Interpret Financial Implications of Managed Care

Watch video for additional help: Money-Driven Medicine directed by Andrew Fredericks, fl. 1989-2015; produced by Alex Gibney, 1953-, British Broadcasting Corporation (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2009), 1 hour 22 mins

Week 4 – Assignment: Interpret Financial Implications of Managed Care

Write a paper that addresses the following:

Determine which is more important in managed care, the capital and organizational ability of the hospital/managed care organization, or the physician’s ability to effectively manage patient care from a hospital’s profitability perspective.

Explain your choice, using research to defend your perspectives. Provide examples where applicable to support your findings.

Support your paper with a minimum of three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

Week 4

o Assignment Title: Interpret Financial Implications of Managed Care

Grading Rubric

Criteria

Content (7 points) Points

1 Compare the relative importance of capital in the healthcare organization with the

physician management of patient care in the generation of revenue.

2

2 Described examples of capital and patient care in the healthcare organization. 2

3 Ascertained the importance of one over the other through research of the literature. 3

Organization (3 points)

1 Included a minimum of three scholarly references, with appropriate APA formatting

applied to citations and paraphrasing. Paper is 5-7 pages long not including the title

and reference pages.

3

Total 10