Finance chapter 1 & 2 Flashcards
Substitutability
- resources can be dedicated to many uses
- what is the value of a alternate resource?
Heterogeneous preferences
- ones persons pleasure is another persons poison
Marginal cost=
Change in cost for one-unit increase in quantity
Marginal utility=
Change in utility for one-unit increase in quantity
(utility is sometimes called benefit)
to increase production you might have to increase ___
marginal cost of production
Demand Curve
- quantity demanded at alternative prices
- if price changes you move along the curve
What causes changes in the demand curve?
- income (insurance reimbursement increase)
- Price of related goods (LPN/LVN wages)
- preferences (CNO preferes RN)
What does the demand curve measure?
marginal benefit- which is what you would be willing to pay for something
what is the supply curve?
- quantity supplied at alternative prices
- if prices change you move along the curve
- measures marginal curve for workers
What cause a shift in the supply curve?
- size of workforce
- input prices
What does the affordable care act do?
- quality and value improvement
- center for medicare and medicaid innovation
- integrated health systems (accountable care organizations) - value based purchasing program
- bundled payment program for medicare
- review of insurance plan rate increases
- independent payment advisory board aimed to extend life of medicare trust fund
- 85% of insurance premiums must be used for care
what is included in the federal regulatory cost containment
- Value based purchasing (accelerated by ACA)
- Accountable care organizations
- Medicare accès and CHIP reauthorizaiton act (MACRA)
how does the value based purchasing effect federal regulatory cost containment?
establishment of center for medicare and medicaid innovation
how does accountable care organization effect federal regulatory cost containment?
organizations of healthcare provider that are accountable for the quality, cost, and overall care of patients
how does medicare access and chip reauthorization act (MACRA) effect federal regulatory cost containment?
changed how medicare pays providers and created two payment tracks within the quality payment program
State regulation
- more extensive than federal regulation due to licensing of individual providers (MD, RN, etc) and certified the need laws require permission fro the state to add services
- state tort liability
- medical malpractice lawsuits indirectly regulate healthcare
What has led to the biggest changes in health care reimbursement since 1960s with the introduction of medicare and medicaid
Affordable care act
Health insurance
- prepayment for health services
what are the main sources for health insurance
- federal (medicare, medicaid, TRICARE (military) and veterans affairs (VA)
- state (medicaid)
- commercial insurers
- self-insurance
Reimbursement
- how entities get paid for providing a health service
- service is often paid by a third party for health services received