What to Submit To complete this project, you must submit the following: Strategic Planning Education Presentation Your submission should be a 15- to 18-slide PowerPoint

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IHP 630 Project Guidelines and Rubric

Competencies

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:

Use �nancial management and teamwork principles to guide and improve strategic planning and reimbursement

Recommend models and methods to inform and improve revenue-cycle processes

Analyze federal, state, and third-party payer regulations and reporting guidelines for reimbursement compliance

Scenario

You are a healthcare consultant hired by a large healthcare organization. The organization has some new members on the board of directors who have requested an orientation on the

organization’s strategic planning, revenue-cycle processes, and reimbursement-compliance processes. As a consultant, you have been asked to educate the new board members at their next

retreat on these areas, highlighting internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as external opportunities and barriers that might impact �nancial performance and reimbursement.

Directions

Create a PowerPoint presentation with a separate speaker notes document for educating the board of directors on strategic planning, revenue-cycle processes, and reimbursement

compliance processes. In your speaker notes, be sure to indicate which notes belong with each slide.

If you need writing support, access the Online Writing Center through the Academic Support module of your course.

Speci�cally, you must address the following:

1. Introduction: Introduce your presentation, including a concise, high-level overview of what topics and information will be covered in the presentation.

2. Strategic Planning: Determine how overall strategic planning can potentially be improved by applying �nancial management and teamwork principles within your organization.

A. Financial Management Principles: Summarize how other healthcare organizations have successfully used �nancial management principles to inform and improve their overall

strategic planning.

B. Collaborative Teamwork Integration: Describe from the lens of a healthcare administrator how collaborative teamwork principles can be integrated into your healthcare

organization, particularly principles related to revenue cycle processes.

3. Staf�ng Impact: Evaluate how staf�ng across the department impacts revenue cycle outcomes and team performance.

4. Healthcare Reimbursement: Analyze the importance of improving healthcare reimbursement processes for the organization and various stakeholders.

A. Improvement Processes: Determine which principles and processes your healthcare organization can either implement or update within their policies, explaining how these

implementations or updates will improve overall reimbursements for various stakeholders.

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B. Payer Model Advantages and Disadvantages: Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of both governmental and nongovernmental payer models, as well as their impact on

various stakeholders.

C. Managed Care Plan Advantages and Disadvantages: Analyze from the lens of a healthcare administrator the advantages and disadvantages of a managed care plan and their impact

on various stakeholders.

5. Revenue-Cycle Process: Analyze the importance of improving revenue-cycle processes for the organization and various stakeholders.

A. Models and Methods: Evaluate which model(s) and method(s) you believe will positively impact revenue-cycle processes within your healthcare organization.

B. Work�ow Assessment Findings: Explain the effectiveness of current internal work�ows for your healthcare organization based on your completed assessment, as well as how

these work�ows can be adjusted to further enhance the organization’s cash �ow and overall �nancial strength.

6. Reimbursement Compliance: Analyze the overall impact of current federal, state, and third-party payer regulations and reporting guidelines on reimbursement compliance for the

organization.

A. Regulations: Analyze at least one federal, one state, and one third-party payer regulation that could affect your healthcare organization, providing examples of both positive and

negative impacts on various stakeholders for each regulation you identify.

B. Reporting Requirements: Analyze at least one federal, one state, and one third-party payer reporting requirement that could affect your healthcare organization, providing

examples of both positive and negative impacts on various stakeholders for each reporting requirement you identify.

C. Technology and System Impacts: Evaluate how required technology and system impacts for reporting guidelines and regulatory compliance affect your healthcare organization,

both positively and negatively.

7. Recommendations: Recommend changes your healthcare organization can make to maximize reimbursement opportunities for patients, staff, and various stakeholders.

Your presentation should be evidence based. Your citations should be from your independent search for evidence (not from the scenario, textbook, or module resources) of credible sources

and be current within the last �ve years. You are required to cite a minimum of �ve sources overall. Refer to the IHP 630 Library Guide located in the Start Here section of the course for

additional support.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

Strategic Planning Education Presentation

Your submission should be a 15- to 18-slide PowerPoint presentation (in addition to title and reference slides). Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Strategic Planning Education Presentation Speaker Notes

Your submission should be a 12- to 14-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

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Project Rubric

Criteria Exemplary (100%) Pro�cient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Introduction Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Introduces the presentation

and includes a concise, high-

level overview of what topics

and information will be covered

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

Strategic Planning Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Determines how overall

strategic planning can

potentially be improved by

applying �nancial management

and teamwork principles within

the organization

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 5

Strategic Planning: Financial

Management Principles

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Summarizes how other

healthcare organizations have

successfully used �nancial

management principles to

inform and improve their

overall strategic planning

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

Strategic Planning:

Collaborative Teamwork

Integration

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Describes from the lens of a

healthcare administrator how

collaborative teamwork

principles can be integrated

into the healthcare

organization, particularly

principles related to revenue-

cycle processes

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

Staf�ng Impact Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Evaluates how staf�ng across

the department impacts

revenue cycle outcomes and

team performance

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

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Criteria Exemplary (100%) Pro�cient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Healthcare Reimbursement Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Analyzes the importance of

improving healthcare

reimbursement processes for

the organization and various

stakeholders

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 5

Healthcare Reimbursement:

Improvement Processes

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Determines which principles

and processes the healthcare

organization can either

implement or update within its

policies, explaining how these

implementations or updates

will improve overall

reimbursements for various

stakeholders

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

Healthcare Reimbursement:

Payer Model Advantages and

Disadvantages

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Analyzes the advantages and

disadvantages of both

governmental and

nongovernmental payer

models, as well as their impact

on various stakeholders

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 5

Healthcare Reimbursement:

Managed Care Plan

Advantages and

Disadvantages

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Analyzes from the lens of a

healthcare administrator the

advantages and disadvantages

of a managed care plan and its

impact on various stakeholders

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 5

Revenue Cycle Process Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Analyzes the importance of

improving revenue-cycle

processes for the organization

and various stakeholders

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 5

Revenue Cycle Process:

Models and Methods

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Evaluates which model(s) and

method(s) are believed to

positively impact revenue cycle

processes within the healthcare

organization

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

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Criteria Exemplary (100%) Pro�cient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Revenue Cycle Process:

Work�ow Assessment

Findings

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Explains the effectiveness of

current internal work�ows for

the healthcare organization

based on the assessment you

completed, as well as how these

work�ows can be adjusted to

further enhance cash �ow and

overall �nancial strength for

the organization

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

Reimbursement Compliance Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Analyzes the overall impact of

current federal, state, and

third-party payer regulations

and reporting guidelines on

reimbursement compliance for

the organization

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 5

Reimbursement Compliance:

Regulations

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Analyzes at least one federal,

one state, and one third-party

payer regulation that could

affect the healthcare

organization, providing

examples of both positive and

negative impacts on various

stakeholders for each

regulation or reporting

requirement identi�ed

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

Reimbursement Compliance:

Reporting Requirements

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Analyzes at least one federal,

one state, and one third-party

payer reporting requirement

that could affect the healthcare

organization, providing

examples of both positive and

negative impacts on various

stakeholders for each

regulation or reporting

requirement identi�ed

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

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Criteria Exemplary (100%) Pro�cient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Reimbursement Compliance:

Technology and System

Impacts

Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Evaluates how required

technology and system impacts

for reporting guidelines and

regulatory compliance affect

the healthcare organization,

both positively and negatively

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 4

Recommendations Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner, using

industry-speci�c language

Recommends changes the

healthcare organization can

make to maximize

reimbursement opportunities

for patients, staff, and various

stakeholders

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors or

omissions

Does not attempt criterion 5

Articulation of Response Exceeds pro�ciency in an

exceptionally clear and

insightful manner

Clearly conveys meaning with

well-designed presentation

slides, correct grammar,

sentence structure, and

spelling, demonstrating an

understanding of audience and

purpose

Shows progress toward

pro�ciency, but with errors in

presentation slide design,

grammar, sentence structure,

and spelling, negatively

impacting readability

Submission has critical errors in

presentation slide design,

grammar, sentence structure,

and spelling, preventing

understanding of ideas

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Scholarly and Professional

Sources

Incorporates more than �ve

scholarly and professional,

current (within the last �ve

years) sources, or use of

sources is exceptionally

insightful

Incorporates �ve scholarly and

professional, current (within

the last �ve years) sources that

support claims

Incorporates fewer than �ve

scholarly and professional,

current (within the last �ve

years) sources, or not all

sources support claims

Does not incorporate sources 8

APA Style Formats in-text citations and

reference list according to APA

style with no errors

Formats in-text citations and

reference list according to APA

style with fewer than �ve

errors

Formats in-text citations and

reference list according to APA

style with �ve or more errors

Does not format in-text

citations and reference list

according to APA style

8

Total: 100%