NSC 4312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality, Facility Location Problem, Health Maintenance Organization
Document Summary
Apart of the dhhs that provides research about health quality. Have many resources for patients, healthcare professional and policy makers. Dedicated to compiling existing research and standards to produce physician s papers that is the go to information: structure of health care systems, types of health care systems. It is funded by taxes: government provided health care, when people need healthcare they simply just access it, tend to be a bit clogged or slower, example the va. Hmo: most common, was developed due to the elevated cost for insurances companies, guarantees services/referral but you must pay less by getting services from those in their network. Ppo: tells physicians they will take care do a certain amount of people with this amount of resources, the counseling center, providers and facilities and financing- knowing how those below affects health care. Dhhs workforce projections: hrsa, they go out and do estimates about what is needed and workforce projections.
