Week 8 – Assignment: Summarize Key Finance Issues in Healthcare Management

Week 8 – Assignment: Summarize Key Finance Issues in Healthcare Management

Week 8 – Assignment: Summarize Key Finance Issues in Healthcare Management

Instructions

For this assignment, select a healthcare organization with which you are familiar. It could be your current place of employment, past place of employment, or another organization.

Prepare a comprehensive presentation to share with fellow employees, senior leadership, and potentially your patients that distinguishes your firm from the competition. Explain how your organization is remaining competitive. Articulate how quality service is being maintained for both medical providers and patients.

Your presentation must focus on healthcare concepts, financial analysis, and decision-making concepts that were presented in this course (e.g., accounting information, billing and coding, pricing and revenue determination with third parties, healthcare accounting terminology, comparative financial and operating benchmark values, cost finding and break-even analysis, working capital management, and budgeting). Provide detailed examples to support your findings.

Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists.

Support your presentation with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.

Length: 15-20 slides (with a separate reference slide)

Notes Length: 150-200 words for each slide

Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate.

Watch Video for additional information: United States White House. (2013). President Obama and President Clinton discuss healthcare [Video file]. President Obama and President Clinton Discuss Health Care, New York, NY, September 24, 2013 produced by United States. White House (District of Columbia: United States. White House, 2013), 55 mins

Criteria Content (15 points) Points Evaluated how the selected organization remains competitive (5). Assessed how quality service is maintained for both medical providers and patients (5). Presentation focused on healthcare concepts, financial analysis, and decision-making concepts that were presented in this course (5). Organization (5 points) Included speaker notes for each slide, animations, transitions, and graphics. Included a minimum of five scholarly references, with appropriate APA formatting applied to citations and paraphrasing. Presentation is 15-20 slides long (5). Total 20 points