HSM 340 Week 1 Assignment: Financial Laws and Regulation
HSM-340 Week 1 Discussion Question 1 – Finance and the Regulatory Components
HSM 340 Week 1 Discussion Question 2 – Reimbursement and Payment Determination
HSM-340 Week 2 Discussion Question 1 – Accounting Conventions and Methods
HSM-340 Week 2 Discussion Question 2 – Financial Performance
HSM 340 Week 2 Quiz (Q & A)
HSM-340 Week 3 Discussion Question 1 – Cost Categories
HSM 340 Week 3 Discussion Question 2 – Cost Information
HSM-340 Week 3 Quiz (Q & A)
HSM 340 Week 4 Discussion Question 1 – Financial Sources
HSM-340 Week 4 Discussion Question 2 – Financial Theories and Concepts
HSM 340 Week 4 Midterm (Q & A)
HSM 340 Week 5 Assignment: Capital Budgeting Process
HSM-340 Week 5 Discussion Question 1 – Capital Investments
HSM 340 Week 5 Discussion Question 2 – Future and Present Value
HSM-340 Week 6 Assignment: Cash and Working Capital
HSM 340 Week 6 Discussion Question 1 – Cash and Assets
HSM-340 Week 6 Discussion 2 – Cash Resources
HSM 340 Week 7 Discussion Question 1 – HMO, MCO and Health Plans
HSM-340 Week 7 Discussion Question 2 Financial Policy
HSM 340 Week 7 Quiz (Q & A)
HSM 340 Week 8 Final Exam (Q & A)
Course Related Tutorials
- Question: (TCO 2) A statement that reports inflows and outflows of cash during the accounting period in the categories of operations, investing, and financing, is called a(an):
- Question: (TCO 2) Which method(s) of financial reporting does (do) not recognize the impact of changes in purchasing power?
- Question: (TCO 2) Which of the following is the BEST example of a financial metric?
- Question: (TCO 2) What is/(are) the primary determinant(s) of firm value?
- Question: (TCO 2) How are revenues and expenses defined under accrual accounting?
- Question: (TCO 2) What is an audit (in the context of financial accounting)?
- Question: (TCO 2) The HC method, which uses unadjusted historical costs, does not take into account depreciation expenses, purchasing power, and unrealized gains in replacement value. Despite these weaknesses as a financial reporting method, the HC method is used more frequently for accounting purposes than other methods, such as the HC-GPL, CV, and CV-GPL methods. Why is this so?
- Question: (TCO 2) Define and describe the purpose of fund accounting (now called net assets).
- Question: (TCO 3) From a hospital’s perspective, what is most likely to be the highest risk arrangement with a payer?
- Question: (TCO 3)SKF Primary Care Clinic is deciding whether to purchase MRI equipment that would enable it to perform MRI imaging services in-house rather than sending its patients to its competitor’s hospital three miles away. From a financial position, if SKF were to make its decision without using net present value analysis, the clinic would need to know (or at least reasonably estimate) which of the following information?
- Question: (TCO 3) Assume that the clinic used the price that they need to exactly break even at 10,000 shots. Fewer people than expected showed up and purchased the flu shot. The clinic would:
- Question: (TCO 3) Which of the following is the first step in any budgetary process?
- Question: (TCO 3) David Jones, the new administrator for a surgical clinic, was trying to determine how to allocate his indirect expenses. His staff was complaining that the current method of taking a percentage of revenues was unfair. He decided to try to allocate utilities based on square footage of each department, administration based on direct costs, and laboratory based on tests. Use the information in the chart below to answer the question.
- Question: (TCO 3) Your hospital has been approached by a major HMO to perform all their MS-DRG 470 cases (major joint procedures). They have offered a flat price of $10,000 per case. You have reviewed your charges for MS-DRG 470 during the last year and found the following profile:
- Question: (TCO 3) How are costs classified?
- Question: (TCO 7) A withhold is a feature for payment to health care provider that:
- Question: (TCO 7) A medical group includes a provision in its contract with an HMO to receive larger PMPM payments if the HMO members are chronically ill. This type of provision is referred to as a:
- Question: (TCO 7) Suppose that AT&T had made an offer to acquire Merck Pharmaceuticals. Ignoring potential antitrust problems, this merger would be classified as a:
- Question: (TCO 7) An HMO has a Point of Service (POS) option for its members, but will pay only 80 percent of approved charges. If a member goes out of network for a medical procedure with a charge of $2,000, of which $1,200 is approved, how much must the member pay?
- Question: (TCO 7) An uninsured patient receives services with charges of $5,000 from a hospital. The hospital staff bills the patient $1,000 and records $4,000 as charity care. If the hospital’s ratio of cost to charges is 50%, what amount would the hospital recognize as charity care in Schedule H of IRS Form 990?
- Question: (TCO 7) Why is tax-exempt financing cited as a benefit received by not-for-profit healthcare providers?
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- Question: (TCO 4) Which of the following is part of a statistics budget?
- Question: (TCO 4) The following is an example of a ___ budget: “The budget for the radiology department is different at 90 percent occupancy than at 80 percent occupancy.”
- Question: (TCO 4) Effectiveness is a relationship between:
- Question: (TCO 3) What is the main reason that relative value units (RVUs) often are used in health care?
- Question: (TCO 3) Your controller has told you that the marginal profit of DRG 209 (major joint procedure) for a Medicare patient exceeds the marginal profit for an average charge patient. Why might this occur?
- Question: (TCO 2) The heading of every financial statement should contain the:
- Question: (TCO 2) Which of the following is the BEST example of a financial metric?
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- Question: (TCO 4) Formulate your answer based on the below information. Costs per case increased to $4,900 from a budgeted value of $4,750. This increased actual total costs by what amount?…..You have been asked by management to explain the variances in costs under your inpatient capitated contract.
- Question: (TCO 4) Based on the information below, assume that the only change in the original example data is that Blue Cross raises their discount to 20 percent. What price should be set? You have been asked to establish a pricing structure for radiology on a per-procedure basis………
- Question: (TCO 4) What is the amount of variance that can be attributed to the difference between budgeted and actual volume? Use the following data to calculate the variances. The following information has been prepared for a home health agency.
- Question: (TCO 2) Explain the difference between the accrual basis of accounting and the cash basis of accounting?
- Question: (TCO 2) What is an audit (in the context of financial accounting)?
- Question: (TCO 1) What are social responsibility and ethics as they relate to business-oriented organizations? How should social responsibility and ethics affect the decisions of even for-profit companies?
- Question: (TCO 2) Define and describe the purpose of fund accounting (now called net assets).
- Question: (TCO 4) When would it make sense to use a flexible budget as compared to a forecast budget?
- Question: (TCO 7) Explain the difference between a horizontal merger and a vertical merger.
- Question: (TCO 1) Describe the Outpatient Code Editor.
- Question: (TCO 1) What is the primary provision of the EMTALA.
- Question: (TCO 3) Use the following data to calculate the variances in problem. data Your hospital has been approached by a major HMO to perform all their MS-DRG 470 cases (major joint procedures). They have offered a flat price of $10,000 per case……..?
- Question: (TCO 2) Explain the difference between the accrual basis of accounting and the cash basis of accounting.?
- Question: (TCO 2) What are the double-entry accounting system and the duality concept? How are they related?
- Question: (TCO 5) Define an annuity.
- Question : (TCO 5) What avenues are available for for-profit healthcare providers to increase their equity position?
- Question: (TCO 6) Describe the two major components of a working capital management strategy?
- Question: (TCO 6) What is the general rule of thumb about when to borrow long-term or short-term?
- Question: (TCO 5) How should the interest rate and n periods of compounding be modified if compounding for less than one year?