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Assignment

Select a health care issue or situation. Some examples include the following:

• The aging population
• Changing technology
• Health care insurance issues - underinsured, uninsured, and so on
• Health care spending
• Health care reform
• Pharmaceuticals

Complete the Health Care Economic Issues Presentation.

Prepare a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with detailed speaker notes that includes the following information:

An analysis of the effectiveness of current procedures that are in place for the issue or situation you have selected. You should:

• Analyze how the evolution of health care has affected the financial decision-making process in your selected issue or situation
• Analyze how the evolution of health care has affected the financial decision-making process in general
• Analyze how the financial decision-making process has affected your chosen issue or situation
• Analyze the effect the policy and regulatory environment has had on the financial decision-making process of your chosen issue or situation
• Analyze the effect the policy and regulatory environment has had on the financial decision-making process in the health care industry in general

In your presentation, base your analysis on evolutional perspectives on health care economics and economic theories while completing the following:

• Examine who is involved in financial decision-making.
• Analyze what are the steps in the financial decision-making process.
• Examine what some of the specific outcomes that resulted from changes to the financial decision-making process.
• Analyze what some of the specific outcomes that resulted from changes in the regulatory environment.
• Analyze how your issue or situation has been affected by the changes.

In your presentation, recommend improvement strategies based on economic theories on the financial-decision making process and economic concepts. Include the following:

• Differentiate key players involved in the issue or situation.
• Differentiate microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives and utilization.
• Examine tools that support best practices.
• Distinguish how benchmarking has been and can be used in financial-decision making processes and economic concepts.
• Differentiate economic incentives and competition.
• Distinguish global implications in financial decision-making processes and economic concepts.

Cite a minimum of four sources.