UPDATED JANUARY 2015

Learning Team Assignment: Government Regulatory Agencies and Impact on Consumer Choices Presentation

NOTE: This presentation is your chance to demonstrate what you have learned during this class. There are NO DQ responses nor participation posts required this week, thus all your time and energy should be dedicated towards this assignment. Speaker notes should detail everything you would say if you were presenting to an audience.

Resource: Government Regulatory Agencies and Impact on Consumer Choices Presentation grading criteria located on the student website.

Health care consumers and providers have access to a variety of health care products and services, which may be a benefit and a challenge. Governmental oversight of health care products and services exists and may affect the type and quality of products and services to which health care consumers have access. Health care products and services are regulated by a variety of governmental agencies, such as the following:

o The Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

o The FDA Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications (DDMAC)

o The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

o Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Identify one governmental agency and one health care product category or service that is regulated or overseen by this agency.

Explore the agencies in the government links in the Health Care Web Links section on the student website.

Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (not including title and reference pages) thatincludes the following:

o Identify the identity and role of the governmental agency selected.

o Identify the overall set of health care products or services that the agency is responsible for overseeing or regulating.

o Identify the specific health care product or service category on which your presentation focuses.

o Identify three advantages of regulatory oversight for the selected health care product or service category to the consumer.

o Identify three advantages of regulatory oversight for the selected health care product or service category to the health care provider.

o Identify one way in which the role of the agency and the product or service it regulates or oversees affects consumer choice in the health care marketplace.

o Identify health care costs for consumers.

o Identify factors that contribute to the consumers choice of providers.

o Include a conclusion.

o Include a minimum of five references that must be cited in the final slide.

Include comprehensive and detailedspeaker notes for all content pages of the presentation.