Discussion: Explain Gatekeeping HLT 205
Explain how gatekeeping lowers health-care costs in the United States. Is gatekeeping the most effective strategy for lowering health-care costs, or are there more effective strategies in use now? Explain your reasoning using references to back it up.
Define the methods of retrospective and prospective reimbursement. How did retroactive reimbursement include perverse financial incentives? Cite a source to back up your response.
Details:
Managed care is the most powerful force shaping the United States’ health-care delivery system. As a health care professional, you must understand the managed care system because it affects all stakeholders. The goal of this assignment is for you to demonstrate your understanding of managed care by creating a PowerPoint presentation that explains the following:
An explanation of managed care organizations (MCOs) and how they work.
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The names of the accrediting bodies for MCOs, as well as an explanation of the types of care they oversee.
HMOs and PPOs are examples of managed care plans.
An explanation of how MCOs affect cost, access, and quality.
An explanation of accountable care organizations and their relationship to managed care organizations.
The PowerPoint presentation will include 10-12 slides as well as detailed speaker notes with in-text citations.
This assignment requires three references (at a minimum) in addition to your text book.
While GCU style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and
references should follow GCU documentation guidelines, which can be found in the Student Success Center’s GCU Style Guide.
A rubric is used for this assignment. Please review the rubric before beginning the assignment to become acquainted with the requirements for successful completion.
This assignment must be submitted to Turnitin. Please follow the steps outlined in the Student Success Center.
HLT 205 Week 4 Discussion 2 Topic 4
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow your essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.