Prepare a 2-3 page You are the newly appointed director of the Center for Medica
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Prepare a 2-3 page
You are the newly appointed director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). With health care costs continuing to soar, the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) rollout and Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement Plan in place, and the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in progress, you are confronted with potential increases in payments for Medicare and Medicaid programs. Meanwhile, the Director for the Administration on Aging continues to send you data about the portending rise in the number of older people and those with disabilities and the needs of such persons for comprehensive care, not just acute care.
• Detail the impact the changing consumer demographics will have on long-term care.
• Based on the statistics from the Director of Administration on Aging, detail how the CMS can expect facilities to focus on quality and outcomes relating to long-term care. How will this focus impact providers operationally?
• Detail how these changes will impact the delivery of long-term care.
• Detail what policies and regulatory measures you would take as the Director of CMS.
• Detail what additional long-term strategies you would pursue to make national resources meet the nation’s need for chronic care.
Explanation / Answer
1.
With the rise in the older people and the ones with the disabilities, the long term care will be required more in intensity than the present requirement. Moreover the care has to be more holistic in nature.
2.
There should be more preventive care in case of older ones and use of facilitatory equipment for the ones with disabilities.
3.
These changes will impact the delivery of long term care in a way of spending not on ‘last minute’ exigencies. Also this helps in prolonging the age of the older ones and keeping them in a more healthy state.
4.
As the Director of CMS, the regulatory policies like ensuring intake of the boosters etc. by the older ones and keeping up with the trends to make sure the disabled get the most comprehensive care in tandem with the latest technology.
5.
The long term strategies that could be pursued to make sure that the nation’s resources are utilized fully for the nation’s requirements-