HMGT300 AssignmentUSHCS Perspectives: Stakeholder
Select and investigate a stakeholder
organization from the list below. Post
your selection in the Assignment #1 Discussion section so that your fellow
students are aware of your choice. Only one student per Stakeholder Organization!
In this assignment students will gain
expertise in identifying and analyzing the role of stakeholders in the U.S.
Health Care Sector, examining the health care sector from the perspective of
stakeholders, and examining the leadership and management of a stakeholder
organization.
This assignment calls for a 3-5 page report
(not including title page or reference page).
The student should address the following:
Name
and provide a brief overview of the stakeholder organization. Identify and
describe the key health care issue the stakeholder is influencing, who is being
represented by the stakeholder, the desired impact of the stakeholder on the
issue and what the stakeholder’s members or constituents stand to gain if the
desired outcome is achieved.
Identify and explain the stakeholder organization
perspective: Payer (insurers, government payers, and employers); Provider
(entities and individuals providing services in the health care system);
Patient (consumers); or Producer (a product developer) could also be examined
in this assignment.
Identify an organization that the stakeholder
partners with OR an organization that opposes the stakeholder and describe
their perspective on the same issue.
Identify the most senior leader of the
organization. Describe his or her educational and positional background.
Identify the duties and responsibilities of this leadership position and why
this position is important to the stakeholder organization and healthcare as a
whole. Describe the knowledge and skills this position requires, list some of
the other the stakeholders this individual would work with and describe the
nature of the stakeholder relationships.
Describe the impact a person in this career might have in improving the
health care system.
As is the case with all academic papers, a
well-organized paper will have a clear introduction to the topic, a body, and a
conclusion or summary paragraph. In addition, a well-written paper will have
minimal grammar, spelling, or sentence structure mistakes and it will fully
conform to all APA formatting standards.
Select an organization to investigate from
the list below:
• Robert W. Johnson Foundation www.rwf.org
• Health Care Management Foundation
www.hcmf.org
• National Association for Health Care
Quality www.nahq.org
• Kaiser Family Foundation (Health Reform
Source) http://healthreform.kff.org/
• Institute of Medicine www.iom.edu
• American Association of Healthcare
Administrative Management www.aaham.org/
• Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology
• American Medical Association www.ama.org
• National Association of Dental Laboratories
NADL www.nadl.org/
• Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
www.fda.gov
• Pharmaceutical Researchers and
Manufacturers of America (PHARMA) www.phrma.org/
• The Brookings Institution- health
http://www.brookings.edu/research/topics/health
• National Mental Health Association
www.thenationalcouncil.org/
• The American Association of Physician
Specialists www.aapsus.org/
• Medical Device innovation, Safety &
Security Consortium (www.mdiss.org
• AARP-Health www.aarp.org
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(select a topic)
• Public Health Department (state or local
level)
• Children’s Health Insurance Program (state)
• National Business Coalition on Health
• American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)
www.aapa.org/
• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
(www.pcpcc.net)
• America’s Health Insurance Plans
www.ahip.org
• National Conference of State Legislators
(choose issue)
• Healthcare.gov (choose Medicaid or
Medicare)
• National Association of Healthcare Access
Management www.naham.org/
• American Health Information Management
Association www.ahima.org/
• Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Health
Care www.nonprofithealthcare.org
•Health Care Administrators Association
www.hcaa.org/
• Pharmacy Quality Alliance www.pqa.org
• Special interest group on Behavior health
www.pcpcc.net/behavioral-health
• Population Health Alliance
http://www.populationhealthalliance.org
• National Coalition on Care Coordination
• National Association of Area Agencies on
Aging http://www.n4a.org/
• The Alzheimer’s Association
http://www.alz.org/about_us_about_us_.asp
• Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy
Program https://www.aging.ca.gov/hicap/
• National Health Care for the Homeless
http://www.nhchc.org/
• Immunization Action Coalition
http://www.immunize.org/hcw/
• National Products Association
http://www.npainfo.org/
• Healthy Americans: Wellness and Prevention
in Health Reform http://healthyamericans.org/pages/?id=271
• Corporate Health & Wellness Association
http://www.healthandwellnessassociation.com/
• US Food & Drug Administration- FDA
Adverse Event Reporting Systems http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/default.htm
• Mental Health Association of America
http://www.nmha.org/
• Mobile Health Interlinkhttp://www.healthinterlink.com/about.html
HMGT300Assignment # 2 Diagram The
Health Care System: Linkages & Alliances
Organizations operating in the U.S. Health
Care Sector (USHCS) are a part of a larger system of services. Identify a health care delivery organization,
note how that organization is linked to other health care organizations in the
delivery system. Every organization has
a source of referral and a place they release their patients.
For this assignment, you will explore
linkages and alliances. To this end,
your paper should include:
A Title page
A 2-3 page (double spaced) description of the
organization;
graphical representation of the linkages
between the organization and other organizations/stakeholders. If you do a
Google image search for organizational linkages, you will see plenty of
examples of how they might look. You are not required to use a specific type of
graphical representation; the key is to be able to understand the relationships
between organizations by looking at your linkage graphic;
A properly formatted reference page.
As is the case with all academic papers, a
well-organized paper will have a clear introduction to the topic, a body, and a
conclusion or summary paragraph. In addition, a well-written paper will have
minimal grammar, spelling, or sentence structure mistakes and it will fully
conform to all .
HMGT300Assignment #4Final Project–AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER
CASE STUDY
In the final project, students will apply the
knowledge gained in this course to a case example.
Each student will select one of the scenarios
below and develop a 10-12 slide PowerPoint presentation to discuss the current
status of the organization, provide an overview of the organization, and make
recommendations on how to manage the selected problem. You must include one or
more slides that address the degree to which the Affordable Care Act might
impact these services. Use APA formatting references and your reference slides.
For this presentation, your title slide does not have to be in APA format.
Info on ASC’s here:
http://www.ascassociation.org/
SCENARIO OPTIONS. Pick one of the scenarios
below. Your role is the manager in charge of an ambulatory surgery center
(ASC). Restate the problem you are addressing. Make some logical assumptions.
Make brief recommendations as to a reasonable solution to the problem in the
scenario.
POINT OF CLARIFICATION: You will use an established independent ASC
for either of the four scenarios listed below.
Your presentation should be drafted as the administrator of the surgery
center working to address one of the four scenarios. In your response, please be sure to address
all components of the scenario.
1)
One of the greatest challenges facing ASCs is maintaining and increasing
volume. With all the external pressures, i.e. physicians pressured to become
employees, mergers, decreasing payments from insurers, etc. – ASCs are
challenged to keep physicians motivated to increase the number of cases and
keep patients satisfied. What are some strategies you would use to increase
referrals to your ASC while maintaining high patient satisfaction scores?
2)
Another challenge facing ambulatory surgery centers is the recruitment
of new physicians. Following a national trend, many local hospitals and health
systems are purchasing physician practices, which could eventually lead to
doctors referring surgical cases to a hospital’s same day surgery department.
Assuming there is ample opportunity to increase surgical volume, how do you
intend to recruit physicians to practice via your ASC? What are some
strategies/offerings you could employ?
3)
The ASC you are currently managing is experiencing out of network
challenges. Additionally, the proposed reimbursement rates from payers do not
match Medicare rates for your market. Most of your ASC contracts are based on
the Medicare fee schedule and because many of your surgeries are not on that
schedule, you have to negotiate a fee schedule on a case-by-case basis. What
strategies could you employ as you work with payors to contract for reasonable
rates that could save you both money in the short term?
4)
In this changing environment, you are required to do more with less.
Reimbursement rates are declining; supply and implant costs, taxes, utilities,
rent, salaries and benefits and other operating costs are increasing and there
are more regulatory requirements i.e., increased standards for accreditation
(Joint Commission’s additional requirements as an example), ICD-10, adoption of
an EHR, etc. Additionally, your staff is wearing multiple hats; many working to
register, bill, code, schedule and assist with back house operations. What
strategies and tools can you implement to increase productivity, reallocate
resources and boost employee morale?
