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¶ … Quality Analysis
Healthcare Quality and Cost
Despite the fact that there is a comprehensive policy agreement that both cost control and quality enhancement are vital, the relationship between health care costs and quality is one of contention in debates in health care policy. One conceivable aspect is that enhancement in quality necessitates infusion of investments or on the contrary, reductions on cost could diminish quality. On the other hand, improvements in quality could decrease costs by diminishing intricacies or healthcare facility readmissions. As a matter of fact, the relationship between cost and quality possibly lies between these two ends, so that some kinds on health care costs are linked with high quality and others with poor quality. The impact is reliant on the areas the funds are expensed (Hussey et al., 2013).
Select one public agency and one private agency and differentiate their roles and major activities in addressing cost and quality in health care
A public health agency in the United States is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. On the other hand, a private agency in the nation considered in this essay is Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. These two agencies play different roles and undertake dissimilar activities in addressing cost and quality in health care. Center for health care Strategies, Inc. (CHCS) plays an impartial convening role, connecting...
The work undertaken by this agency is to lay emphasis on bringing partners together, and building capacity and agreement to render the highest quality care in the lowest cost possible. The activities undertaken by CHCS consist of cooperative learning and technical assistance, leadership and capacity building, state technical assistance and best practice dissemination (Center for Health care Strategies, 2016).
On the other hand, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are included in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The role of CMS in the greater health care setting has been largely propagated beyond the customary role of undertaking the Medicare, Medicaid and Children's health Insurance programs (CHIP). The Affordable care Act (ACA) is intended to increase accessibility to affordable health care and make the health care system of the United States to be more results oriented and cost effective. In turn, ACA necessitates that CMS work in tandem with various states to institute Health Insurance Marketplaces, propagate Medicaid, and regulate private health insurance plans (CMS, 2013). CMS takes the responsibility to lead the healthcare industry in the provision of high quality care and better health at decreased costs through enhancement to healthcare for all…
References
Centers for Health Care Strategies. (2016). About Us: What We Do. Retrieved from: http://www.chcs.org/about-us/what-we-do/
CMS. (2013). CMS Strategy: The Road Forward 2013 -- 2017. Retrieved from: https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Agency-Information/CMS-Strategy/Downloads/CMS-Strategy.pdf
Hussey, P. S., Wertheimer, S., & Mehrotra, A. (2013). The association between health care quality and cost: a systematic review. Annals of internal medicine, 158(1), 27-34.
Malnyk, M. (2016). Improving healthcare quality, patient outcomes, and costs with evidence-based practice. Reflections on Nursing Practice.
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