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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) play a key role in coordinating health care services for Medicare beneficiaries. These organizations have largely become consumer driven, making marketing and health care consumerism central to their success. By offering and marketing evidence-based, patient-centered services and initiatives, ACOs can better connect with consumers. For this Assignment, you examine the services and initiatives for an ACO in your state. To prepare: Select an ACO from the website ACOs in Your State in this week’s Learning Resources. Identify evidence-based services/initiatives that the ACO is using. Note: To determine if services/initiatives are evidence-based, go to http://innovation.cms.gov/ Consider the following: Is the ACO using services/initiatives that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recognize and for which they offer reimbursements? How does the ACO market these services/initiatives to increase health care consumerism? The Assignment In a matrix, analyze evidence-based services/initiatives that the ACO you selected is using for each of the following: Quality of care IT Marketing Financial outcomes Population health programs Vertical versus horizontal integration Operational excellence Include whether the ACO is using approaches that CMS recognizes for reimbursements and how these initiatives/services increase health care consumerism. Synthesize the information you have gathered from your analysis so that each bullet point clearly represents the most significant considerations within each category. While this is a 1-page document that might appear to be simple, each point must be the result of deep and critical thinking RESOURCES — https://innovation.cms.gov/

Our discussion this week will allow you to see the connection between the strategic planning process and the role of the health care financial manager. Before you participate in this week’s discussion, you will need to read “Explanation of Research Required for this Week’s Discussion Board” posted in this week’s course module. When you have completed your research, please prepare your original post using the following structured format: Name of Selected Organization: Location of Selected Organization: Brief Description of Selected Organization: Mission: Vision: Values: Brief Description of Selected Strategic Initiative:(Remember, a strategic initiative is a particular project that achieves a strategic goal.) Your insight about and explanation of how the organization’s Mission, Vision, and Values are supported by the initiative that you selected. Your insight about and explanation of the role of the financial manager in the initiative that you have selected. Be sure to identify things that you feel the financial manager might have considered or would need to consider in the future. Remember, you must research a health care organization. EXPLANATION OF RESEARCH!!! This week you are responsible for conducting in-depth research related to strategic planning in health care organizations. The research that you complete will be used to meet the requirements of your discussion board participation. Here are the guidelines for your research: Select a health care organization that is not discussed in Chapter 24 or in the Required Resources material. Identify the organization’s six major components of strategic planning You should be able to easily identify the organization’s Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals using readily available web-based resources. If you are unable to identify all of these four components, you will need to select a new organization. You may not be able to easily identify the organization’s Objectives and Action Plans as easily. This is because this information is often not publicly available or strictly confidential. You may need to infer these two components, based on the next step in your research process. Identify a current or recent strategic initiative for your selected organization. Remember, a strategic initiative is a particular project that achieves a strategic goal. Research this initiative until you are clear about the description of the initiative, the time-frame of the initiative, the purpose of the initiative, the rationale for the initiative, and the anticipated/achieved outcomes. As you conduct your research, think about the who-what-where-when-why of the initiative so that you are sure that you have gathered all of the necessary information. When you have completed your research, it will be time to present your findings in the discussion board. The requirements of our original discussion board post can be found in the discussion board prompt.

Based on the readings below, write an individual essay arguing your point of view on the tradeoff between pharmaceutical innovation (as patent system and lack of price controls in the U.S. preserve financial incentives to invest in drug development) and consumer cost (higher/unaffordable drug prices). What do you think would be a feasible strategy (or combination strategies) that would balance pharmaceutical innovation incentives and lower consumer costs? – From the drug manufacturers’ perspective and societal perspective: Required readings will include journal articles on the effect of innovation incentives on drug development and journal articles evaluating the high economic (opportunity) cost of drug development: • Goldman, D. P., Lakdawalla, D. N., Malkin, J. D., Romley, J., & Philipson, T. (2011). The benefits from giving makers of conventional ‘small molecule’ drugs longer exclusivity over clinical trial data. Health Affairs, 30(1), 84-90. • DiMasi, J. A., Hansen, R. W., & Grabowski, H. G. (2003). The price of innovation: new estimates of drug development costs. Journal of Health Economics, 22(2), 151-185. • Danzon, P. M., Wang, Y. R., & Wang, L. (2005). The impact of price regulation on the launch delay of new drugs—evidence from twenty‐five major markets in the 1990s. Health Economics, 14(3), 269-292. – From the patient perspective and societal perspective: Required readings will include opinion articles from the NY Times on patients skipping or rationing essential medications due to their high costs, frequent changes in drugs covered due to negotiations between drug manufacturers and PBMs, etc: • https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006488930/insulin-price-costs.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article (Links to an external site.) • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/opinion/drug-prices-congress.html (Links to an external site.) • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/opinion/drug-pricing-trump.html (Links to an external site.) • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/opinion/cost-insurance-diabetes-insulin.html (Links to an external site.) Rubric: You will have to write an opening statement paragraph illustrating your point of view and argument with 3 reasons illustrated using evidence from the readings in one paragraph each.