Managed Care
Running head, MANAGED CARE Cynthia Norris Ashford University Tricia Devin MHA 614: Policy Formation & Leadership in Health Care Organizations
Sunday, July 28, 2013
The focus on this paper is to show how analyzed research on managed care and, the issues of rising exposure to health care costs is threating the wellbeing of American families. Research by Nunez, R., &
Kleiner, B. H. (2012) Gives insight into conducted research to show how research of managed care has increasingly become a leading development in regards to the finances in managed health care. There have been many debates and, much confusion of the origins and, definition of managed care yet, the goals are to reduce costs, increase profits and, still provide quality services. The events that have led to managed care is due to constant changes within the health care management sectors as, all throughout history as, when the industries change there also is a need for change to meet the demands to finance managed care.
The fee- for- services system was used in the U.S. until the twentieth century and, than advance payment was put into place to finance and, manage health care. The reasons for all the rising exposure to health care costs comes from hospitals that choose to become more advanced, have more new technologies which, increased costs onto the patients with higher premiums, patients paying more for services. Hospitals started using new technologies such as, new imaging devices, diagnostic machines, electronic patient filing so, this helped to transform hospitals in keeping up with the new trends, demands of industries and, demands of patients wanting more from hospitals and, getting services they needed yet, it increased costs as, the machines are costly and, hospitals have to have qualified staff to
Sunday, July 28, 2013
The focus on this paper is to show how analyzed research on managed care and, the issues of rising exposure to health care costs is threating the wellbeing of American families. Research by Nunez, R., &
Kleiner, B. H. (2012) Gives insight into conducted research to show how research of managed care has increasingly become a leading development in regards to the finances in managed health care. There have been many debates and, much confusion of the origins and, definition of managed care yet, the goals are to reduce costs, increase profits and, still provide quality services. The events that have led to managed care is due to constant changes within the health care management sectors as, all throughout history as, when the industries change there also is a need for change to meet the demands to finance managed care.
The fee- for- services system was used in the U.S. until the twentieth century and, than advance payment was put into place to finance and, manage health care. The reasons for all the rising exposure to health care costs comes from hospitals that choose to become more advanced, have more new technologies which, increased costs onto the patients with higher premiums, patients paying more for services. Hospitals started using new technologies such as, new imaging devices, diagnostic machines, electronic patient filing so, this helped to transform hospitals in keeping up with the new trends, demands of industries and, demands of patients wanting more from hospitals and, getting services they needed yet, it increased costs as, the machines are costly and, hospitals have to have qualified staff to
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