Identify current national healthcare trends and policy initiatives that may affect the healthcare organization evident in the attached “Service Line Development Case Study.” TASK OVERVIEW SUBMISSIONS EVALUATION REPORT 1. Discuss how the identified trends impact the delivery of healthcare in the case study. 2. Discuss possible legislation that may result from these trends. B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or

 KMM1 Task 3
Trends
Along with technology, the medical industry continues to change at an ever-increasing
pace. Technological advancements allow the medical industry to continue to offer improved
products and services to better patient’s lives around the world. Along with these advancements,
there are two healthcare trends/policies that need to be monitored closely.
I. Government payers like Medicaid and Medicare continue to reduce reimbursement
amounts for healthcare provider services. While policymaker's motives might be pure
trying to help as many people as possible access quality healthcare, in the end, this could
end up hurting more people than it helps. This is a frightening trend because if providers
cannot cover their costs and make a comfortable living accepting Medicaid and Medicare
patients, they will stop accepting these payors altogether. If this happens, 33.3% of all
insured patients in the United States will not have access to quality healthcare as 17.9%,
and 15.4% of the country have Medicaid or Medicare (Bureau, 2019).
II. These same government payors are not only reducing their reimbursement amounts for
health care providers; they are also reducing reimbursement to hospitals. If such
policies/legislation continues, our hospitals will not make enough profit to stay solvent.
Many massive hospital systems are purchasing smaller/midsized hospitals as the smaller
hospitals like Trinity Medical Center (TMC) cannot make a profit with decreasing
reimbursement rates (The great, 2014)