GBA 3 Health Care: Financing, Quality and Reform
This is a required course for the GBA designation. It may be used as an elective for the CEBS curriculum.
GBA 3 was revised in October 2011.
GBA courses and the new Health Care Reform Act
As anticipated, President Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act into law on March 30, 2010. This act along with its companion legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, makes sweeping changes to the nation's health care system.
The purpose of the course is to provide a theoretical basis for understanding the practical issues in health plan design, management and administration. The course is designed to provide a framework for thinking about health care costs and financing in a comprehensive way that engenders well-managed group benefit programs, as well as providing a theoretical basis for understanding the practical issues in health plan design, management and administration. The material includes an overview of the structure, conduct and performance of the U.S. health care industry and alternative health care funding arrangements. The course also describes current and developing issues of relevance to health care financing.
Study Materials
- Learning Guide (second edition), includes Practice Exam on CD (PC only), $155.00
- Handbook of Employee Benefits: Health and Group Benefits, McGraw-Hill, 2011. ISBN 978-0-07-174598-7, $135.00
Note: The same text is used in GBA 1—Group Health Plan Design and GBA 2—Group Benefits Management.
May meet CE Credit Requirements
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Assignment Topics
- Strategic Plan Design Amidst Health Reform
- Health Reform Overview
- Selecting Health Plans
- Purchasing and Managing Quality Health Care and Vendor Management
- Plan Design and Evidence-Based Research
- Multiemployer Plans
- Measuring Intervention Programs
- Cost Containment from the Demand Side
- Funding Benefits (Part I)
- Funding Benefits (Part II)
- Small Company Benefits
- Global Employee Benefits