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US Healthcare System - Health Insurance Products
Learn elements of health insurance products, why they matter: benefit categories, provider networks, cost sharing
Created byEddie Jay
Last updated 7/2024
English
What you'll learn
- This series of courses give you a wholistic & concise view of the key elements of the US health system
- Become familiar with the related terminologies and understand why these elements are important
- Learn how and why US health insurance products are designed the way they are
- Learn about the major payor types
- Learn about the benefits that are covered
- Learn about the different provider network types
- Learn how different profiles of consumers/patients view and choose health insurance
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Course content
4 sections • 14 lectures • 50m total length
Requirements
- none
Description
BACKGROUND
The US healthcare system spends over $4trillion per year. It is enormous and has many opportunities.
If you want to capture these opportunities, you have to be familiar with the key elements and understand why they are important.
ABOUT THIS SERIES
The US Health System is a series of courses that introduce the key elements of the US health system.
This is the first in the series, on Health Insurance Products:
Types of health insurance products
The key elements
Who pays: payor types
What’s covered: benefit categories
How to access care: provider networks
Benefit/Payment levels: cost sharing
Using different points of view
Through perspectives of different personas, see how these different elements are important in health insurance
The lectures are short, concise, practical. You will see only what you really need to know.
This course will save you hours of reading boring articles, government regulations only to have more questions than answers.
ABOUT ME
I've over 20 years of experience in the health care industry. I'm a fully qualified health actuary and have a MSc in Health Policy from the London School of Economics. My goal is to help you excel in the workplace.
So CLICK ON, and let me share with you what I wish someone had showed me 20 years ago!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who is interested in the US health system, whether you're looking to get into or already are working in it.
- For those new to the US health system, the complexity of the US health system can be overwhelming. Skip reading boring text books or government reports, this course teaches you the key elements in a concise and practical way so you can get up to speed quickly.
- Even if you already have existing knowledge, the short course provides a wholistic overview to fill gaps in your knowledge, or just serve as a quick refresher.