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MHC 6305 Financial Management of Healthcare Organization.

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What are the key components that healthcare organizations have in regards to investment planning, capital planning and operational planning for developing and implementing the Healthcare Organizational budget.

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note: Working managers may complete this exercise based on the practices of their own organizations. Students may complete this exercise based on the practices of a current or previous employer. Instructions 1. Select and describe the boundaries of the system of interest; the term âorganizationâ will be used to refer to this selected system. You may select a team, a department, a small organization (e.g., an office practice), or an entire organization. 2. To familiarize yourself with the criteria, review the section called âCategory and Item Descriptionsâ in the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence available from: www.nist.gov/baldrige/ publications/hc_criteria.cfm 3. The Organizational Assessment Worksheet provides a general description of the criteria category followed by selected questions from the respective 2011â2012 Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence category. 4. Based on the system selected in question 1, write a brief reply to the selected questions. Briefly describe your organization, including its services; size; geographic community; key patient or customer groups; and current facilities, equipment, and technology, as well as the number of patients or clients it serves. Briefly describe your organizationâs key challenges and your organizationâs current performance improvement system. How do senior leaders deploy your organizationâs vision and values through your leadership system, to the workforce, to key suppliers and partners, and to patients and stakeholders as appropriate? How do senior leaders encourage frank two-way communication throughout the organization? How does your organization conduct strategic planning? Summarize your organizationâs action plans, how they are deployed, and key action plan performance measures or indicators. How do you identify patient, stakeholder, and market requirements for service offerings? How do you build and manage relationships with patients and stakeholders to meet their requirements and exceed their expectations at each stage of their relationship with you? What are your key organizational performance measures? How do you use these data and information to support organizational decision making and innovation? How do you assess your workforce capability and capacity needs, including skills, competencies, and staffing levels? How do you address workplace environmental factors to ensure and improve workplace health, safety, and security? How do you design and innovate your work processes to meet all the key requirements? How do you improve your work processes to improve healthcare outcomes, to achieve better performance, to reduce variability, and to improve healthcare services? Provide data for one key measure or indicator of healthcare outcomes that is important to your patients and stakeholders. Provide data for one key measure or indicator of patient or stakeholder satisfaction. Provide data for one key measure or indicator of financial performance. Provide data for one key measure or indicator related to operational performance. Provide data for one key measure related to achieving legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements. Prioritizing Improvement Opportunities 1. Review the responses to the organizational assessment questions. 2. Note any questions for which you could not provide a response (i.e., the organization does not have a defined process or approach to address the topic of the question). 3. Review the organizational performance results data. 4. Select one or more measures that demonstrate less than desirable results. 5. Select one item from question 2 or 4 as the performance gap for the performance improvement exercise .

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Course Title: HSM 543 Health Service Finance Class

Week 6: You Decide Assignment

Professorâs Name:

Scenario

you sat in the CFO chair, studied a real world hospital AccountsReceivable (AR) problem with your team, and came up with a ProcessImprovement Plan to reduce Days in Accounts Receivable and improvecash flow to you hospital. Well the great news is that your planworked! This morning your Days in AR stand at 67. Not perfect....but much better, and you have five payrolls of cash on hand rightnow. Things are looking up for Community Memorial! And then justbefore lunch you get a call from the Bill Jacobs, Human ResourceDirector at Commercial Intertech (CI), the largest employer in thecommunity. Bill says, "I wanted you to hear it from me first. Wesigned a contract yesterday with MegaPlan Health. They will be themanaged care organization for all 4,500 of our employees and theirfamilies. About 9,000 patients total. I'm sure that you will wantto get a contract with MegaPlan as soon as possible. I noticed thatyour hospital is not on their Preferred Provider Network (PPN), andI am pretty sure that you will want to be, so that our employeescan continue using the facility." By the time you thank Bill forthe heads up, the acid is already churning in your stomach. In thehospital world, MegaPlan is known for cut-throat tactics,negotiating steep discounts with hospitals, and fighting everyclaim the hospital makes. Commercial Intertech has every right tocontract with any health insurance provider they like, but now youhave a problem. If you cannot get a decent contract with MegaPlanand become part of their Preferred Provider Network (PPN), manylocal patients may bypass your hospital and go the next closest PPNfacility. Delivered to your office this afternoon, by nocoincidence, is a contract proposal from MegaPlan. It calls for thehospital to provide a 35% discount from charges to MegaPlan and allof its members. And it includes service pre-authorizationrequirements which will make life very difficult for your businessoffice. You know from experience that the hospital loses moneywhenever the discount from charges exceeds 20%.

Your Role

You are the hospital CFO, trying to solve the managed careproblem.

Key Players

Dr. John Evans, Chief of Staff

Katrina Eaton, CEO

Linda Freed, Business Office Manager

Nancy Stritmatter, CNO

Assignment

Given the scenario, your role and the information provided bythe key players involved, it is time for you to make adecision.

What will you do? Whose advice makes the most sense to you inthis situation, and how will you proceed?

Understanding

Here you are to demonstrate a strong grasp of the problem athand. Also, demonstrate an understanding of how the course conceptsapply to the problem.

Provide at least 3 paragraphs that contain at least 5sentences.

Analysis

Here, you are to apply original thought to solving the businessproblem. Also, apply concepts from the course material correctlytoward solving the business problem.

Provide at least 3 paragraphs that contain at least 5sentences.

Execution

Here you are to type your answer clearly and succinctly usingstrong organization and proper grammar. Use citations correctly

Provide at least 3 paragraphs that contain at least 5sentences

References

At the top of page 3, provide your references in APA Format.Provide at least 3 references for your paper.

Some of the Course Keys concepts

Financial planning

Strategic Budgeting

Strategic planning

Management and decision making

accounts receivable

Third party payers

Cost shifting

Incremental cost

Working capital

Current assets

current liabilities

financial statements

future trends

Question 1

Identify the item below that is not one of the four different types of data processing activities.

		deleting
		reading
		creating
		using

Question 2

All of the following are advantages of an ERP system except

		ERPs permit manufacturing plants to receive new orders in real time.
		in an ERP, data input is captured or keyed once.
		it takes considerable experience and training to use an ERP system effectively.
		ERPs permit management to gain greater visibility into every area of the enterprise.

Question 3

Sam Jones has been the controller of Downtown Tires for 25 years. Ownership of the firm recently changed hands and the new owners are conducting an audit of the financial records. The audit has been unable to reproduce financial reports that were prepared by Sam. While there is no evidence of wrongdoing, the auditors are concerned that the discrepancies might contribute to poor decisions. Which of the following characteristics of useful information is absent in the situation described above?

		relevant
		reliable
		complete
		timely
		understandable
		verifiable
		accessible

Question 4

An ERP system might facilitate the purchase of direct materials by all of the following except

		preparing a purchase order when inventory falls to reorder point.
		routing a purchase order to a purchasing agent for approval.
		communicating a purchase order to a supplier.
		selecting the best supplier by comparing bids.

Question 5

Antia Carmie is the largest collector and retailer of Japanese fans in the St. Louis area. Antia uses computer technology to provide superior customer service. The store's database system was designed to make detailed information about each Japanese fan easily accessible to her customers. Accordingly, the fan price and condition are provided for each fan, along with many pictures of each fan. In Antia's database, the price of the Japanese fans is a(n)

		entity.
		attribute.
		field.
		record.

Question 6

Which of the following is not considered a source document?

		A copy of the company's shipping document.
		A copy of the company's ledger.
		A copy of the company's sales journal.
		A copy of the company's financial statements.

Question 7

In an ERP system, the module used to record data about transactions in the disbursement cycle is called

		financial.
		order to cash.
		customer relationship management.
		purchase to pay.

Question 8

Baggins Incorporated identifies new product development and product improvement as the top corporate goals. An employee developed an innovation that will correct a shortcoming in one of the company's products. Although Baggins current Return on Investment (ROI) is 12%, the product innovation is expected to generate ROI of only 10%. As a result, awarding bonuses to employees based on ROI resulted in

		goal conflict.
		information overload.
		decreased value of information.
		goal congruence.

Question 9

________ are examples of activities that constitute inbound logistics.

		Activities that transform inputs into final products or services
		Activities that provide post-sale support to customers
		Activities that consist of receiving, storing, and distributing the materials used as inputs by the organization to create goods and/or services it sells
		Activities that help customers to buy the organization's products or services

Question 10

In which transaction cycle would information for inventory purchases be most likely to pass between internal and external accounting information systems?

		the revenue cycle
		the expenditure cycle
		the human resources / payroll cycle
		the financing cycle

Question 11

The collection of customer payment is part of which transaction cycle?

		the human resources cycle
		the production cycle
		the revenue cycle
		the expenditure cycle

Question 12

Which of the following is an example of source data automation?

		POS (point-of-sale) scanners in retail stores
		a bill of lading
		a subsidiary ledger
		a utility bill

Question 13

All of the following are guidelines for developing a good coding system except

		be as sophisticated as possible to promote usage.
		be consistent with its intended use.
		be flexible to allow for growth.
		be consistent with the company's organization structure.

Question 14

What is a key decision that needs to be made with regards to borrowing money from lenders?

		the location
		pro forma income statement
		how much capital to acquire
		job descriptions

Question 15

Identify the false statement below.

		A service company does not have an inventory system.
		Retail stores do not have a production cycle.
		Financial institutions have installment-loan cycles.
		Every organization should implement every transaction cycle module.

Question 16

The chart of accounts of a fast-food restaurant would probably include

		a list of customers.
		a list of financial statement accounts.
		a list of vendors.
		a list of employees.

Question 17

Which statement below regarding the AIS is false?

		Traditionally, most AIS have been designed so that both financial and operational data are stored in a manner that facilitates their integration in reports.
		The AIS must be able to provide managers with detailed and operational information about the organization's performance.
		Both traditional financial measures and operational data are required for proper and complete evaluation of performance.
		The AIS was often just one of the information systems used by an organization to collect and process financial and nonfinancial data.

Question 18

In Petaluma, California, electric power is provided to consumers by Pacific Power. Each month Pacific Power mails bills to 186,000 households and then processes payments as they are received. What is the best way for this business to ensure that payment data entry is efficient and accurate?

		well-designed paper forms
		turnaround documents
		source data automation
		sequentially numbered bills

Question 19

Data must be converted into information to be considered useful and meaningful for decision making. There are seven characteristics that make information both useful and meaningful. If the same information can be reproduced by two independent and knowledgeable people, it is representative of the characteristic of