GSBS6381
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
Health Plan Design and Payments provides an overview of the practice of health insurance and financing in advanced health systems and healthcare systems in transition. The course is a comprehensive journey through a crucial element of healthcare systems, which pertains to the complexities of health insurance and financing of health economics: health plan design and payments. Students will gain knowledge in the regulatory frameworks and institutional designs of risk sharing, risk adjustment, premium regulation, and payments schemes from both a conceptual and applied perspective.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Singapore NAIHE
- Trimester 2 - 2024
Newcastle City Precinct
- Trimester 2 - 2024
Online
- Trimester 2 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the key conceptual frameworks adopted in health plan design and payment schemes including the options available from regulatory and institutional perspectives.
2. Track and delineate the historical development and evolution of regulation in health plan design and payment.
3. Describe and understand risk sharing, risk adjustment, and incentive mechanisms.
4. Critically compare and assess difference between prospective and retrospective risk adjustment, pay-for-performance and activity based/fixed funding.
5. Critically assess the effects of the regulatory tools on the objectives of the health system and universal health coverage.
6. Identify the advantages and limitations of the in-place regulatory tools in different regulated health systems.
7. Design an evaluation framework for the health plan payment.
Content
The content in this course has five modules:
1. Ongoing issues in regulated competition in health insurance markets.
2. Health plan design and payments: the role of regulatory and institutional frameworks.
3. Premium regulation, risk sharing and risk adjustment for health plan payment.
4. Evaluating the performance of health plan design and payment systems.
5. Health plan design and payment systems worldwide: lessons and insights.
Assessment items
Essay: Problem Set Essay
Essay: Evaluation Essay
Presentation: Research Report and Presentation
Contact hours
Trimester 2 - 2024 - Singapore NAIHE
Online Activity-1
- Self-Directed 6 hour(s) per term
- For Face to face mode - 6 hrs of online content per term provided for self directed learning
Workshop-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Trimester 2 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct
Online Activity-1
- Self-Directed 6 hour(s) per term
- For Face to face mode - 6 hrs of online content per term provided for self directed learning
Workshop-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Trimester 2 - 2024 - Online
Online Activity-1
- Online 30 hour(s) per term
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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