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HSA 525 Week 4 Assignment 1 Financial Statement Analysis
HSA 525 Week 6 Assignment 2 Using Financial Ratios to Assess
Organizational Performance
HSA 525 Week 10 Assignment 3 Post-Merger Analysis

HSA 525 Week 1 Discussion 1 Financial Management
HSA 525 Week 2 Discussion Inflows and Revenue Management
HSA 525 Week 3 Discussion 1 Cost Control
HSA 525 Week 4 Discussion Inventory Analysis and Optimizing
Staffing
HSA 525 Week 5 Discussion Managed Care Contracting and
Ratio Analysis
HSA 525 Week 6 Discussion Using Ratios as Performance
Indicators and Inflation and Health Care Costs
HSA 525 Week 7 Discussion The Budgeting Process and Capital
Investment Decisions
HSA 525 Week 8 Discussion Contract Negotiations and Risks
and Operating Margins

HSA 525 Week 9 Discussion Leasing Equipment
HSA 525 Week 10 Discussion Strategic Planning and Business
Plan
HSA 525 Week 11 Discussion Future Developments and Future
of Financial Management
HSA 525 Week 2 Homework 1 Ex 4-1, Ex 4-2, Ex 5-1, Ex 5-2
HSA 525 Week 4 Homework 3 Ex 8-1, Ex 8-2, Ex 8-3, Ex 8-4, Ex
9-1, Ex 9-2
HSA 525 Week 5 Homework Ex 10-1, 10-2,10-3, Ex 11-1, 11-2,
11-3, Ex 12-1, 12-2, 12-3, 12-4, 12-5
HSA 525 Week 6 Homework 5 Ex 13-3, 13-4.1, 13-4.2, Ex 14-2,
14-3

HSA 525 Week 7 Homework 6 Ex 15-1, 15-2, 15-3, and 15-4,
Ex16-1
HSA 525 Week 8 Homework 7 Ex 17-1, 17-2, 17-3, Ex 18-1, 18-2,
18-3
HSA 525 Week 9 Homework 8 Ex 20-1, Ex 21-1, 21-2, 21-3

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Select two (2) health care organizations that represent a health
care product, service, or company and that are publicly traded
on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or NASDAQ market.
Make sure that your companies are competitive in nature.

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"Financial Management" Please respond to the following:
• Suggest one (1) key way in which the role of ethics in
managerial accounting differs from the role of ethics in
financial accounting. Indicate the role that you believe is the
most significant within a health care organization. Provide
support for your rationale.

• Create an argument that explains why financial managers
should be concerned with quality initiatives in the health care
organization. Provide at least two (2) specific examples of
quality initiatives in a health care organization with which you
are familiar.

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Identify a contemporary health care trend and describe how
the issue affects the organization from a business perspective.

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Post updates about your companies. Have they launched a new
product? Have they been involved in a scandal? Have they
recently been fined for lack of compliance? Are their stocks
fluctuating or holding steady? If nothing has changed, compare
different aspects of the companies. Is one stronger or weaker in
an area than the other? Is there something on which they could
work together?

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Post updates about your companies. Have they launched a new
product? Have they been involved in a scandal? Have they
recently been fined for lack of compliance? Are their stocks
fluctuating or holding steady? If nothing has changed, compare
different aspects of the companies. Is one stronger or weaker in
an area than the other? Is there something on which they could
work together?

Failure to comply with EMTALA can put the organization at
significant financial risk and can put individuals at both
criminal and financial risk.
As a financial manager, what processes would you put in place
to comply with the law?

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Exercise 4–1: Contractual Allowances Assignment Exercise 4–1:
Contractual Allowances Physician Office Revenue for Visit Code
99214 has a full established rate of $72.00. Of ten different
payers, there are nine different contracted rates, as follows:
Contracted Payer Rate FHP $35.70 HPHP 58.85 MC 54.90 UND
60.40 CCN 70.20 MO 70.75 CGN 10.00 PRU 54.90 PHCS 50.00
ANA 45.00 Rates for illustration only. Required 1. Set up a
worksheet with four columns: Payer, Full Rate, Contracted
Rate, and Contractual Allowance. 2. For each payer, enter the
full rate and the contracted rate. 3. For each payer, compute the

contractual allowance. The first payer has been computed
below: Full Contracted Contractual Payer Rate (less) Rate =
Allowance FHP $72.00 $35.70 $36.30
Assignment Exercise 4–2: Revenue Sources and Grouping
Revenue The Metropolis Health System has revenue sources
from operations, donations, and interest income. The revenue
from operations is primarily received for services. MHS groups
its rev-enue first by cost center. Within each cost center the
services revenue is then grouped by payer. Required 1. Set up a
worksheet with individual columns across the top for six
revenue sources (pay-ers): Medicare, Medicaid, Other Public
Programs, Patients, Commercial Insurance, and Managed Care
Contracts. 2. Certain situations concerning the Intensive Care
Unit and the Laboratory are described below. Set up six vertical
line items on your worksheet, numbered (1) through (6). Six
situa-tions are described below. For each of the six situations,
indicate its number (1 through 6) and enter the appropriate
cost center (either Intensive Care Unit or Laboratory). Then
place an X in the column(s) that represents the correct revenue
source(s) for the item. The six situations are as follows: (1) ICU
stay billed to employee’s insurance program. (2) Lab test paid
for by an individual. (3) Pathology work performed for the
state. (4) ICU stay billed to member’s health plan. (5) ICU stay
billed for Medicare beneficiary. (6) Series of allergy tests run
for eligible Medicaid beneficiary.
Assignment Exercise 5–1: Grouping Expenses by Cost Center
The Metropolis Health System’s Rehabilitation and Wellness
Center offers outpatient therapy and return-to-work services
plus cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation to get people back to

a normal way of living. The Rehabilitation and Wellness Center
expenses include the following: • Nursing Salaries • Physical
Therapist Supplies • Physical Therapist Salaries • Occupational
Therapist Supplies • Occupational Therapist Salaries • Cardiac
Rehab Supplies • Cardiac Rehab Salaries • Pulmonary Rehab
Supplies • Pulmonary Rehab Salaries • Training Supplies •
Patient Education Coordinator Salary • Clerical Office Supplies •
Nursing Supplies • Employee Education Required 1. Decide how
many cost centers should be used for the above expenses at the
Center. 2. Set up a worksheet with individual columns across
the top for the cost centers you have chosen. 3. For each of the
expenses listed above, indicate to which of your cost centers it
should be assigned.
Assignment Exercise 5–2 Required Find a listing of expenses by
diagnosis or by procedure. The source of the list can be internal
(within a health care facility of some type) or external (such as
a published article, report, or survey). Comment upon whether
you believe the expense grouping used is appropriate. Would
you have grouped the expenses in another way?

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“Cost Control” Please respond to the following:
• Use the Internet or Strayer Databases to research “cost
escalation” within the health care segment. Next, determine
one (1) key driver of health care cost escalation. Indicate one
(1) strategy health care managers can implement to reduce
costs in the future. Provide support for your rationale.
• Assume that you are a financial administrator of a hospital,
and you are responsible for reducing costs (e.g., fixed, variable,

semi-fixed, etc.) for the facility. Determine the most significant
cost within the hospital, and recommend a strategy for
reducing this cost 10% over the next year. Provide support for
your strategy.

Over the past two weeks we have focused on various healthcare
regulations, EMTALA, fraud and abuse. The article below
highlights the consequences an organization can face when
federal regulations are violated. One of the most immediate
concerns for me would be the HIPAA, HITECH and Patient Bill of
Rights (privacy) violations that occurred.

As a financial manager consider how you would monitor and
prevent such violations. What would you do to off-set the 17
million fine. How do you ensure patients their security, privacy
and medical treatment will be protected. We are all familiar
with the stigma associated with chronic diseases, HIV is one
that continues to lurk in the shadows.
Now imagine you are a patient of AETNA, how would you
respond? What is your plan of action? Would you continue to
utilize this provider, why or why not?

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Assignment Exercise 6–1: Allocating Indirect Costs
1. Compute the costs allocated to cost centers “Clerical
Salaries,” “Administrative Salaries,” and “Computer Services”
using the new allocation bases shown below. Use worksheet #1
that replicates the set up in Table 6–2. Total the new results.
The new allocation bases are:
Assignment Exercise 6–2: Responsibility Centers
Choose among the Case Study in Chapter 27, the clinic in Mini-
Case Study 2, or the Metropolis Health System information as
contained in its Case Study and the Appendix that contains its
financial statements. Designate the responsibility centers and
the support centers for the organization selected. Prepare a
rationale for the structure you have designed.
Assignment Exercise 7–1: Analyzing Mixed Costs
Initial Calculations
Assignment Exercise 7–2: Calculating the Contribution Margin

The Mental Health program for the Community Center has just
completed its fiscal year end. The program director determines
that his program has revenue for the year of $1,210,000. He
believes his variable expense amounts to $205,000 and he
knows his fixed expense amounts to $1,100,000.
1. Compute the contribution margin for the Community Center
Mental Health Program.
2. What does the result tell you about the program?

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regulations, EMTALA, fraud and abuse. The article below
highlights the consequences an organization can face when
federal regulations are violated. One of the most immediate
concerns for me would be the HIPAA, HITECH and Patient Bill of
Rights (privacy) violations that occurred.

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Assignment 1: Financial Statement Analysis
Due Week 4 and worth 200 points

Select one (1) of the following publically traded health care
organizations: Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) or Health
Management Associates (NYSE: HMA).
Suppose you are a newly appointed CFO of your chosen health
care organization. One of your first tasks is to conduct an
internal financial analysis of the organization. Conduct a brief
financial analysis and review of the chosen company’s financial
statements for at least three (3) consecutive years. After
conducting the analysis, interpret the data contained within the
statements.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
Based on your review of the financial statements, suggest a key
insight about the financial health of the company. Speculate on
the likely reaction to the financial statements from various
stakeholder groups (employee, investors, shareholders).
Provide support for your rationale.
Identify the current industrytrend that has the most significant
impact on your chosen organization’s financial performance.
Indicate the trend’s impact on the financial performance of the
organization. As the CFO, suggest at least one (1) way that you
might minimize the impact of the trend on the organization.
As the CFO, suggest one (1) key strategy that you might use in
order to improve the financial performance of the organization.

Recommend an approach to implement the suggested strategy.
Provide support for your recommendation.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources. Note:
Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic
resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and
references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check
with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
Evaluate the financial statements and the financial position of
health care institutions.
Analyze the role of important financial reporting statements –
income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows –

and explain how they relate to one another and to the
underlying sources of data.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in
health financial management.
Write clearly and concisely about health financial management
using proper writing mechanics.

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“Inventory Analysis and Optimizing Staffing” Please respond to
the following:
• Recommend a strategy for financial administrators to balance
the tension between having inventory on hand when it is
needed versus the carry cost to the organization. Provide
support for your recommendation.

• Assume that you are a health care administrator in a hospital,
and you are responsible for staffing levels. Suggest an approach
to staffing for 24/7 coverage that optimizes patient care,
minimizes cost, and produces the highest level of employee
satisfaction. Provide support for your rationale.

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Take a look at the revenue cycle. What factors contribute to its
complexity? Where do you see the greatest opportunity for
human error? How could you help avoid this or employ
corrective measures?

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Have they launched a new product? Have they been involved in
a scandal? Have they recently been fined for lack of
compliance? Are their stocks fluctuating or holding steady?
If nothing has changed, compare different aspects of the
companies. Is one stronger or weaker in an area than the
other? Is there something on which they could work together?

Note: These are suggested topics; you may discuss any topic
related to your companies. As the e-activities will be used for
the larger assignments in the course you may want to use these
updates as a place to draft your ideas and get feedback.

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Assignment Exercise 8–1: FIFO and LIFO Inventory
Use the format in Exhibit 8–1 to compute the ending FIFO
inventory and the cost of goods sold, assuming $90,000 in sales;
beginning inventory 500 units @ $50; purchases of 400 units @
$50; 100 units @ $65; 400 units @ $85.

Also compute the cost of goods sold percentage of sales.
Comment on the difference in outcomes.
Assignment Exercise 8–2: Inventory Turnover
Use the LIFO information in the previous assignment to first
compute the average inventory and then to compute the
inventory turnover.
Assignment Exercise 8–3: Depreciation Concept
The laboratory equipment cost $300,000 and has an expected
life of 5 years. The salvage value is 5% of cost. No equipment
was traded in on this purchase.
Compute the straight-line depreciation.
Assignment Exercise 8–4: Depreciation
Set up a purchase scenario of your own and compute the
depreciation with and without salvage value.
The neonatal unit equipment cost $60,000, and has an expected
life of 5 years, no salvage. Compute the straight line
depreciation.

Assignment Exercise 8–5: Depreciation Computation: Units-of-
Service
Using the format in Table 8–A-5, compute units of service
depreciation using the following assumptions:
Assignment Exercise 9–1: FTEs to Annualize Staffing
The Metropolis Health System managers are also working on
their budgets for next year. Each manager must annualize his
or her staffing plan, and thus must convert staff net paid days
worked to a factor. Each manager has the MHS worksheet,
which shows 9 holidays, 7 sick days, 15 vacation days, and 3
education days, equaling 34 paid days per year not worked.
Assignment Exercise 9–2: FTEs to Fill a Position
Metropolis Health System (MHS) uses a basic work week of 40
hours throughout the system. Thus, one full-time employee
works 40 hours per week. MHS also uses a standard 24-hour
scheduling system of three 8-hour shifts. The Director of
Nursing needs to compute the staffing requirements to fill the
Operating Room (OR) positions. Since MHS is a trauma center,
the OR is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At present,
staffing is identical for all 7 days of the week, although the
Director of Nursing is questioning the efficiency of this method.

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“Managed Care Contracting and Ratio Analysis” Please respond
to the following:
• From the scenario, interpret the operating indicators used to
analyze the financial performance of the organization. Indicate
specific ways in which this information will help management
improve the performance of the organization. Provide support
for your rationale.

• Assume that you are a hospital administrator, and one of your
responsibilities is selecting financial ratios to be included on
your management dashboard. Determine the two (2) most
critical financial ratios for you to monitor at your facility, and
indicate how each of these ratios would help you assess the
current performance of your facility. Provide support for your
rationale.

Which do you believe is more effective as a financial plan:
prospective payment or retrospective payment? What are the
pros and cons of each? What are the services that you believe
would be better served by the other plan?

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Assignment Exercise 10–1: Components of Balance Sheet and
Statement of Net Income
Identify the following MHS balance sheet components. List the
name of each component and its amount(s) from the
appropriate MHS financial statement.

Current Liabilities
Total Assets
Income from Operations
Accumulated Depreciation
Total Operating Revenue
Current Portion of Long-Term Debt
Interest Income
Inventories
Income Statement
Refer to the Metropolis Health System (MHS) balance sheet and
statement of revenue and expense in Chapter 28’s MHS Case
Study. Patient accounts receivable of $7,400,000 is shown as
net of $1,300,000 allowance for bad debts (8,700,000 −
1,300,000 = 7,400,000).
(1) What percentage of gross accounts receivable is the
allowance for bad debts?
Income Statement
Refer to the Metropolis Health System (MHS) balance sheet and
statement of revenue and expense in Chapter 28’s MHS Case

Study. Property, plant, and equipment of $19,300,000 is shown
as “net,” meaning net of the reserve for depreciation. If the
$19,300,000 is reduced by $200,000 (meaning the reserve for
depreciation has risen), what happens on the income
statement?
If the reserve for depreciation has risen, that is the $19,300,000
is reduced by $200,000, it would mean that the net income
would be lower. A higher depreciation lowers operating
income and this would be reflected on the income statement.
Assignment Exercise 11–1: Liquidity Ratios
Refer to the Metropolis Health System (MHS) case study in
Chapter 28.
1. Set up a worksheet for the liquidity ratios.
The liquidity ratios are
2. Compute the four liquidity ratios using the Chapter 28 MHS
financial statement
Assignment Exercise 11–2: Solvency Ratios
Chapter 28.
1. Set up a worksheet for the solvency ratios.

2. Compute the solvency ratios using the Chapter 28 MHS
financial statements
Assignment Exercise 11–3: Profitability Ratios
Chapter 28.
1. Set up a worksheet for the profitability ratios.
The profitability ratios are: -
2. Compute the profitability ratios using the Chapter 28 MHS
financial statements
Assignment Exercise 12–1: Unadjusted Rate of Return
Metropolis Health Systems’ Laboratory Director expects to
purchase a new piece of equipment. The assumptions for the
transaction are as follows:
1. Compute the unadjusted rate of return using the original
investment amount.
2. Compute the unadjusted rate of return using the average
investment method.
Assignment Exercise 12–2: Finding the Future Value (with a
Compound Interest Table)
Compute how much money will be in the account at the end of
four more years. (Use the compound interest table found in
Appendix 12-B.)

Assignment Exercise 12–3: Finding the Present Value (with a
Present-Value Table)
Part 1—Dr. John Whitten is still figuring out his equipment
fund. According to his calculations he needs $250,000 to be
accumulated six years from now. John is now trying to find the
present value of the $250,000. He continues to assume an
interest rate of 5%.
Compute the present value of $250,000 accumulated fifteen
years from now. Assume an interest rate of 5%. (Use the
Present-Value Table found in Appendix 12-A at the back of this
chapter.)
Part 2—John doesn’t like the answer he gets. What if he can
raise the interest rate to 7%? How much difference would that
make?
Compute the present value of $250,000 accumulated fifteen
years from now assuming an interest rate of 7%.
Compare the difference between this amount and the present
value at 5%.
Assignment Exercise 12–4: Computing an Internal Rate of
Return

Dr. Whitten has decided to purchase equipment that has a cost
of $60,000 and will produce a pretax net cash inflow of $30,000
per year over its estimated useful life of six years. The
equipment will have no salvage value and will be depreciated
by the straight-line method. The tax rate is 50%. Determine Dr.
Whitten’s approximate after-tax internal rate of return.
Assignment Exercise 12–5: Payback Period
Based on the calculations, he should purchase Machine B. It
would take approximately two and a half years (2.4 years) for
the investment made in Machine B to be equal to the amount of
cash originally spent buying the machine. It would take
Machine A 3 years to pay back the money spent to purchase it.

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Assignment 2: Using Financial Ratios to Assess Organizational
Performance
Due Week 6 and worth 240 points
Using the financial statements from your selected health care
organization in Assignment 1, develop a financial plan for the
next three (3) years.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
1. Suggest the financial ratio that most financial analysts would
use to evaluate the financial condition of the company. Provide
support for your rationale.
2. Speculate on the organization's ability to meet its financial
obligations as they come due. Provide support for your
rationale.
3. Based on your ratio analysis, determine whether the
profitability trends are favorable or unfavorable and explain
your rationale.
4. Using financial ratio analysis, predict whether or not the
company will be viable in five (5) years based on its
performance over the past three (3) years. Provide support for
your prediction.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources. Note:
Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic
resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and
references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check
with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment,
the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and
the date. The cover page and the reference page are not
included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
• Evaluate the financial statements and the financial position of
health care institutions.
• Describe the overall planning process and the key
components of the financial plan.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues
in health financial management.

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“Using Ratios as Performance Indicators and Inflation and
Health Care Costs” Please respond to the following:
• Suggest one (1) key financial ratio that a health care
administrator should create a trend analysis for. Suggest one
(1) key insight that may be gained by the administrator in
regard to the performance of the organization. Provide support
for your rationale.
• Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research the current
and projected inflation rates and the related impact expected
on health care costs. Next, assess the level of importance of one
(1) key driver of the inflation of health care costs. Indicate how
this inflation can be managed strategically in the future to
minimize the financial impact. Provide support for your
rationale.

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“Using Ratios as Performance Indicators and Inflation and
Health Care Costs” Please respond to the following:
• Suggest one (1) key financial ratio that a health care
administrator should create a trend analysis for. Suggest one
(1) key insight that may be gained by the administrator in
regard to the performance of the organization. Provide support
for your rationale.

• Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research the current
and projected inflation rates and the related impact expected
on health care costs. Next, assess the level of importance of one
(1) key driver of the inflation of health care costs. Indicate how
this inflation can be managed strategically in the future to
minimize the financial impact. Provide support for your
rationale.

There are three major ways health care providers can control
their revenue function. How do market share and price-
influencing factors impact this functionality? Which do you
think is the most effective? Are there circumstances in which
this could change?

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Assignment Exercise 13–3
As a follow-up to the previous Practice Exercise, new
assumptions are as follows:
1. Your unit’s gross charges for the period to date amount to
$200,000.
2. The uniform gross charge for each procedure in your unit is
$100.

3. The unit receives revenue from four major payers. The
number of procedures performed for the period totals 2,000. Of
that total, the number of procedures per payer (stated as a
percentage) is as follows: Payer 1 = 30% Payer 2 = 40% Payer 3
= 20% Payer 4 = 10%
4. The following contractual payment arrangements are in
effect for the current period. The percentage of the gross
charge that is currently paid by each payer is as follows: Payer
1 = 80% [Medicare] Payer 2 = 70% [Commercial managed care
plans] Payer 3 = 50% [Medicaid] Payer 4 = 90% [Self-pay]
Assignment Exercise 13–4.1: Forecast Capacity Levels
Prepare another Infusion Center Capacity Level Forecast as
follows:
Assume the same three infusion chairs, but add another nurse
for either four or six hours per day. How would this change the
daily capacity level for number of patients infused per day?
Assignment Exercise 13–4.2
Prepare another Infusion Center Capacity Level Forecast as
follows:
Increase the number of infusion chairs to four, and add another
nurse for either four or six hours per day. How would this

change the daily capacity level for number of patients infused
per day?
Assignment Exercise 14–2: Cumulative Inflation Factor for
Comparable Data
Revise Hospital 2’s projections by applying a cumulative
inflation factor of 5% per year.
Assignment Exercise 14–3
The head of your department is a prominent researcher. A
health research foundation has asked him travel to London to
give an important speech at a conference. He will then travel to
Paris to tour a research facility before returning home.
Although his travel expenses are being funded by the
foundation, he will still need to take along some personal
money. Consequently, he asks you to figure the exchange rates
for $500 and for $1,000 in both pounds and euros. He explains
that he is trying to judge the spending power of U.S. dollars
when converted to the other currencies so he can decide how
much personal money to take on the trip.
Assignment Exercise 14–4: The Discovery
The Chief Financial Officer at Sample General Hospital has just
discovered that the hospital’s Chief of the Medical Staff’s son
Jason, a student at the local community college, is paid $100 per
week year-round for grounds maintenance at the hospital’s
Outpatient Center.

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The Budgeting Process and Capital Investment Decisions”
Please respond to the following:
• Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research information
related to the budgeting processes within the various types of
health care organizations. Next, determine the most-effective
budgeting approach for a hospital, indicating how this

approach can lead to effective financial management of the
facility. Provide support for your rationale.
• Assume that you are an administrator for a hospital, and you
need to acquire a new technology system so that you may
comply with regulatory requirements. Create an argument to
be presented to the leadership team in which you justify the
need for your facility to invest in this new technology. Then
indicate the value to the organization and provide support for
your argument.ter.

There has been a dramatic shift from inpatient to outpatient
services and emphasis on shortening patient stays. Why is this?
What has impacted this decision? In your opinion,was this shift
made for medical reasons or financial ones?

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Have they launched a new product? Have they been involved in
a scandal? Have they recently been fined for lack of
compliance? Are their stocks fluctuating or holding steady?
If nothing has changed, compare different aspects of the
companies. Is one stronger or weaker in an area than the
other? Is there something on which they could work together?

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“Contract Negotiations and Risks and Operating Margins”
Please respond to the following:
• In the scenario, the contract negotiations between North
Creek Healthcare and the community hospital concluded with
an agreement on non-financial (legal) terms. Suggest the most
critical element of the contract and the impact to the short-
term and long-term operational strategy of a community
hospital. Indicate the potential implications to the hospital’s
financial targets.

• Imagine you work for a hospital where the operating margins
have been consistently below national norms for the past three
(3) years. Discuss one (1) key driver of the below average
performance. Suggest one (1) strategy to improve the future
management of the driver that you’ve discussed.members.

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