 3
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Evaluate one of the technology trends or devices you found most interesting in your readings. Identify the source in which you read about it and provide a link. Then, analyze at least two ethical issues you believe might be connected with or result from this trend.
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 7 Discussion
What Have We Learned About the PPACA Since It Was Implemented?
In 2015, the PPACA will achieve its 5-year milestone. Since the inception of PPACA, many changes have occurred in the way health care is delivered and purchased by consumers. This week gives you an opportunity for introspective analysis. How well is the PPACA actually working? Is it meeting public expectations? Compare what the research literature says with your own experiences and observations. This should form the basis for your Discussion, with a focus on what has been achieved to date and what can still be improved.
To Prepare for This Discussion:
Read the Levitt article on how well the PPACA is working, as well as articles in this week’s Learning Resources regarding the PPACA. Consider whether or not you agree with the Levitt article, and why. As Levitt asserts, there are always differences of opinion about the law and policy issues. Consider each point discussed by Levitt, including easy online access for people to get information about health insurance options, making insurance more accessible and affordable, and reducing the number of Americans who are uninsured.
By Day 3
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Provide an evaluation (or assessment) of whether or not you agree with Levitt, the author of the article, making sure to address the specific points he outlines, including the online process for obtaining health care information, accessibility, affordability, and reducing the number of uninsured. Support your position by utilizing a minimum of two peer-reviewed resources from the academic literature.
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 8 Discussion
What Drives Health Care Costs?
In this week’s Discussion, you will focus on practical solutions to reducing health care costs while improving quality and access. Because health care in the United States is a business, it is imperative that health care administrators understand that providing safe, quality health care services under budget is one of the single most important performance metrics that they can benchmark for success.
To Prepare for This Discussion:
Choose a health care policy issue in your workplace or community related to cost, quality, or access. You may wish to explore the literature and health care policy websites to ascertain what is working and what might work in your workplace or community.
Note: Take a look at the CMS innovation website if you are interested in looking at some innovative models currently being tested: http://innovation.cms.gov/
By Day 3
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Provide an analysis of the health care policy issue you chose, making sure to address these specific points: describe the health care policy issue you selected; provide and explain the statistics depicting the issue; and explain how this issue relates to health care costs, quality, and access.
When possible, provide examples from your professional experiences to demonstrate cost concerns in your particular field, or use personal anecdotes/stories to illustrate some of the problems that exist.
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 9 Discussion
Learning From State and Local Health Care Reform Efforts
Health care reform efforts are moving toward frameworks that reward providers for the quality of health care delivered rather than the current model, which is focused on quantity. This requires a realignment of how health care is currently reimbursed to providers. To help achieve better care, in 2015, the Obama administration created the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network involving 2,800 payers, providers, employers, patients, states, and consumer groups to help achieve this goal, which is “to transform the nation’s health system to emphasize value over volume” (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2015).
Note: To find current data on health care reform efforts, review the press release in the article, “Better, Smarter, Healthier: Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network Kick Off to Advance Value and Quality in Health Care.”
Considering what you read in this week’s Learning Resources, what insights can you gain from state and local health care reform efforts? Taking the perspective of a health care administrator, how do you think these efforts might inform health care policy reform at the federal level? Is it possible to translate local reform to larger federal reform?
By Day 3
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Describe two key lessons you can take away from state/local health care reform efforts. Explain how these lessons might inform health care policy changes taking place at the federal level, if at all. Next, explain one reform effort that is considered a benchmark at the local level that in some way reduces health care costs, improves quality, or increases access to health care. Provide the link to the article or website in your post.
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 10 Discussion
Health Insurance Accessibility
Federal and state governments have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to create a website through which consumers can purchase health care insurance in the open market. The federal government operates healthcare.gov. Some states have opted not to utilize the federal government’s exchange and approach it on their own. This has proved to be a very costly and disastrous undertaking for some states, such as Maryland, whose situation was described in this week’s introduction.
Oregon also discovered that running its own exchange can be a risky and expensive business. “Although the state has spent an estimated $248 million to get the operation up and running, it never enrolled a single private insurance customer online” (La Ganga, 2014). Oregon claims that it was not a failure of policy; the problems were in the building of the website, making the program virtually inaccessible.
With all the money spent to create these health care exchanges, the question remains: do they really work? In your Discussion this week, you will explore this question.
To Prepare for This Discussion
Browse the California Health Insurance Exchange website, Covered California, in this week’s Learning Resources.
Consider that states are supposed to make these websites user-friendly and appropriate for a person who reads at the eighth-grade level (the typical U.S. public health standard). Reflect on your own experiences in accessing the state exchanges. It may also be helpful to get some additional feedback from friends or family members (not in the health care business) to ascertain their impressions of the websites you are evaluating. Consider the following:
The average American’s health care literacy; in other words, can they comprehend what they are reading on these sites to make an informed choice?
What are your impressions? Is the site user-friendly? Is it easily accessible?
What about support for people with disabilities?
As you evaluate California Health Insurance Exchange website, be sure to look at the “2015 Covered California Shop and Compare Tool” section of the site at: https://www.coveredca.com/shopandcompare/
By Day 3
Post a cohesive response to the following:
Explain whether you believe the California Health Insurance Exchange website is user-friendly and appropriate for the public health standard and why. Explain whether you think this website could be improved to help users select the best insurance options for them, and how.
Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 11 Discussion
Futurescan: Issues Affecting the Health Care System
This week’s readings touched 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.
By Day 3
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.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.
By Day 5
Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ postings and continue the Discussion through Day 7. Expand on the Discussion by explaining how the health care policy issue identified by your colleague might influence or impact your work as a health care administrator, manager, or leader. Then explain how your understanding of legal, ethical, and policy issues might influence your decision making as a health care administrator, manager, or leader.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 2 Assignment
Moral Courage
As a health care administrator, you will be accountable to many people, including employees, patients and their families, the executive board, and the agencies that monitor the organization’s behavior. There may be times when your obligations conflict with each other. What is the best way to approach these conflicts? How can you be sure that you are serving the needs of both patients and the organizations for which you work, while exhibiting professionalism and moral courage?
For this Assignment, you will reflect on your responsibilities as a health care administrator and examine the importance of moral courage in performing well in that role.
To Prepare for this Assignment:
Take the ACHE Ethics Self-Assessment (see your Learning Resources). Review your scores. Consider what these results tell you about your ability to effectively work with ethical and professional challenges in your role as a health care administrator. Think about what these results say about your ability to exhibit moral courage in the face of these challenges.
The Assignment
Write a 2-page Op-Ed piece to be published in a newspaper about what you think moral courage means in your role as a health care administrator. (Review the Learning Resources this week that provide information about how to write an effective Op-Ed piece.)
Include the following in your Op-Ed:
The importance of an administrator to exhibit moral courage
The effects on others in an organization if an administrator models ethical and legal behavior or, on the contrary, illegal or unethical behavior
By Day 7
Submit your Assignment.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK2Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 2 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
Click the Week 2 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK2Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 3Project
Final Project — Select a Topic
Part 1: Select Policymaker and Topic
For the Final Project Part 1, you will conduct extensive research that is focused, current, and most important, accurate. Select a policy that has been enacted into law within the last year or a current Bill that is in the policy development process. The aim of this project is for you to explore the legal, ethical, and policy implications of your selected health care policy issue.
Note: In grading the Final Project, your Instructor uses a Final Project Rubric. Review the rubric prior to completing your Project Component.
All rubrics can also be found in the Course Information area in the course navigation menu.
The Assignment (1 page)
Identify a policymaker in your area. This could be a member of the U.S. Congress from your state of residence, a state represented or other elected official or an equivalent legislative person that you identify if you are from a territory. If you are an international student, you may choose any policymaker in your area who is responsible for enacting health care policy or laws. Provide the name, title, contact information, and web page if available. Also, explain why you selected this policymaker.
Select a health care policy issue of interest that the policymaker you selected supports or opposes. This will be the topic of your Final Project. Feel free to use media resources regarding the issue in order to increase your understanding of how a policy or law can impact the health care issue. Provide a short summary of the health care policy issue you selected.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 5Project
Final Project — Legal and Ethical Foundations
Part 2: Ethical and Legal Foundations
As part of the Final Project, you will provide an analysis of the ethical and legal foundations of the health care policy issue you selected.
Note: In grading the Final Project, your Instructor uses a Final Project Rubric. Review the rubric prior to completing your Project Component.
All rubrics can also be found in the Course Information area in the course navigation menu.
The Assignment (2–3 pages)
Provide an analysis of the ethical and legal foundations of the health care policy issue you selected. Use ethics terms, theories and apply what you have studied in prior weeks. Explain what the ethical issue(s) are, and present the pro and con ethical positions surrounding the health care policy issue. Then, explain what the legal issue is, and present the pro and con legal positions surrounding the health care policy issue. Finally, apply your critical thinking and analysis skills by suggesting two recommendations to the policymaker and/or stakeholder that align with your own position on the ethical and legal issues. Use of supporting references is essential
Add Part 2 onto your file document from Part 1 and label it with a header identifying Part 2. You will submit a cumulative paper that combines both parts. Only Part 2 will be graded this week.
By Day 7
Submit your Assignment.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
Please save your Project using the naming convention “WK5Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 5 Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Project.
Click the Week 5 Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK5Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 7Project
Final Project — Health Care Policy
Part 3: Health Care Policy
For Part 3 of the Final Project, you will provide an analysis of the policy issues surrounding the health care policy issue you selected. This requires significant research of policy analysis and economic, business, consumer and other policy factors related to your selected policy.
Note: In grading the Final Project Part 3, your Instructor uses a Final Project Rubric. Review the rubric prior to completing your Project Component.
All rubrics can also be found in the Course Information area in the course navigation menu.
The Assignment (2–3 pages)
For this component of your Final Project, describe how the health care policy issue you selected is related to policymaking from different broad perspectives, including social, economic, business, and cultural. Include this assignment labeled as Part 3 with a header in your combined file. Submit your cumulative file with Parts 1, 2, & 3 included. Only Part 3 will be graded this week.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 9Assignment
Analyzing Policies From Diverse Perspectives
Whether a health care policy was formulated at the federal (country); state (providence or regional); or local level, policies inevitably have considerable impact on local health care organizations, communities, and relevant stakeholders. In other words, a health care policy that has far-reaching relevance to the nation, state, or region ultimately impacts the grassroots interests and concerns of the community.
To complete the Assignment, select a recent (within the last 5 years) health care policy that has had substantial impact on consumers. In particular, look at a high-impact health care policy to analyze the diverse and divergent perspectives that informed its development and then assess its impact at the local organizational level.
Detailed and current information on health care policy may be found on many websites, including the following:
American Hospital Association (AHA)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
The Kaiser Family Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
American Public Health Association (APHA)
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
After choosing a health care policy, select a local health care organization that is impacted by that policy. This might be a public agency, a health care facility, or any organization substantially influenced by the policy. It also might be the health care organization in which you work. As an administrator in this organization, you have been tasked with preparing an assessment of the impact of the policy on the organization’s operations and outcomes. This task requires you to take a large and complex topic (the policy) and synthesize it into digestible information that organizational stakeholders can strategically use to address issues raised by the policy.
For Part 1 of this assessment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation that explains key points related to the health care policy you selected. This presentation is designed to inform and precede the dissemination of an in-depth policy assessment regarding the impact of the policy on the organization.
For Part 2, you will write an in-depth policy assessment that synthesizes the impact of the health care policy on the organization.
Part 1: PowerPoint Presentation: Key Points of a Health Care Policy
Succinct but accurate dissemination of information is often a key responsibility of a health care administrator, and understanding current changes in health care policy is an important need for many stakeholders within an organization.
For this Assignment, assume the role of a health care administrator and create a PowerPoint presentation to provide stakeholders within the organization foundational information about the policy you selected. In particular, focus on the formulation of the policy and the diverse perspectives of those who had a role in its development. As noted previously, this presentation is designed to inform the subsequent policy assessment you will distribute.
In a 12- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation:
Briefly describe the issue addressed by the policy as well as the background of the policy’s formulation.
Identify key stakeholders involved in the evolution of this policy. Briefly explain the overarching perspectives of these stakeholders with regard to the policy.
Define which of the stakeholders would be considered advocacy groups and which would be classified as business interests. Explain how you differentiate the two categories and why this differentiation matters.
Explain the impact of the policy on key stakeholders (not necessarily within the organization). For example, how does the policy impact consumers? A health care organization?An insurance company?Providers?
Explain the role of various government agencies and officials, including public health agencies, in the formulation and implementation of the policy.
Explain the ongoing role of law and regulation in the formulation and implementation of the policy.
Part 2: Policy Assessment
Once organizational stakeholders have been given foundational and critical information about the health care policy, you will provide them with a succinct, in-depth assessment of the impact of the policy on the organization.
In a 2- to 3-page executive summary:
Briefly discuss the relevance of the policy to the organization.
Explain areas within the organization that will be affected by the policy.
Identify key organizational stakeholders impacted by this policy. Explain how they will be affected.
Assess any community impact that will need to be taken into consideration.
Describe the expected impact of the policy on organizational outcomes.
By Day 7
Submit your Assignment.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK9Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 9 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
Click the Week 9 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK9Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
MMHA6300 Law, Ethics, and Policy
Week 11Project
Submit Your Final Project
Part 4: Letter to a Policymaker
The last component, Part 4, of your Final Project is to write a letter to the policymaker that focuses on your support or opposition to thehealth care policy issue you selected for your project. Your letter should be written in a respectful, formal tone and focus on the evidence supporting your position, rather than merely expressing your personal thoughts and opinions. You should provide evidence from the peer-reviewed literature to support your position and utilize information from Components 2 and 3. Refer back to your work in Parts 1, 2 and 3 to make a compelling argument in your letter. The purpose of this formal letter is to convince the policymaker you have selected back in Part 1, of the need or urgency of support for the policy (or defeat of a current policy). Make your case! Be sure to include your chosen elected official’s actual address and use the correct salutation that is used for your elected official’s position. Label your letter as Part 4: Appendix A and add it as the fourth and final part of your cumulative course project assignment.
You should provide evidence, in the formal letter to your policy maker, from the peer-reviewed literature to support your position and utilize information from Parts 1, 2 and 3 as a unified whole to make your case for support of your position.
All rubrics can also be found in the Course Information area in the course navigation menu.
The Assignment (2–3 pages)
You will submit your Part 4 Final Project as Part 4: Appendix A and add it to your cumulative assignment document. Your instructor will grade only Part 4 for this week but all four parts must be submitted as one unified file in APA format.
Note: If you received an email confirmation from the policymaker, indicating that your letter was accepted, you may submit that as well.
By Day 7
Submit your Assignment.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
Please save your Project using the naming convention “WK11Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 11 Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Project.
Click the Week 11 Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK11Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
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