HCS 552 Week 6 Individual Assignment Health Care Economic Issues Presentation

HCS 552 Week 6 Individual Assignment Health Care Economic Issues Presentation

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 Complete the Health Care Economic Issues Presentation.

Prepare a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes that includes the following information:

An analysis of the effectiveness of current procedures that are in place for the issue or situation you have selected. You should:   

•  Analyze how the evolution of health care has affected the financial decision-making process in your selected issue or situation   

•  Analyze how the evolution of health care has affected the financial decision-making process in general   

•  Analyze how the financial decision-making process has affected your chosen issue or situation   

•  Analyze the effect the policy and regulatory environment has had on the financial decision-making process of your chosen issue or situation   

•  Analyze the effect the policy and regulatory environment has had on the financial decision-making process in the health care industry in general In your presentation, base your analysis on evolutional perspectives on health care economics and economic theories while completing the following:   

•  Examine who is involved in financial decision-making.   

•  Analyze what are the steps in the financial decision-making process.   

•  Examine what some of the specific outcomes that resulted from changes to the financial decision-making process.   

•  Analyze what some of the specific outcomes that resulted from changes in the regulatory environment.   

•  Analyze how your issue or situation has been affected by the changes. In your presentation, recommend improvement strategies based on economic theories on the financial-decision making process and economic concepts.  Include the following:   

•  Differentiate key players involved in the issue or situation.   

•  Differentiate microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives and utilization.   

•  Examine tools that support best practices.   

•  Distinguish how benchmarking has been and can be used in financial-decision making processes and economic concepts.   

•  Differentiate economic incentives and competition. 

 •  Distinguish global implications in financial decision-making processes and economic concepts. Cite a minimum of four sources.