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• MHA 612 Entire Course
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• MHA 612 Week 1 Assignment Ownership Forms of
  Health Care Organizations
• MHA 612 Week 1 DQ 2
• MHA 612 Week 2 Assignment Anti Trust
• MHA 612 Week 2 Discussion 1 Understanding the
  Health Care Reform Act

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• MHA 612 Week 1 Assignment Ownership Forms of
  Health Care Organizations
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• Review Chapter 1 of your course text and
  formulate a response to the following topic
• You are an external consultant with 10 years
  experience in your field. Fifty doctors are
  trying to get together to form a health care
  organization, and they come to you for
  suggestions on developing the ownership form for
  the organization. It is your job to advise them
  on what common ownership forms are available for
  the organization and provide an example of each.
  Additionally, you must discuss the following

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• MHA 612 Week 1 DQ 2
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• Define the terms gap and parity as they
  relate to health information systems.
• List the main categories of information and data.
• Discuss three ways in which data can be monitored
  for quality. What happens when data quality is
  compromised?
• Discuss the health care industry rating in terms
  of information systems adoption.

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• MHA 612 Week 2 Assignment Anti Trust
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• Anti-Trust. Prior to completing the assignment,
  review Chapter 4 of your course text.
• You are a manager with 5 years of experience and
  need to write a report for senior management on
  how your firm can avoid the threat of a Federal
  Trade Commission investigation if you were to
  merge with other health care organizations.
  Research on your own to select a health care
  organization in the United States that has been
  charged with an antitrust action within the last
  five years and use this information as the basis
  for your paper. In your report
• Summarize the charges and rebuttal or
  mitigation of charges used by the health care
  organization you researched.

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• MHA 612 Week 2 Discussion 1 Understanding the
  Health Care Reform Act
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• Understanding the Health Care Reform Act. 1st
  Post Due by Day 3. Navigate through the official
  website for
• Health Care Reform Act in 2010. Reflect on the
  following question
• How is the Patient and Affordable Care Act of
  2010 (the Health Care Reform Act) likely to
  reshape
• financial arrangements between hospitals,
  physicians, and other providers if Medicare makes
  a single payment for all care received by a
  beneficiary from 72 hours before admission to 30
  days after discharge from an inpatient facility?

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• MHA 612 Week 3 Assignment Financial Ratios
  Analysis and Comparison Paper
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• Financial Ratios Analysis and Comparison Paper.
  Prior to completing this assignment, review
  Chapter 10 and 12 in your course text.
• You are a mid-level manager in a health care
  organization and you have been asked to prepare a
  report, with appropriate exhibits, for the senior
  financial officer.
• Discuss the roles played by financial
  ratios in general and analyze the commonly used
  financial ratios by categories.

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• MHA 612 Week 3 Discussion 1 How to Improve
  Operating Margins
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• How to Improve Operating Margins. Prior to
  completing this discussion, read Assignment 1 in
  Chapter 11.
• What does operating margin tell you about the
  organization, and how would you calculate this
  ratio?
• Select a local medical service organization and
  describe how it has specifically improved its
  operating margins.
• Your initial post must be 300 to 350 words.
• Guided Response Challenge your peers to think
  about the difference between operating margin and
  total margin. Look at ways in which small changes
  in operations can result in huge changes in the
  margin. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates posts.

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• MHA 612 Week 3 DQ 2
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• MHA 612 Week 4 Assignment Zero Based Budgeting
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• Zero-Based Budgeting. Review the Zero-Based
  Budgeting PowerPoint presentation. The Board of
  Directors of Windsor Memorial Hospital has hired
  you to be their zero-based budget consultant.
  Specify how Windsor Memorial Hospital can
  implement a zero-based budget and provide your
  recommendations to the Board of Directors of the
  Hospital. Explain the benefits of implementing
  your recommendations and justify why you are
  making these specific recommendations.

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• MHA 612 Week 4 Discussion 2 Strategic Planning
  and Financial Planning
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• Strategic Planning and Financial Planning. Prior
  to completing this discussion, read Chapter 13
  from your course text. Select a health care
  organization and answer the following questions
  as they relate to your selected organization
• What is your understanding of strategic
  planning and financial planning?
• What if financial planning is not aligned with
  strategic planning? What are the consequences?
• Your initial post must be 300 to 350 words.

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• MHA 612 Week 5 Assignment Budgetary Variance
  Model Set 1
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• Budgetary Variance Model. Prior to completing
  this assignment, review Assignment 9 in Chapter
  17 of your course text. Prepare an evaluation of
  the performance of the Radiology Department
  Manager for a hospital.
• The service unit, or output, for this department
  is the number of procedures performed. A static
  budget was prepared at the beginning of the year.
  Examine that budget in relation to actual
  experience. The relevant data are included in
  Table 17-18 in your course text. The department
  manager is pleased because the department has a
  favorable 120,000 cost variance. Evaluate the
  effectiveness claims of the manager using the
  budgetary variance mode described in Chapter 17.
  What is your analysis of the department managers
  performance? Explain your reasoning.

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• MHA 612 Week 5 Discussion 1 Calculating the
  Break-Even Point
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• Calculating the Break-Even Point. Prior to
  completing this discussion, review Assignment 7
  in Chapter 14 of your course text. In your
  initial post, address the following points
• What is the role provided by break-even point,
  and how would you calculate this point?
• Please calculate break-even point in patient
  days under the provided contract.
• What are the limitations of using break-even
  point, and how would you incorporate this point
  with management strategic planning

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• MHA 612 Week 6 Discussion 1 Lowest Cost
  Alternative
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• Lowest Cost Alternative. 1st Post Due by Day 3.
  Prior to completing this discussion, review
  Assignment 1 in Chapter 19 of your course text.
  In your initial post, answer the following
  question
• What issues need to be taken into consideration
  to determine which is the lowest cost
  alternative?
• Your initial post must be 300 to 350 words.
• Guided Response Where do you begin when doing
  this type of research? Challenge your peers to
  think through how they would know if the capital
  investment demonstrates a positive financial
  outcome, and what other benefits may occur. What
  is a reasonable life cycle for various items in a
  health care organization? Respond to at least two
  of your classmates posts.

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• MHA 612 Week 6 Discussion 2 Improving Working
  Capital
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• Improving Working Capital. Prior to completing
  this discussion, read Chapters 19, 21, 22, 23 in
  your course text. For your initial post, answer
  the following questions
• What is working capital, and how would you
  calculate it?
• How can the healthcare organization improve
  their working capital?

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• MHA 612 Week 6 Final Paper
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• Final Paper. Utilizing the concepts learned
  throughout the course, write a Final Paper on one
  of the following scenarios
• Option One You are a consultant with 10 years
  experience in the health care insurance industry.
  A group of 20 doctors is considering forming a
  new medical group. The group has asked you to
  prepare a report on whether it should build a
  facility within 30 miles of the downtown center
  of a city with a population of 500,000 for 100
  million dollars. Prepare a report for the
  management team of the doctors group on your
  proposed 100 million expenditure plan. In your
  report, reflect on the key course objectives as
  well as the financial, legal, and alternative
  health care models. In addition, reinforce your
  knowledge of strategic planning and capital
  budgeting by using an electronic spreadsheet to
  display the financials.

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