Description
Healthcare economics is a subject of increasing importance as a result of the substantial changes that are expected to radically alter the way Americans obtain and finance healthcare. Understanding Healthcare Economics: Managing Your Career in an Evolving Healthcare System provides an evidence-based framework to help practitioners comprehend the changes already underway in our nation’s healthcare system. It presents important economic facts and explains the economic concepts needed to keep in mind the implications of these facts. It also summarizes the result of up to date empirical studies on access, cost, and quality problems in today’s healthcare system.
Explaining what the term healthcare crisis means, the book evaluates key reforms designed to ameliorate the crisis. It examines emerging trends in the healthcare delivery system to provide a clear understanding of the implications of recently implemented policy solutions. It also illustrates how public- and private-sector initiatives are working to reduce cost increases by fundamentally altering the systems for delivery of care through managed care organizations, accountable care organizations, and patient-centered medical homes.
The text identifies the pressures for change and examines six emerging strategies that can help boost efficiencies in the healthcare system. It addresses the macro-economic problems, such as the have an effect on of changing demographics, in addition to the micro-economic problems, such as way of life choices on healthcare costs.
Demystifying the terminology, facts, and types of changes that are currently underway, the book offers you the understanding of healthcare economics it is important to identify viable strategies for adapting to the changes on the horizon.