Purchase Solution

Healthcare Management Competitive Forces

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Please provide 3 pages please!
"Georgia"
1. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery system in Georgia, 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.
2. 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.
3. Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own state.
4. Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan itself.
5. Use at least five (3) current references. Three of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The expert analyzes the competitive forces in healthcare management. The positive benefits and negative aspects are evaluated.

Solution Preview

What doctors think about the impact of managed care tools on quality of care, costs, autonomy, and relations with patients Marie Deom, Thomas Agoritsas, Patrick A Bovier and Thomas V Perneger* BMC Health Services Research 2010, 10:331 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-10-331 Retrieved from database http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/10/331

Met Needs, Unmet Needs, and Satisfaction Among Social HMO Members. Academic Journal By: Leutz, Walter; Capitman, John. Journal of Aging & Social Policy. 2007, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p1-19. 19p.

Comparing Public and Private Choices of Managed Health Care Plans: Rhetoric versus Reality. Academic Journal By: Reddick, Christopher G.. Public Personnel Management , Fall2007, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p223-245, 23p, 7 Charts Abstract:

1. Analyze the main competitive forces in the healthcare delivery system in Georgia, 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.

http://kff.org/health-reform/fact-sheet/the-georgia-health-care-landscape/

The competitive forces in Georgia's healthcare delivery system are similar to other states wherein the majority of citizens in the state of Georgia are covered by private health insurers. The market is primarily predicated upon citizens enrolled in employer health insurance plans or private health insurance plans. Over 58% of Georgians are covered by private health insurance. The rest of insured Georgians are covered by Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Over 20% of Georgians are enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP, which are able to provide insurance to those unable to afford private coverage and are from the lower socioeconomic class.

The access to care within the state of Georgia is obtained primarily through community health centers and hospitals for low-income and underserved patients who receive Medicaid and (CHIP) wherein primary, preventive, and acute care services are provided in the market. The state of Georgia is home to 29 federally qualified health centers. The competitive forces are predicated upon the number of uninsured patients that are attempting to enroll in the Healthcare Marketplace under the Affordable Care Act as well. ...

Solution provided by:
Stephen Washington, MS
Education
  • BS, Sam Houston State University, 1903 University Avenue, Huntsville, Tx 77340
  • MS, Prairie View A&M University
Recent Feedback
  • "awesome"
  • "awesome"
  • "Awesome appreciate the assistance."
  • "Thanks awesome. more to follow"
  • "awesome, Thanks for the assistance"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Test your health planning and program evaluation knowledge

Health planning and program evaluation is an important aspect of the Health Sciences' field. Organizations and communities must understand the needs of their audiences, and a way to obtain this datum is through proper design and assessment. This quiz will test your ability to understand the importance of planning and evaluation in the health sector.

Crohn's Disease

How much do you know about this condition?

Stress Continuum

All humans experience stress and a certain level is motivating for learning. However, a high level of stress for prolonged periods of time may have a negative impact. This information focuses on the four stages of stress. Understanding stress assists in maintaining a healthy level.

First Aid

Do you know how to provide first aid?

What everyone should know about MRSA

This quiz focuses on what everyone should know about community MRSA. Community MSRA is an infection in healthy people.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Help with Health Care Questions

    Management must address internal and external factors within the hospital to ensure that their hospital can remain competitive in the healthcare field.

  • Clinical Research Organization

    When completed, the Five Forces Worksheet clearly identifies all five competitive forces that entities currently face or could potentially face, as illustrated in Figure 28-3.

  • Michael Porter's Five Forces Model

    The five forces analysis assumes that there are five important forces that determine competitive power in business situation. These five forces are: 1. Supplier Power in which you ask how easy it is for suppliers to drive up. 2.

  • Human Resource Management in Healthcare

    450259 Human Resource Management in Healthcare Please help with the following problem: List three issues and environmental forces facing human resource management in the health care setting today.

  • The Effects of Economic Forces in Healthcare

    432239 The Effects of Economic Forces in Healthcare Discuss how economic forces in the marketplace affect the health care industry and health care management.

  • Applying Porter's Five Forces to the Health Industry

    Thus, the Porter's Five Forces can be illustrated to gaining understanding of the competitive position for the health industry.

  • Healthcare Informatics and Information Systems

    Driving forces represent all forces capable of coercing for and elevating change in the systems management paradigm. One example of this entails senior management's support and mandate.

  • Strategic Management and Health Policy

    Healthcare institutions can leverage on strategic management techniques to establish a strong competitive position for themselves in the competitive healthcare industry.

  • Strategic Management: External Forces in Nursing and Healthcare Organizations

    491334 External Forces in Nursing and Healthcare Organizations What external forces affect nursing and health care organizations? How does the external environment affect strategic management in the health care industry?

View More Related Solutions