Challenges and Trends in the US Healthcare Industry

Running head: HEALTH CARE FINANCE
Health Care Finance
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Executive Summary:
This report aims at analyzing the challenges and issues faced by the US as well as global
healthcare industries. It also describes the economic trends in the US healthcare industry. As
the healthcare industry is going through certain reforms, there are various complexities in
accounting and operations of the hospitals. In this report all those challenges and trends are
explained briefly. Lastly the report concludes some key issues in faced by the US healthcare
industry along with recommendations to resolve those challenges.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................4
Financial and Economic Issues in the Healthcare industry:.......................................................4
Invoicing and Payment Processing:.......................................................................................4
Security of Patient’s Information:..........................................................................................5
Healthcare reform and complexities:.....................................................................................5
Need of transparency in Pricing:............................................................................................5
Payment processing and collection as the key issue in healthcare industry:.............................5
Supply and Demand Challenges for Healthcare industry:.........................................................6
Increasing trend of Healthcare costs:.........................................................................................6
Regulatory issues:......................................................................................................................6
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................7
Recommendations:.....................................................................................................................7