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\nFactors Affecting Today\u2019s Healthcare Environment\n<\/p>\n

\nAbstract\n<\/p>\n

\nThe current healthcare industry is impacted by many factors including, the medical culture, market pressures, and the insurance industry.\u00a0 The present article will review how each of these factors impact healthcare.\u00a0 Some solutions are suggested in this article and how they might impact the healthcare system.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\nKeywords<\/em>: cost reduction, prevention, income, single-payor system\n<\/p>\n

\nIn today\u2019s healthcare environment, there are many factors that effect it.\u00a0 Some of these factors include the medical culture, market pressures, and the insurance industry.\u00a0 These factors if adjusted could have major impacts on healthcare.\u00a0 One such way is if medical culture focused on levels of prevention rather than high-technology solutions.\u00a0\u00a0 Another way how healthcare is impacted, is how healthcare institutions need to be solvent to survive in the current market structure.\u00a0 The final way in which these factors affect healthcare in how insurance impacts the healthcare industry by taking a large portion of money from healthcare.\n<\/p>\n

\nMany was to reduce cost and improve the health outcomes of consumers is to affect disease before it progresses to a more serious level.\u00a0 This progression has been mapped out by epidemiologists and health-services planners to assist with managing various healthcare conditions.\u00a0 (Young & Kroth, 2018, p4) One way in which change can be made is to focus care on prevention and management of various healthcare conditions.\u00a0 (Bae & Jamoulle, 2016, p343) Many of the prevention and management plans focus on include reduction of risk factors such as activity levels, diets, and other factors. (Giles-Corti, B., Sallis, J., Sugiyama, T., Frank, L., Lowe, M., & Owen, N., 2015, p232) These plans involve not only the healthcare communities but assistance by consumers for these interventions to have an impact on the healthcare of communities.\u00a0 Consumers must have invested interest in changing behaviors for prevention and management to be successful.\u00a0 It has been shown that these basic interventions of activity and diet can delay the onset of disease.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\nAnother factor that influences today\u2019s healthcare environment is market pressures.\u00a0 The healthcare system depends on many avenues of income.\u00a0 These avenues of income include government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, private insurance, and out-of-pocket payments.\u00a0 Some of these avenues of income have more impact on various parts of the healthcare system.\u00a0 One such impact is on hospitals.\u00a0 Rural hospitals, which are smaller than urban hospitals, have less beds and depend on the income from Medicare and Medicaid.\u00a0 Another way in which income impacts the healthcare system is they type of institution, not-for-profit versus for profit.\u00a0 Both areas impact the institutions solvency.\u00a0 Hospitals that can fluctuate with the flow and demand of healthcare needs, and income levels, tend to do better than those institutions that are not able to flow in fluctuations of demand and supply and income level.\u00a0 This is often to do with the expectations of those institutions to reduce their level of care for indigent individuals or face closure.\u00a0 (Younis, M., 2003, p38) One way in which those institutions, which are impacted greatly by the fluctuations in income, are to become part of a larger network in more urban areas which helps off-set the fluctuations in income and allow access to healthcare.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\nInsurance impacts the healthcare industry by taking a large portion of the healthcare dollar.\u00a0 One of the ways that is posited to affect this is to change the payor system.\u00a0 One of the ways that has been suggested to do this is to change to a single-payor system.\u00a0 This proposal suggests that it would decrease the amount of administrative costs currently incurred by private insurance companies.\u00a0 They propose that this would reduce cost by \u201creducing billing and paperwork costs for physicians, hospitals, and other providers.\u201d\u00a0 (Woolhandler, S. & Himmelstein, D., 2017, P 587) Although initially this process would increase some costs, overall the cost would be lower than current levels and allow for more consumers to partake of healthcare benefits.\u00a0 These systems have been proven to work in other countries.\u00a0 If we are to transition to a single-payor system, it would involve some increased costs in transition of billing systems, increase in training, and decrease in overhead costs.\u00a0 However, in the long-run, this transition would not only decrease overall costs, but increase overall consumption of services which would lead to better health for all individuals within the society.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\nMany factors impact the healthcare environment today.\u00a0 These include the medical culture, market pressures, and the insurance industry.\u00a0 Dependent on how these factors affect the industry, changes could negatively or positively impact the health industry.\u00a0 Changes can be made within healthcare if we understand that the transition process may be a challenging process.\u00a0 However, the outcomes will be a benefit to all consumers as noted by these transitions in other countries.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

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