Describe painful and painless cost controls that result from health care legislation. What are the implications for stakeholders?
Cost control strategies mean to reduce administrative cost, cost of surgery,etc. The difference between painful and painless cost control is that painful cost reduction affect business negatively and painless cost control do not affect business.Painless cost control means reducing price of pharmaceuticals, reducing waste of administration, using less costly technologies rather than using costly technologies .Painless cost control method reduce the medical expenditures and lead to better allocation of resources.From consumers point of approach out of pocket payment is considered painful.Some patients are not in a position to pay out of pocket and so medical services to them get delayed which proves harmful to the health of patients..
The trend that will affect multiple health care stakeholders in the next few years are patients will become more informed, properly structured measures in health care will grow,new and alternative models of payment to providers will develop,new information technology will develop which will help in communications between stakeholders,consolidation of revenue,use of special drug which would increase the cost of health care.All these will impact health care decision making and will also affect the role of the stake holders.
Describe painful and painless cost controls that result from health care legislation. What are the implications...
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