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HA-101

US Healthcare System Overview

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Explain how the US healthcare system is built, paid for and regulated, and follow a patient's dollar from insurer to provider.

Start hereNo background needed. Use your own insurance card and one medical bill as the case study.

8 hours total5 Chapters20 Lessons1 Exams3 CreditsFREE
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Take a position on US Healthcare System Overview. The AI counselor argues the other side, asks you questions back, and cites a source for every fact it states. Sources listed under a reply are the pages it actually found; if none are listed, it is arguing from reasoning only. It is an AI and it can be wrong: check the sources.

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    Course Syllabus

    8h total

    Practice

    1. Map your local hospital, a clinic and a pharmacy onto the provider types.
    2. Identify who pays for your own care and what type of payer they are.
    3. Find one example each of fee-for-service and value-based delivery near you.

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    Draw the flow of money for one doctor's visit: patient, payer, provider.

    Topics Covered

    healthcaresysteminsurance

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