Funding Health Care Services

Funding Health Care Services

Introduction

The today's modern era has given challenges to many organizations in the different types of industries. The management of the organization has become more critical in today's era than it was before. The increase in competition around the world has created challenges to the organizations. The health care sector is one of them that are affected by the challenges. The increase in population and the expectations of the people has given the management of the health care organizations a critical challenge. The economic conditions are also the factors that are contributing to the increase in difficulties that the management of the health care organizations faces.

It is of great challenge for the health care organizations to manage their expenses with that of the maintenance of the hospital units and the elements that are used as the hospitals' resources. For the success of the health care organization, the management of the organization is required to manage the expenses of the services that it provides to the patients. The effective management of the service resources allows the health care organization to provide the adequate, quality and in time services to the patients. The patients concern the quality for services when they choose a particular hospital.

The funding of services in health care organization is the basic factor that affects the quality of services that are provided to the patients. Therefore the health care organization is required to analyze the capability of the funding resources in order to manage the expenses and the management of the services being provided. The following section aims at discussing the issues that are usually faced by the health care organization and how the financing and funding of the health care organization's services can be made improved.

Discussion

In the health care organization, the expenses are on account of many factors that are directly related to patients' health care expenses. The services in the hospitals are associated with the funding procedures and the funding resources. It is always challenging for the health care organizations to manage the adequate funding in order to allocate better expending budgets that has direct impact upon the services quality of the services.

Approaches to health care funding in United States

There are various approaches to the health care funding that are being utilized in the United States. According to Bill R., Jen N., Jamie S. and Keir D. (1999), the private health care system in United States depends upon the individuals' ability to pay off the expenses that are occurred in providing the services to it. The authors have also mentioned that patients' expenses are mostly covered by the insurance companies that the employers of the individuals buy for their employees. There is also the great difference between the private and the public health care organizations. The provision of funding for the further provision of services is based upon the institutions and the resources of the organization. The private health care organizations mainly face the issues of ...