Healthcare Financing Discussion Essay Project
The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate the framework and various dimensions of access to care, including delivery, and quality among the health care models.
Choose two models from the Topic 3 assignment that you feel are most effective in providing quality care. In a 1,250-1,500 word paper, answer the following questions:
How is quality monitored?
What are the qualifications for each of the plans?
How do these plans reimburse health care providers?
How much are prevention and wellness emphasized?
What are the primary drivers of health care financing?
Explain what component you feel requires the most reform in order to finance a health care system that covers all, or most, people. Justify your rationale.
Healthcare Regulatory Agencies Discussion
Identify regulatory agencies that regulate health and the health care system within the US, create a table listing your 5 regulatory agencies and address the following:
Agencies:
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Describe the agency, level of regulatory authority (local, state, federal), scope of regulatory authority, and role within the US healthcare system.
Address relevance of the organization or the organization’s authority to the APRN/DNP graduate.
Describe relevance to specialty area, area of practice, or setting of practice. For an example, mental health.
Incorporate at least 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.