Discussion: Defining the Future of Healthcare Policy in Practice Access to care, cost of care, and quality of care: what do they have in common? As you’ve learned, they are dimensions of performance...

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Discussion: Defining the Future of Healthcare Policy in Practice Access to care, cost of care, and quality of care: what do they have in common?  As you’ve learned, they are dimensions of performance used to assess a healthcare system (e.g., addressed in Assignment #2), which also makes them an important policy issue. In your Learning Resources this week, Barr (2016) states that “the conundrum of U.S. health care [is] that all three [exist] simultaneously and that attempting to remedy one [will] inevitably affect the others” (p. 355). For example, if we try to control costs, then we either have to decrease access to care and/or compromise quality of care. With this in mind, what do you think is the best course for healthcare policy to follow in the future? You have spent much of the last five weeks examining how others have created the current state of healthcare policy. In this final Discussion, you will assume the role of policy maker and create a policy that addresses access to care, quality of care, or cost of care. Recall that some of the performance dimensions have multiple indicators. For example, patient safety is an indicator of quality of care. Similarly, having medical insurance is an indicator of access to care. To prepare for this Discussion: · Review this week's Learning Resources. Pay particular attention to the Learning Resources that discuss trends in healthcare policy and/or practice. · Review Healthcare policy in the United States (Ballotpedia, n.d.) in Week 1 Learning Resources. https://ballotpedia.org/Healthcare_policy_in_the_United_States · Select a specific setting (e.g., any healthcare setting, workplace, prison, etc.) · Create a healthcare policy that you would like to put into place within this setting (e.g., providing health insurance to all employees, offering health screenings to prisoners). · Frame the policy using at least one dimension of performance (or an indicator, such as patient safety) and be sure the policy is realistic and complies with current law. By Day 4 Post a comprehensive response to the following: · Summarize your healthcare policy. Be sure to indicate which dimension(s) of performance or indicator(s) was used to frame your policy. · What is the setting where the policy will be implemented? Why did you choose this setting? · Who are the stakeholders of the policy? What role do they each play? · What are the goals of your policy? In other words, what are you hoping the policy will do or accomplish? · Who will be affected by the policy? · What are some barriers that you may encounter during development and implementation? · Support your post with in-text citations and references from specific Learning Resources and at least one outside scholarly source. Note: Initial postings must be 250–350 words (not including references). INDUSTRY TRENDS 48 l American Health & Drug Benefits l www.AHDBonline.com February 2018 l Vol 11, No 1 When this view into 2018 was developed, Senate failures to repeal, re- place, or change the Affordable Care Act (ACA) had occurred, and left the market unchanged from a legisla- tive perspective. Regardless, relentless market change before and after the implementation of the ACA has left ACA exchanges in financial trouble, providers facing decreased reimbursement, and consumers with limited access to plans by metropolitan statistical area across the country. As a result, commercial health insurance through traditional carriers and employer self-funded market trends have been re-energized. Many trends from the past 2 years continue, albeit in a transformed way because of the effect of unknown change in the public (ie, government) sector market, along with the tax reform legislation. Information tech- nology remains important, but its user base and timing to deliver information are shifting, along with potential disruptive applications that will, in their own way, trans- form market trends. In addition, technology innovations will need to demonstrate a positive return on investment. A clear consumer focus has emerged, along with efforts to transform the healthcare experience to more positively use a mostly unchanged delivery system and supply chain. 8 Themes Reveal Key Healthcare Trends Going into 2018, with an eye on 2020, we have iden- tified 8 themes that surround many key trends in this energized US market. Rural Healthcare Outside of the largest cities and some suburban hospi- tals where many health systems have formed, many pa- tients in the United States receive care from smaller, rural institutions that offer challenges for patients and providers. According to the American Hospital Associa- tion, “Rural hospitals provide essential health care ser- vices to nearly 57 million people.”1 The number of people living in rural (nonmetropoli- tan) counties declined by nearly 200,000 between 2010 and 2016, which is the first recorded period of rural pop- ulation decline.2 With government programs in constant danger of fi- nancial cost-saving spending cuts, rural healthcare provid- ers are in crisis. According to the National Rural Hospital Association, “Currently one in three rural hospitals is in financial risk. At the current rate of closure, 25% of all rural hospitals will close within less than a decade.”3 Adding to the unique problems of rural healthcare are the decreasing number of physicians, the growth of high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), a lack of choices of private exchanges, and the opioid epidemic. Takeaway: Rural healthcare providers and hospitals will continue to turn to leveraging new technology as they experience population loss. Technologies, such as telehealth and telemedicine, and consumer health wear- ables or smartphones, can enable rural-based care sys- tems to consolidate specialty care services and referrals as ways to survive and grow in an evolving market. Consumerism in Healthcare Healthcare consumerism is defined by the Institute for HealthCare Consumerism’s IHC Forum as, “transform- ing an employer’s health benefit plan into one that puts economic purchasing power—and decision-making—in the hands of participants. This is best achieved by sup- plying employees with the decision-making information and support tools they need, along with financial incen- tives, rewards, and other benefits that encourage person- al involvement in altering health and health care pur- chasing behaviors.”4 As costs for consumers continue to rise, consumers become more engaged in making certain they are getting the best value for their money. They have come to expect transparency and choice in their healthcare experience. The success of healthcare providers will depend on their ability to meet consumers’ needs and expectations. Providers will be the primary source for education, infor- mation, and the tools that patients need to take owner- ship of their health. Growing in parallel with increased consumer en- gagement in healthcare is the increase in benefit choic- es offered to employees by their employers. More com- panies are offering HDHPs alongside traditional plans, as employers look to shift some of the healthcare costs to employees. The baby boom generation continues to drive health- care and pharmaceutical choices and costs, and will Healthcare Trends for 2018 By F. Randy Vogenberg, PhD, RPh; John Santilli, MBA Dr Vogenberg is Principal, Institute for Integrated Healthcare, Founding Partner, National Institute of Collaborative Healthcare, Greenville, SC, and Adjunct Professor, University of Rhode Island, College of Pharmacy, Kingston; Mr Santilli is President, Access Market Intelligence, Trumbull, CT, and Founding Partner, National Institute of Collaborative Healthcare. INDUSTRY TRENDS 49 www.AHDBonline.com l American Health & Drug Benefits lVol 11, No 1 l February 2018 continue to do so for some time. However, baby boomers will soon be eclipsed in driving healthcare and drug trends: millennials outnumber baby boomers by approxi- mately 7.7 million.5 Takeaway: As patients, millennials will influence the future of healthcare in new ways, as their use of online resources and telehealth continues to grow. Like baby boomers and Generation Xers changed aspects of health- care, millennials are fully the first generation expected to share the burden of their health benefits. They believe that healthcare costs are too high and that third-party health payers or insurers have too much power. Workforce Change Employment in the United States is undergoing in- tense changes, and an analysis of government data from a survey by the Pew Research Center shows that employ- ment in occupations that require more education and training are on the rise, and many workers are realizing that retraining and upgrading their skills are lifetime commitments.6 The workplace now encompasses multi- ple generations representing a wide variation in skills, life experiences, technical training, and college educa- tion. Such a diverse workforce environment also creates challenges for healthcare.7 The most difficult aspect of managing a workplace comprising different generations of employees remains communication. The workplace has lagged behind the rest of society in communications. Employees have be- come used to real-time communication in their home lives, and they expect the same from their employers. It is estimated that US consumers now spend 5 hours daily on mobile devices.8 Many companies experience a large technology gap in corporate communications. E-mail, which lags behind mobile applications in communicating immediacy, re- mains the primary means of workplace communications. Employees often lack access to computers or company e-mail addresses at work. Companies often do not use the most effective internal communication tools to reach their employees. The physical workplace is also changing for employers. Today’s “borderless” workforce includes those in the Unit- ed States and abroad, employees in an office, those work- ing remotely at home or at a satellite facility, and other employees who are not connected but who perform criti- cal service functions depending on the industry. Most re- cently, there has been an increase in office-based employ- ees and a decrease in home-based employees, as companies seek to optimize their customer solutions. This is a reversal from the previous trend of home-based employment to more in-office and shared office space to maximize inter- actions, creativity, and productivity among workers. An article on working from home states, “The per- centage of workers doing all or some of their work at home increased from 19% in 2003 to 24% in 2015…. Among those in management, business, financial opera- tions and professional jobs, the percentage was 35-38%. And 68% of U.S. workers say that they expect to work remotely in the future.”9 The author continues, “Indus- tries that are most likely to offer remote work include the computer and information technology fields, medical and health, and government and finance.”9 Takeaway: As a way of improving overall communi- cations with
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Health Care Policies in US:
In private sectors the health care policies are largely owned. The Heal
thcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) provides health booster healthcare professional also in organizations at the time of conduction of evaluation of assessments. The legal person proposed some healthcare care plan which is as follow:
1) Medicare
2) Medicaid
3) Children’s Health Insurance program
4) Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
5) Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996
6) Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005
7) Affordable Care Act of 2010
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Taking the insurance plan, we can go to the medical organization or doctors for the different benefits like, providing better services and break it from serious illness.
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