HSA 510 (HSA510)

Assignment_1_Implications_of_Health_Care_Economic_Concepts_of_Health_Care

HSA 510 Week 2 Discussion Questions & Answers Individual Factors That Influence Demand Demand is simply the need of a product or service in a select market. With that, several factors can influence demand such as pricing, income of the consumer, and expectations. Pricing of a product can attract a certain group of consumers or deter them. Given that most consumers of healthcare have to buy multiple products, a low price can lead to the purc...

HSA 510 Week 9 Discussion, Reform of Healthcare Market and Regulation and Antitrust Policy in Health Care From the e-Activity, synthesize the primary ways in which consumer and provider incentives work together to achieve cost reduction under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Provide at least one (1) example of such synthesis to support your response. Defend or critique the key provisions of antitrust legislation in the United States. Analyze the major ways in which quality issues in health care ...

SA 510 Week 8 Discussion, Financing Healthcare and Public Health Insurance Defend or critique the primary alternative sources of healthcare funding in the United States. Analyze the main effect on the resource owner of one (1) of the following means of financing healthcare: insurance premiums, tax subsidies, and mandated benefits. Provide at least one (1) example which illustrates the selected effect to support your response. Analyze the key types of policies required for the delivery of a pub...

HSA 510 Week 7 Discussion, Economic Evaluation of Health and value Judgment and Evaluation Evaluate the efficacy of major types of health clinical outcomes one can use in economic evaluation analysis. Provide at least one (1) example to support your response concerning clinical outcomes (e.g., infant mortality, average longevity, leading chronic disease, etc.) that one can use in order to conduct economic evaluation. From the e-Activity, compare and contrast alternative healthcare delivery arr...

HSA 510 Week 6 Discussion, Health Insurance and the Labor Market Analyze the implications of adverse selection in insurance markets that contain information asymmetry and community ratings. Justify your response. Analyze the primary ways in which analysts may use a model of the labor market to explain wage and employment figures for healthcare workers. Propose the main ways in which health status affects workers’ compensation overall. Provide at least one (1) example the model in use to sup...

HSA 510 Week 10 Discussion, Evolving Issues in Health Care Propose several current and future economic issues confronting and changing the healthcare system. Analyze the significant implications of the issues in question for market efficiency of the healthcare system. Provide a rationale for your response. Compare and contrast the U.S. health care delivery system relative to spending per capita and ranking of healthcare outcomes with the health care system of two (2) other countries. Provide a...

HSA 510 Week 5 Discussion, Competitive Markets, Price, Quality, and Monopoly From the e-Activity, analyze at least two (2) primary economic assumptions. Examine their short- and long-term impact on promoting the competitive market model in the healthcare environment. Evaluate the fundamental reasons why price and utilization economic factors in the healthcare setting influence competitive market status in regard to supply and demand for health care services. Provide at least one (1) example of ...

HSA 510 Week 4 Discussion, Capitation, Payers, and Provider Behavior Suggest at least one (1) method by which capitation rates are ….for health maintenance organizations in Medicare. Provide one (1) example of an HMO with these types of set rates in order to support your response. Compare the primary available economic resources that health insurance payers may use to monitor, assess, and regulate health care providers’ behavior. Evaluate the degree to which alternative provider payment me...