Course Overview
Our health system is constantly changing and evolving. AHIP’s Health Insurance Advanced Studies, Part A online self-study course is designed to keep your industry knowledge both up-to-date and ahead of the curve. To help you do your job even better, it delivers relevant details and timely insights from a wide range of arenas within this fast-growing field.
Learning Objectives
On completion of this course will be able to:-
- Explore the impact of court decisions on healthcare reform, including the Supreme Court
- Assess the different ways Americans obtain their health insurance coverage
- Discover how and why some health insurance providers leverage alternate organizational structures
- Gain a deeper understanding of what health insurance exchanges are and how they operate in a post-reform environment
- Explore the concepts behind accountable care organizations (ACOs) and their role in bending the cost curve
- Analyze how Medicare Part D enables significant portions of the senior population to obtain prescription drug coverage
- See how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has impacted Medicare Part D’s out-of-pocket costs
- Acquire new planning tools for fraud detection and deterrence
- Take a closer look at the interplay of the ACA and recent court decisions that had an impact on Medicaid expansion