Select a health care issue or situation. Some examples include the following: The aging population Changing technology Health care insurance issues - underinsured, uninsured, and so on Health care spending Health care reform Pharmaceuticals
Create an outline in paragraph form that includes ideas for:
An analysis of the effectiveness of current procedures that are in place for the issue or situation selected o Analysis is based on evolutional perspectives on health care economics and economic theories. The following questions are addressed: o How has the evolution of health care affected the financial decision-making process in your selected issue or situation? o How has the evolution of health care affected the financial decision-making process in general? o How has the financial decision-making process affected your chosen issue or situation? o What affect does the policy and regulatory environment have on the financial decision-making process and your chosen issue or situation? Recommendations for improvement strategies based on economic theories on the financial-decision making process and economic concepts are included. The following items are addressed: o Key players o Microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives and utilization o Tools that support best practices o Benchmarking o How policy and regulatory environment affects financial management in the health care industry o Economic incentives and competition Global implications