HCS405 Week-3 Health Care Financial Terms Worksheet

Week Three Health Care Financial Terms Worksheet

 

Understanding health care financial terms is a prerequisite for both academic and professional success. This assignment is intended to ensure you understand some of the basic terms used in this course.

 

Complete the worksheet below according to the following guidelines:

 

·         In the space provided, write each term's definition as used in health care management. You must define the term in your own words.

·         In the space provided after each term's definition, summarize a health care management scenario in that illustrates the importance of the skill, concept, procedure, or tool that the term refers in 125 to 150 words. In the scenario, you may wish to consider the following:

 

o    Why is the skill, concept, procedure, or tool necessary for accurate record keeping, operational efficiency, excellent patient services, employee management, regulatory compliance, reducing costs, forecasting, and so forth?

o    What successes are enabled by an adequate understanding or appropriate application of the skill, concept, procedure, or tool?

o    What risks or failures are associated with an inadequate understanding or inappropriate application of the skill, concept, procedure, or tool?

 

Save the completed worksheet as a Microsoft® Word® document with your name in the file name.

Submit the file to your instructor.

 

 

Worksheet

 

Submitted By:

 

Yvette Taylor

 

Term

Definition

Scenario

Capital Expenditure Budget

 

 

Direct cost

 

 

Flexible budget

 

 

Operating budget

 

 

Responsibility center

 

 

 





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