Health Services Finance

Read the possible topic choices. Choose your term paper topic and upload it via the Week 3 Course Project Dropbox. This will be due along with your Course Project Outline (both items in the same document). Your topic choice will be reviewed, and you will receive feedback and/or approval of your topic choice. You do not have to select one of the listed topics. If there is a labor relations topic that you would like to write about that is not listed, let the instructor know. The appropriateness of the topic will be evaluated against which TCO your paper is intended to address.

Once you begin your research, you will need to create an outline showing how your paper will be presented. Submit your outline in the Week 3 Course Project Dropbox.

A summary of the topic you have chosen for the Course Project and its importance in the healthcare industry is due this week. Submit your outline through the Dropbox. Please be sure to include the course number and your name in the title of the document. The outline should be about 1–2 pages in length and include the following:

• Identify the topic you will be writing about.
• Define the problem that you will be trying to suggest a solution for.
• Identify possible solutions.
• Describe the sources you will be using to conduct your research and analysis.

The greatest value in any course comes from applying the concepts, theories, and principles explored during class to real-life situations and issues. This term project gives you an opportunity to select an aspect of healthcare with which you are familiar, and identify an issue in which there is an element that is not meeting expectations. Then, drawing on the concepts and principles from readings, exercises, current events, and class discussions, write a term paper of 8 to 10 pages in which you:

• introduce the issue;
• define the problem;
• analyze the problem;
• evaluate possible solutions;
• develop an implementation plan; and
• justify why and how your solution will solve the identified problem.

Your paper must include, but is not limited to, the following sections.

• BACKGROUND: Describe the problem, organization, or situation you selected, identify the specific issues of interest or controversy, and present background and facts of the problem, organization, or situation that will enable the reader to clearly understand the issue. For example, most health insurance in the United States is tied to employment. Because of employers without benefits and unemployment, there are approximately 47 million uninsured.
• DEFINE THE PROBLEM: Identify and clearly state the problem or management issue in which an element of the identified problem or situation is not meeting expectations. Remember that what appears to be the problem may actually be just a symptom of a bigger problem. Dig deep to be sure you’ve identified the real problems. If there appears to be more than one problem or issue, decide if they are separate or related issues. State the problem in the form of a question. For example, if a work group is not performing sufficiently, an effective problem statement might be, “How can the staff shortage be improved,” rather than simply, “Short staff problems.” For the issue of uninsured people, this could be, “How can universal coverage be initiated?”
• SUGGESTION: Begin your literature survey by accessing Keller’s online library located in Student Resources under Course Home.
• PROBLEM ANALYSIS: This section should provide a detailed analysis of the causes of the problem(s) or issue(s) you identified in Section II. A major objective is to clearly illustrate how you are using the healthcare course concepts, as well as your professional experiences and the results of your research, to better understand the causes of the problem(s) or issue(s). Show that you are applying course material! Approach the topic from a financial angle, because this is a finance course. (Note: Use subheadings to identify each factor you address.)
• POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: Explore solutions that could be appropriate ways to solve the identified problem or issue, and document what you feel is the best alternative. Be sure that these solutions are logical based on your analysis and that they each would effectively treat the problem, not the symptoms. Also, discuss the anticipated outcomes (both positive and negative) of implementing each of the possible solutions you identified. Again, to use universal coverage as an example, how would it be funded? Just saying we need universal coverage may be an accurate statement, but programs need money. What taxes would you raise or what services would you cut to provide the funding? How much is it going to cost, and how will it affect hospitals and other providers?

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