HSA 540 Week 11 Discussion Q: As it relates to your choice of professions in the field of healthcare administration, specify the most important concept that you learned from this course. In your opinion, discuss at least two (2) possible changes to current healthcare policy that you can foresee in the second half of the 21st century.

HSA 540 Week 10 Discussion - Managed Care Assume the role of a consultant advising a benefits manager for a local telecommunications organization. The company is self-funded and has 25,000 employees, dependents, and retirees eligible for health benefits. The employees are currently enrolled in a managed PPO plan administered by a commercial insurer. The employer’s health plan costs have increased by 15% over the prior year. Therefore, leaders are considering more cost effective options. Identi...

HSA 540 Week 7 Discussion: Laboratory Information Management Systems Q: You are the senior technician in an expanding laboratory. You have been using a manual system for managing information and storing data. Your organization is transitioning from the manual process and will be implementing a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). As leader of the transition team, your manager has asked you to recommend a LIMS that would enable the organization to improve efficiency and better serve i...

HSA 540 WEEK 5 DISCUSSION "Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) and the MinuteClinic" Please respond to the following: • Read the case study titled “MinuteClinic,”. Predict whether or not embracing the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard will either benefit or damage MinuteClinic’s overall profitability. • Visualize three (3) patient issues that may arise as a result of implementing an electronic record that can be easily transferred from clinic to physician. Next, ...

HSA 540 WEEK 8 DISCUSSION "Managing Prescription Drug Costs" Please respond to the following: The issue of rising prescription drug costs has garnered a significant amount of discourse in recent years. The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (Medicare Part D) established a prescription drug program for Medicare and provided drug coverage for Medicare enrollees. The Act expressly prohibited Medicare from negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. The lac...

HSA 540 Week 3 Discussion: Healthcare Financial Management Q: According to the textbook, consumer-driven health plans often rely on large deductibles funded via a health savings account framework. Suggest two (2) scenarios that depict the potential effect(s) of a large deductible on price elasticity for health services. Theorize one (1) possible outcome of your proposed scenarios.

HSA 540 WEEK 2 DISCUSSION: Medicaid Expansion and the Affordable Care Act Read the Senate Bill HB 707 for the state of Georgia located in Week 2. You may also view the article at http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143506.pdf. Next, predict the impact of Senate Bill HB 707 on the expansion of Medicaid in the State of Georgia. Defend or critique the implications of Georgia’s HB 707 on Georgia’s uninsured population. Support your position using a minimum of two (2) sources from the t...

HSA 540 WEEK 1 DISCUSSION: Improving Access to Care in the United States Read the article titled, “Equitable Access to Care — How the United States Ranks Internationally” located in Week 1 of the online course. You may also view the article at http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1406707. Next, construct an argument to defend or refute claims suggesting a need to implement universal health coverage in the United States. Provide context or background information that lays the foundatio...