Posted: November 29th, 2016

Assess the value of health care professionals and decision makers understanding the discipline of health economics

Select at least five (5) economic concepts covered in the first four (4) weeks’ readings, and discuss the primary manner in which these concepts impact the world of health care economics. Some examples of selected concepts are health demand and supply, elasticity, resources, health measures, and costs.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you: 1. Assess the value of health care professionals and decision makers understanding the discipline of health economics. 2. Defend or critique the importance of considering the complex nature of health and health care when examining the economic principles related to health care delivery. 3. Analyze the primary potential benefits of learning about health economics related to government involvement in health care economics, financing, and delivery. 4. Analyze the main potential benefits of learning about health economics related to private sector government involvement in health care economics, financing, and delivery. 5. Use at least five (5) current references. Three (3) of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: • Explain how selected economic principles apply to the health care market and the provisions of health care services. • Analyze the factors that are influencing the demand and supply of health care services in the U.S. • Assess current economic trends that influence the cost, quality, and access to care. • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health economics. • Write clearly and concisely about health economics using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric. Points: 200 Assignment 1: Implications of Health Economic Concepts for Health Care Criteria Unacceptable Below 70% F Fair 70-79% C Proficient 80-89% B Exemplary 90-100% A 1. Assess the value of health care professionals and decision makers understanding the discipline of health economics. Thoroughly assessed the value of health care professionals and decision makers understanding the discipline of health economics. 2. Defend or critique the importance of considering the complex nature of health and health care when examining the economic principles related to health care delivery.Thoroughly defended or critiqued the importance of considering the complex nature of health and health care when examining the economic principles related to health care delivery. 3. Analyze the primary potential benefits of learning about health economics related to government involvement in health care economics, financing, and delivery.Thoroughly analyzed the primary potential benefits of learning about health economics related to government involvement in health care economics, financing, and delivery. 4. Analyze the main potential benefits of learning about health economics related to private sector government involvement in health care economics, financing, and delivery. Thoroughly analyzed the main potential benefits of learning about health economics related to private sector government involvement in health care economics, financing, and delivery. Information is provided in a clear, coherent, and consistent manner with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.

Assignment 2: The Health Care Market Due Week 6 and worth 240 points

Use the Internet or Strayer online database to research the current health care delivery structures—both private and public—within your state.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state. Compare and contrast the major determinants of health care market power. 2. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your health care delivery system in your state, and compare the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation. 3. Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a health care facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response. 4. Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of health care services in your own state. 5. Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan itself. 6. Use at least five (5) current references. Three (3) of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: • Explain how selected economic principles apply to the health care market and the provision of health care services. • Analyze the factors that are influencing the demand and supply of health care services in the U.S. • Assess current economic trends that influence the cost, quality, and access to care. • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health economics. • Write clearly and concisely about health economics using proper writing mechanics.

1. Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state. Compare and contrast the major determinants of health care market power. Thoroughly analyzed the current health care delivery structure in your state. Thoroughly compared and contrasted the major determinants of health care market power. 2. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your health care delivery system in your state, and compare the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation. Satisfactorily analyzed the main competitive forces in the your health care delivery system in your state; satisfactorily compared the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation. Thoroughly analyzed the main competitive forces in the your health care delivery system in your state; thoroughly compared the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation. 3. Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a health care facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response. Satisfactorily evaluated the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a health care facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Satisfactorily provided a rationale for your response. Thoroughly evaluated the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a health care facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Thoroughly provided a rationale for your response. 4. Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of health care services in your own state. Thoroughly assessed the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of health care services in your own state. 5. Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan itself. Thoroughly proposed who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan itself.

6. 5 Current references (or number in the assignment) Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices. 7. Writing Mechanics, Grammar, and Formatting 8. Appropriate use of APA in-text citations and reference section In-text citations and references are error free or almost error free and consistently formatted correctly in APA style. 9. Information Literacy/Integration of Sources as intentional or accidental plagiarism, or failure to use in-text citations. Sources are partially integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Sources are mostly integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. 10. Clarity and Coherence of Writing Weight: 5% Information is confusing to the reader and fails to include reasons and evidence that logically support ideas. Information is partially clear with minimal reasons and evidence that logically support ideas. Information is mostly clear and generally supported with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas. Information is provided in a clear, coherent, and consistent manner with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.