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Interview a financial manager in a health care organization, do some research on regulatory challenges, and write a paper based on your findings. The paper should be in APA format and should include a title and Reference page. Please note that this assignment does not pertain to the health care business that you are creating for this class.
Locate someone who works in the health care industry who has financial or regulatory responsibilities. You might choose to interview any of the following types of people:
A physician who is a department head and manages a budget
A charge nurse who has budgetary responsibilities
A compliance officer who has responsibilities related to regulatory compliance
An office manager at a dental practice
An office manager at a small, mid-size or large medical group practice
A manager who oversees billing and/or coding functions
A nursing home administrator
An employee of a health insurance company who has financial or regulatory responsibilities
Conduct the interview in person or over the phone. Ask the interviewee the following questions:
Please explain your role and responsibilities within the organization.
What are the two greatest financial challenges that your organization is facing today OR what are the two greatest regulatory challenges that your organization is facing today?
What is the organization doing to address these challenges?
After the interview, write a two- to three-page paper detailing your interviewee’s responses to the questions. Please follow this outline when writing your paper:
1. Introduction – Briefly introduce the person you interviewed. Provide the interviewee’s name, title, the name of the organization and a brief description of the person’s job responsibilities.
2. Body (interviewee’s responses) – In a couple of paragraphs, write up the interviewee’s responses to the questions you asked.
3. Body (external research) – Locate a couple of articles in the scholarly literature which talks about these two challenges faced by other organizations. Read what those organizations are doing to address these concerns. Write a couple of paragraphs on how these other institutions are handling the same problems that were mentioned by your interviewee.
4. Conclusion – Summarize what the interviewee’s organization is doing to address these financial or regulatory challenges in relation to the outside organization you researched and provide your opinion as to whether you believe your interviewee’s organization is handling these challenges appropriately. Is here anything else that you believe they should be doing, and if so, what would that be?
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