Question

Answer must be 300 words and answer with your own ideas Finally, how are these topics impacted by and how do they impact costs of providing care, the patient’s access to care and ultimately the quality (positively or negatively) of care (can it be achieved or not)?

Answer 1

Ans) Impacting cost, access & quality of care:

Reasons for high cost health care:

- Third party payment
- Imperfect market
- Growth in technology
- Increase in elderly population
- Medical model of health care delivery
- Multipayer system and administrative cost
- Defensive medicine
- Waste and abuse
- Practice variations

• Cost containment, reason its occurring in US:

- Providers make up for lost revenues by increasing utilization
- Providers charge higher prices in other areas free of controls.

Value is defined as the key element in a specific theoretical framework: Value is the product of the quality of care plus the patient experience at a given cost.

- Access to health care impacts one's overall physical, social, and mental health status and quality of life. Barriers to health services include:

~ High cost of care.

~ Inadequate or no insurance coverage.

Thus affecting quality in Health care.

Basically, the goal is to improve patient outcomes without raising cost, or to lower costs without reducing patient outcomes.