HSM 410 Healthcare Policy Complete Course
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Week 1
Week 1 DQ 1
What exactly is Health Care Policy? Who does it affect?
Week 1 DQ 2
Healthcare policy are the rules, regulation and guidelines that exist to operate, finance and shape healthcare delivery. Healthcare policy covers a range of health related issues including the financing of healthcare, public health, preventive healthcare, chronic illness and disability, long-term care and mental health.
Week 2
Week 2 DQ 1
What have been some of the forces driving the organization of U.S. health care?
Week 2 DQ 2
Why have physician reimbursement models changed over the years?
Week 2 Course Project Topic:
HSM 410 Week 2 Course Project Topic (Death with Dignity Act)
Week 3
Week 3 DQ 1
What are some examples of painless cost control? Are these painless for everyone?
Week 3 DQ 2
Describe and provide examples of price and quality controls.
Week 3 Assignment:
HSM 410 Week 3 Assignment; Healthcare Interview Paper (800+ Words)
Week 4
Week 4 DQ 1
What are the primary access to health care concerns of the U.S. public?
Week 4 DQ 2
In the U.S., can a low-income person receive access to high quality care? What policies are in place to promote this?
HSM 410 Week 4 Midterm Exam
1.Question :(TCO 1) Which statement most accurately describes the relationship between health insurance and health?
1- Compared with the insured person, the uninsured tend to be diagnosed at later stages of life-threatening illnesses.(Chapter 3, pg 21-22)
2- Having health insurance has no impact on a person’s overall health. Genetics and lifestyle choices are the only factors proven to impact health.
3- In an effort to avoid high-cost hospitalizations, the uninsured are more likely to practice health maintenance behaviors than those with insurance.
4- People who have health insurance display a 25 percent increased risk of dying when compared to the uninsured.
2.Question :(TCO 2) Which of the following are stakeholders in health care policy?
1- Individuals, Businesses, Consumers, and Purchasers(Answer located on page 193 in textbook)
2- Purchasers, Medical Suppliers, Providers, and Businesses
3- Providers, Hospitals, Physicians, and Insurers
3.Question :(TCO 3) Proportional payments are ________________.
1- The ratio of payment to income that is the same for all classes. (Chapter 2, pg. 14)
2- payments that take a falling percentage of income as income increases.
3- payments that take a rising percentage of income as income increases.
4-A set fee regardless of income.
4.Question :(TCO 4) Which of the following is an effective cost control mechanism?
1- Raising physician fees
2- Capitation payments (Located in Chapter 9 on page 108)
3- Patient cost sharing
4- Risk transfer
5.Question :(TCO 1) How is Health Policy Formed?
1- Through discussion with patients
2- Through the judicial system
3- Through the legislative process
4- Both B and C (Week 1 Lecture)
6.Question :(TCO 3) Which of the following are modes of paying for health care?
1- Capitation, Fee-for-service, and Salary
2- Out-of-pocket payments, individual private insurance, employment-based private insurance, and government financing (Chapter 2, pg 5)
3-Private Insurance and government financing
4- Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurance
1.Question :(TCO 2) What were the most common medical care structures of the first half of the twentieth century?
Instructor Explanation:
Chapter 6, pg 60 Multi-specialty group practice, Community Health Centers, Prepaid group practice
2.Question :(TCO 4) List the methods of physician payment.
Instructor Explanation:
Chapter 4 pg. 32-38 Fee-for-service, Per episode of illness (PPS), Capitation, Salary
3.Question :(TCO 2) What are the three models of organizing care? Provide a brief description of the care provided at each level.
4.Question :(TCO 4) What is the concept of patient cost sharing? Is it painless form of cost control? For whom?
Instructor Explanation:
Chapter 9, pg 104-105. Patient cost sharing refers to patients having to pay out of pocket for some portion of their health care. It can be painless if the cost sharing is modest amounts and not applied to people with low incomes.
5.Question :(TCO 3) Describe why private health insurance coverage has decreased over the past decades, creating the uninsured/under insured crisis? Who are the uninsured?
Week 5
Week 5 DQ 1
Let’s start this week’s discussion with identifying who makes up the baby boomer generation. Please research and post statistics about the baby boomer generation. (Remember to post your sources!)
Week 5 DQ 2
Let’s start by reviewing the financial picture of the long-term care (LTC) industry. Who are the main payers? What are some of the main financial challenges that the industry is facing?
Week 5 Course Project:
Course Project outline ( 600 Words)
Week 6
Week 6 DQ 1
Why are ethics important in the health care environment? Give an example of a ethical situation.
Week 6 DQ 2
What is prevention? Why is it important?
Week 6 Assignment:
HSM 410 Week 6 Week 6 Assignment; Ethical Considerations Paper (800 Words)
Week 7
Week 7 DQ 1
Do you think that the U.S. Health Care System should move away from employer-based to a universal health care system? Why or why not? (Support your opinion!)
Week 7 DQ 2
Please post articles relating to the current health care debate (employer-based vs. universal health care), political views of health care reform, or information on the future of the health care industry (as it pertains to any of the topics discussed in the class).
Week 7 Course Project
Final Paper; An Individual Right to Die (2900 Words)
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