1. Name of the insurance, sponsoring company/organization, its address and contact
    Is it your own?  Your parents?  Is it through your work?  Is it Medicaid?

2. premium per month.

3. Hospital care: Does your neighborhood hospital take your insurance?  Maximum number of days allowed for hospitalization. 

4.Outpatient: Copay?  Find a GP in your neighborhood who takes your insurance (or family doctor, OB/GNY specialist).

5.    Childbirth?
6.    Abortion?

7.    Pharmacy coverage copay

8.    Contraceptive coverage?

9. Mental health care For out patient care, how many times/visits per year allowed, copay, deductible
   
10.Dental coverage?

11.Compare with another insurance (such as your classmates):  Briefly discuss which insurance plan may be better for participants and why. (less than 100 words.)

Write a response to the following post:

Accreditation provides quality and organizational sustainability improvement through external evaluation methodology (Nicklin, Fortune, Van Ostenberg, OConner, & McCauley, 2017). Even though health care accreditation has been in existence for the last century, there has been a recent emphasis to patient safety and quality of health care services which ultimately leads to organizational sustainability (Nicklin et al., 2017). Overall, accreditation does improve organizational sustainability in health care organizations. However, as with any decision, individuals have varying opinions.

Because of the significant costs, some health care professionals do not believe that accreditation has a positive impact on quality of services (Alkhenizan & Shaw, 2012). In addition, other health care leaders thought the demands placed on the staff and time consumption involved with accreditation did not help improve organizational sustainability (Alkhenizan & Shaw, 2012). However, many health care administrators believed accreditation improved the quality of care and could be used as a marketing incentive to gain the trust of the public (Alkhenizan & Shaw, 2012). One reason accreditation improves health care organizations is the onsite visit by external reviewers during the process (Nicklin et al., 2017). This process of accreditation provides evidence-based guidance, self-assessment, and peer opinions that health care leaders and clinical staff have responded positively to (Jha, 2018; Nicklin et al., 2017). The accreditation process should be approached as an investment to the organizational sustainability rather than a major expense (Nicklin et al., 2017).

Within any health care organization, an independent evaluation of the cost-benefit of accreditation must be conducted in order to decide if an accreditation will improve the organizational sustainability (Alkhenizan & Shaw, 2012). Accreditation ensures health care consumers that a health care facility can provide safe, effective, and consistent care based on the latest clinical evidence (Jha, 2018). For these reasons, accreditation is seen to improve organizational sustainability.

References

Alkhenizan, A., & Shaw, C. (2012). The attitude of health care professionals towards accreditation: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Family & Community Medicine, 19(2), 74-80. doi: 10.4103/2230-8229.98281.

Jha, A. K (2018). Accreditation, quality, and making hospital care better. Journal of the American Medical Association, 320(23), 2410-2411. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.18810

Nicklin, W., Fortune, T., Van Ostenberg, P., OConner, E., & McCauley, N. (2017). Leveraging the full value and impact of accreditation. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 29(2), 310-312. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzx010.

Introduction
Synopsis of Mini-Case 8.1: Mental Health Policy (pp. 131-132; Lee textbook): This case addresses the issues of mental health parity with a company. There are those who believe that the companys health plan should provide the same level of coverage for mental health services as it does for other medical services. It is posited that failing to treat mental health problems results in lower productivity and a waste of money in getting treated for other stuff. This case also makes mention that in a RAND study, it was found that mental health services were more price elastic that the demand for ambulatory care services. A board member, and internist, presented another study that appears to contradict the findings from the RAND study.

This mini-case demonstrates the value that elasticity plays when performing quick calculations of the effect of strategic and operational decisions. It also represents a very real scenario in terms of the types of decisions healthcare leaders face and the potential economic implications associated with their decisions. Once of the largest operating expenses a company has is its labor costs, which is not only the salaries, but the employers portion of the payroll taxes and, of course, the benefits (e.g., health insurance, dental insurance, short- and long-term disability, tuition assistance, life insurance, retirement, etc.); however, many employees accept or leave organizations based on the benefit package offered by the employer. This, of courses, can impact the supply of labor necessary to provide the goods and services to the consumers. The case did a nice job pointing out that economic data can be used to assess potential productivity issues.

Sources
Lee, R. H. (2015) Economics for Healthcare Managers Third edition. Chicago, Ill: Health Administration Press.

Directions
The student, functioning as Director of Human Resources, for XYZ Company, and based on information presented to the Board and on his or her own economic analysis, will prepare a written recommendation to the Benefits Committee on whether or not it makes sense to include mental health coverage in the companys health plans with supporting rationale. You should take into consideration how you would respond to the following questions when preparing your recommendation:

Why does it matter whether demand for mental health services is more elastic than demand for other services?
The price elasticity of demand for ambulatory mental health services appears to be about -0.8, and the price elasticity for general ambulatory medical services appears to be about -0.3. How much would spending increase for each type of care if copays were cut from $40 to $25?
What managed care techniques do insurers use to control spending?
Is there evidence that better treatment of mental health problems reduces other spending?
Is there evidence that better treatment of mental health problems improves productivity?
In addition to how you would respond to the above questions, you should also consider utilizing credible, outside sources to support preparation of your formal recommendation to the Benefits Committee.
Answer the above questions within the assignment on the word document please

This analysis should be prepared as a Microsoft Word document, and then attached to the unit discussion thread. There is no minimum or maximum in terms of the word count; however, the response should explicitly address all required components of this discussion assignment. The document should be prepared consistent with the APA writing style (6th edition) and reflect higher level cognitive processing (analysis, synthesis, and or evaluation). 
Use atleast 3 references and use Discussion template provided to complete this assignment.