The Healthcare Market

The Healthcare Market

Use the Internet to research the current health care delivery structures—both private and public—within your state.

Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:

Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state. Compare and contrast the major determinants of healthcare market power. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery system in your state, and compare the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation. Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response. Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own state. Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan itself. Use at least five (5) current references. Three of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Explain how selected economic principles apply to the health care market and the provision of health care services. Analyze the factors that are influencing the demand and supply of health care services in the U.S. Assess current economic trends that influence the cost, quality, and access to care. Use technology and information resources to research issues in health economics. Write clearly and concisely about health economics using proper writing mechanics

Points: 240 Assignment 2: The Healthcare Market
Criteria Unacceptable
Below 70% F Fair
70-79% C Proficient
80-89% B Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state. Compare and contrast the major determinants of healthcare market power.
Weight: 15% Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the current health care delivery structure in your state. Did not submit or incompletely compared and contrasted the major determinants of healthcare market power. Partially analyzed the current health care delivery structure in your state. Partially compared and contrasted the major determinants of healthcare market power. Satisfactorily analyzed the current health care delivery structure in your state. Satisfactorily compared and contrasted the major determinants of healthcare market power. Thoroughly analyzed the current health care delivery structure in your state. Thoroughly compared and contrasted the major determinants of healthcare market power.
2. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery system in your state, and compare the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation.
Weight: 15% Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery system in your state; did not submit or incompletely compared the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation. Partially analyzed the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery system in your state; partially compared the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation. Satisfactorily analyzed the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery system in your state; satisfactorily compared the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation. Thoroughly analyzed the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery system in your state; thoroughly compared the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation.
3. Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response.
Weight: 15% Did not submit or incompletely evaluated the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Did not submit or incompletely provided a rationale for your response. Partially evaluated the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Partially provided a rationale for your response. Satisfactorily evaluated the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Satisfactorily provided a rationale for your response. Thoroughly evaluated the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Thoroughly provided a rationale for your response.
4. Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own state.
Weight: 15% Did not submit or incompletely assessed the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own state. Partially assessed the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own state. Satisfactorily assessed the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own state. Thoroughly assessed the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own state.
5. Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan itself.
Weight: 15% Did not submit or incompletely Partially Satisfactorily Thoroughly
6. 5 references (or number in the assignment)
Weight: 5% No references provided Does not meet the required number of references; some or all references poor quality choices. Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices. Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.
7. Writing Mechanics, Grammar, and Formatting
Weight: 5% Serious and persistent errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting. Partially free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting. Mostly free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting. Error free or almost error free grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting.
8. Appropriate use of APA in-text citations and reference section
Weight: 5% Lack of in-text citations and / or lack of reference section. In-text citations and references are provided, but they are only partially formatted correctly in APA style. Most in-text citations and references are provided, and they are generally formatted correctly in APA style. In-text citations and references are error free or almost error free and consistently formatted correctly in APA style.
9. Information Literacy/Integration of Sources
Weight: 5% Serious errors in the integration of sources, such as intentional or accidental plagiarism, or failure to use in-text citations. Sources are partially integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
Sources are mostly integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
10. Clarity and Coherence of Writing
Weight: 5% Information is confusing to the reader and fails to include reasons and evidence that logically support ideas Information is partially clear with minimal reasons and evidence that logically support ideas Information is mostly clear and generally supported with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas

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