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Chapter 9
Health Care Systems and Policy
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Learning Objectives
Describe factors affecting the cost and delivery of
health care.
Explain why health promotion is a major component of the rhetoric about health care reform at the national level.
Differentiate between traditional systems of health care and managed forms of health care.
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Learning Objectives
Describe eligibility requirements for and services provided to
recipients of Medicare and Medicaid.
Identify consumer trends affecting health care.
State the value of using medical nutrition therapy protocols to document client outcomes in various health care settings.
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Introduction
In 2000, Americans spent more than $1.2 trillion for
health care which represents over 13% of the gross national product.
This amount exceeds the average amount spent by any other industrialized country.
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Introduction
Public policy is attempting to direct our medical system
toward health promotion although Medicaid and Medicare and other major third-party payers offer limited reimbursement for preventive procedures.
Many studies show that early detection and intervention, immunization, and behavior change could significantly reduce many of the leading causes of death and disability.
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An Overview of the Health Care Industry
Two general categories
of health insurance in the United States:
Private
Traditional fee-for-service
Group contract
Public
Medicare
Medicaid
State Children’s Health Insurance Program
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Private Insurance
Approximately 70.2% of Americans have private insurance.
Private insurance
can be in the form of traditional fee-for-service insurance or group contract insurance.
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Private Insurance
Traditional Fee-for-Service Plans
Include a billing system in which
the provider charges a fee for each service rendered.
Critics of this plan claim that they encourage physicians to provide more services than necessary.
Proponents prefer the greater flexibility and unrestricted access to physicians, tests, hospitals, and treatments.
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Private Insurance
Group Contract Insurance
Managed-care systems, represented by health maintenance
organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs), are prepaid group practice plans that offer health care services through groups of medical practitioners.
The goal of managed care is improved quality of care with decreased cost.
91% of employees with health insurance were enrolled in managed-care plans in 1999.
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Private Insurance – Group Contract Insurance
HMOs provide comprehensive services
across the continuum of care and they make money by keeping people healthy.
Prepaid group health plans emphasize health promotion since they provide health care services at a preset cost.
By keeping people healthy, HMOs avoid lengthy hospitalizations and costly services.
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Private Insurance – Group Contract Insurance
General HMO models:
Staff model
Group
model
Network model
Independent practice association (IPA)
Point-of-service (POS) plan
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Private Insurance – Group Contract Insurance
In some HMOs, provider
receives a capitation payment
Capitation payment – A predetermined fee paid per enrollee per month to the provider
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Public Insurance
Medicare and Medicaid - administered by the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
State Children’s Health Insurance Program
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The Medicare Program
Medicare is the largest health care insurer
in the U.S.
It is designed to assist:
People 65 and older
People of any age with end-stage renal disease
People eligible for Social Security disability payment programs for more than 2 years
Qualified railroad retirement beneficiaries and merchant seamen
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The Medicare Program
Medicare consists of two separate parts:
Hospital
insurance (Part A)
Medical insurance (Part B)
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The Medicare Program
Medicare Part A
Provides hospital insurance benefits
that include up to 90 days of inpatient care annually with a 20 percent coinsurance fee.
Hospital inpatient charges are reimbursed according to prospective payment system known as diagnosis related groups (DRGs).
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The Medicare Program
Medicare Part B
An optional insurance program
financed through premiums paid by enrollees and contributions from federal funds.
Enrolled Medicare Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) providers are able to bill Medicare for MNT services provided to beneficiaries with type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes, nondialysis kidney disease, and post-kidney transplants.
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The Medicare Program
Coverage Gaps
Medicare Modernization Act
Medicare Advantage Plan
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The Medicaid Program
Medicaid is a joint state and federal
program that provides assistance with medical care for:
Eligible, low-income persons
Certain low-income pregnant women and children
The aged, blind, and people with disabilities
Members of families with dependent children in which one parent is absent, incapacitated, or unemployed
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The Medicaid Program
The individual states define eligibility, benefits, and
payment schedules.
Typically, one must meet three criteria, including income, categorical, and resource.
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The Medicaid Program
Medicaid covers a variety of services and
settings, including inpatient and outpatient hospital services, physicians’ services, skilled nursing home and home health services, and laboratory and x-ray tests.
To date, 36 state Medicaid programs cover certain forms of nutrition services provided by dietitians.
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The State Children’s Health Insurance Program
The State Children’s Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP) is the largest single expansion of health insurance coverage for children in more than 30 years.
States have flexibility in targeting eligible uninsured children.
Many of the children served come from working families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private health insurance.
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SCHIP Enrollment,
1999-2003
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The Uninsured
The uninsured include the working poor and those
who work for small businesses.
The employed uninsured number 15 million.
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The Uninsured
The non-working uninsured number 9 million and include:
The homeless
Some deinstitutionalized mentally ill patients
Low-income people who do not qualify for Medicaid
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% of U.S. Persons without Health Care Coverage, 2003
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Demographic Trends and Health Care
By the year 2030, the
baby boom will become a senior boom with 21 percent of the population over 65 years of age.
Racial and geographical factors in the population are also important to the shape of the future.
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The Need for Health Care Reform
Health care reform refers
to the efforts undertaken to ensure that everyone in the U.S. has access to quality health care at an affordable price.
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The Need for Health Care Reform
Some of the challenges
of health care reform include:
Making health care accessible to everyone.
Containing costs.
Providing nursing home care to those who need it.
Ensuring that Medicare and Medicaid can serve all who are eligible.
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The Need for Health Care Reform
Cost, access, and quality
are interrelated and manipulating one has an astounding impact on the others.
Health care policy makers are studying alternative models of delivery and financing in hopes of applying other nations’ successes to the U.S.
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The High Cost of Health Care
Health care inflation is
well established and the level of health care activity is expected to grow as a result of various factors including:
An aging population
Increased demand
Continuing advances in medicine
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National Health Expenditures (Billions of Dollars)
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The High Cost of Health Care
Major contributors to health
care expenditures in the U.S. are:
The administrative cost of the insurance process itself
Professional liability costs
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The Nation’s Health Dollar, 2002
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The High Cost of Health Care
Efforts at Cost Containment
Efforts
to curb soaring health care costs cover a broad spectrum...
from slowing hospital construction
to reducing length of hospital stays, and
increasing copayments and deductibles for insured employees and Medicare recipients.
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The High Cost of Health Care - Cost Containment
One
example of cost containment is the prospective payment system (PPS) that the federal government implemented.
The purpose of the PPS was to change the behavior of health care providers by changing incentives under which care is provided and reimbursed.
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The High Cost of Health Care - Cost Containment
PPS
(continued)
Prospective payment means knowing the amount of payment in advance.
PPS uses diagnosis related groups (DRGs) as a basis for reimbursement.
Patients are classified according to the principal diagnosis, secondary diagnosis, sex, age, and surgical procedures.
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The High Cost of Health Care - Cost Containment
PPS
(continued)
There are 23 categories and a total of 490 DRGs.
One consequence of PPS has been an increased focus on outpatient services.
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The High Cost of Health Care
Equity and Access as
Issues in Health Care
Public opinion polls in the U.S. reveal that most people believe all citizens are entitled to access to health care...
but debate continues about the acceptable level of health care and what benefits should be included.
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The High Cost of Health Care – Equity and
Access
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
A recent report released by DHHS shows significant improvements in the health of racial and ethnic minorities but also indicates that important disparities in health persist.
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Health Care Reform in the United States
Almost all industrialized
countries except the U.S. have national health care programs.
In these systems, coverage is generally universal and uniform and costs are paid entirely from tax revenues or by some combination of individual and employer premiums and government subsidization.
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Health Care Reform in the United States
Health care reform
in the U.S. raises a formidable list of issues including:
Overall cost containment
Universal access
Emphasis on prevention
Reduction in administrative superstructure and costs
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Health Care Reform in the United States
While the government
remains undecided on what kind of health care system is needed or how to pay for it, health care reform is evolving at an accelerating rate without legislation.
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Nutrition as a Component of Health Care Reform
Many believe
that nutrition services are the cornerstone of cost-effective prevention and are essential to halting the spiraling cost of health care.
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Nutrition as a Component of Health Care Reform
The American
Dietetic Association (ADA) has urged that nutrition services be included in any health care reform legislation.
Registered dietitians also need to be recognized as the nutrition experts of the health care team.
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Nutrition as a Component of Health Care Reform
Cost-Effectiveness of
Nutrition Services
ADA encourages all of its practitioners to document the cost-effectiveness of nutrition services.
Cost-effectiveness studies compare the costs of providing health care against a desirable change in patient health outcomes.
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Nutrition as a Component of Health Care Reform
Cost-Effectiveness (continued)
Effective
nutrition therapy can produce economic benefits as a result of altered food habits and risk factors.
Practice guidelines or protocols that clearly specify appropriate care and acceptable limits of care for each disease state or condition are important to enhance the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the health care system.
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Nutrition as a Component of Health Care Reform
Care delivered
according to a protocol has been linked with positive outcomes for the client.
Examples of outcomes include:
Measure of control (serum lipid profiles)
Quality of life
Dietary intake
Patient satisfaction
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Measurable Outcomes of Nutrition Intervention
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Nutrition as a Component of Health Care Reform
Developing standardized
protocols of care for nutrition intervention is considered a must for achieving payment for nutrition services and expanding current levels of third-party reimbursement.
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Medical Nutrition Therapy and Medicare Reform
The ADA believes that
reimbursement for nutrition services through Medicare and Medicaid is inadequate.
ADA supports the inclusion of medical nutrition therapy as a covered benefit in all types of health care delivery.
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Medical Nutrition Therapy Providing Return on Investment
Oxford Health Plan
Saved $10 for every $1 spent on nutrition counseling for at-risk elderly patients
The Lewin Group
8.6% reduction in hospital utilization for patients with CVD
16.9% reduction in physician visits for patients with CVD
9.5% reduction in hospital utilization for diabetes patients
23.5% reduction in physician visits for diabetes patients
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Medical Nutrition Therapy Providing Return on Investment
University of California
Irvine
Lipid drug eligibility was obviated in 34 of 67 subjects
Estimated annual cost savings from the avoidance of lipid medication was $60,652
Pfizer Corporation
Projected $728,772 annual savings from reduced cardiac claims
U.S. Department of Defense
Saved $3.1 million the first year for CVD patients
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Evaluating Nutrition Risk in Older Adults
NSI DETERMINE Checklist -
a nutrition screening tool to help identify warning signs of potential nutrition problems.
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Evaluating Nutrition Risk in Older Adults
“Determine Your Nutritional Health”
Checklist
I have an illness or condition that made me change the kind or amount of food I eat.
I eat fewer than two meals each day.
I eat few fruits or vegetables or milk products.
I have three or more alcoholic drinks almost every day.
I have tooth or mouth problems that make it hard for me to eat.
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Evaluating Nutrition Risk in Older Adults
“Determine Your Nutritional Health”
Checklist (continued)
I don’t always have enough money to buy the food I need.
I eat alone most of the time.
I take three or more different prescribed or over-the-counter medicines a day.
Without wanting to do so, I have lost or gained 10 pounds in the last 6 months.
I am not always physically able to shop, cook, and/or feed myself.
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Evaluating Nutrition Risk in Older Adults
Campaign Long-Term Nutrition Risk
Reduction
Demonstrates how nutrition screening and case management can help lower nutrition risk among frail, homebound older adults.
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Evaluating Nutrition Risk in Older Adults
Goals and Objectives
Improve the
nutritional status of frail, homebound older adults receiving home services under the Medicaid Waiver Program by:
Nutritionally screening clients
Providing home-based medical nutrition therapy where indicated
Using a coordinated case management approach to determine need for further services
Evaluating the effectiveness of home-based medical nutrition therapy
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Evaluating Nutrition Risk in Older Adults
Methodology
Older adults contacted to
complete "Nutrition Screening Checklist"
Clients identified as “at risk” referred for for an initial home visit and in-depth nutritional assessment
MNT care plan devised and carried out
In-depth nutritional assessment repeated at discharge
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Evaluating Nutrition Risk in Older Adults
Results
Semiannual samplings of 20%
of all discharged patients
89% of clients surveyed lowered their nutrition risk scores after receiving home-based medical nutrition therapy.
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On the Horizon: Changes in Health Care and Its
Delivery
The future offers much that is positive for the profession of dietetics.
Yet to be achieved are the effective provision and allocation of resources, such as nutrition services as part of preventive care.
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On the Horizon: Changes in Health Care and Its
Delivery
A coordinated strategy for health care, political will, and active collaboration of both health care professionals and consumers of health care services will be required to achieve this goal.
Health care reform for the U.S. is certain, but the exact nature of the reform will continue to evolve.
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Ethics and the Nutrition Professional
What Is Ethics?
A philosophical discipline
that attempts to determine what is morally good and bad, right and wrong
Codes of Ethics
The ADA published its first code of ethics in 1942
Most recent code became effective in 1999
ADA code applies to all ADA members and credentialed practitioners
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Ethics and the Nutrition Professional
Guiding Principles
Autonomy - respecting the
individual’s rights of self-determination, independence, and privacy
Beneficence - protecting clients from harm and maximizing possible benefits
Non-maleficence - the obligation not to inflict harm intentionally
Justice - striving for fairness in one’s actions and equality in the allocation of resources
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Ethics and the Nutrition Professional
Health Promotion and Ethics
Ethical Decision
Making