Health Care Delivery Systems Case Study

Justin Lucas Chp 1 1. The process of controlling the expenses required to operate an organization or perform a project within pre-planned budgetary constraints. It remains an elusive goal because it projects the budgetary level for the financial plan. 2. The two main objectives of an health care delivery system is to provide fast and reliable service to its clients. Also they look to develop better technology to support their clients. 3. Financing, insurance, delivery, and payment. Financing = is necessary to obtain health insurance or to pay for health care services. Insurance = protects the insured against catastrophic risks when needing expensive health care services. Delivery = provision of health care services by various providers. Payment = deals with reimbursement to providers for services
7. The U.S health care system is considered imperfect because it has many insurance and patient care flaws that result in poor quality and inadequate standards. 8. The insurance function introduces a third party into the transaction between the patient and the provider. 9. Key players in the system are the physicians, administrators of health service institutions, insurance executives, large employers, and the government. A positive effect of opposing forces is that they decline any one entity from overpowering the system. One negative, is they also make it hard to achieve system wide reforms. 10.The government is a financier backer of the health care delivery system through the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The government filters the eligibility of those who can receive services under these programs; 11.It is necessary for them to understand the system and its entirety because with proper knowledge the job can be done more efficiently and can be overall more productible. 12.Authors recommend that every leader of an department of the company should be on the same page and have the overall goal of maxing profits and declining workplace