Description
Unique Aspects of Health Services & Financial Management
There are a number of unique factors relating to the health services sector:
- Services are provided by both not-for-profit (or nonprofit) organizations that can be either governmental or private and for-profit organizations that are private
- The majority of payments made to health care providers for services are not made by the consumers of the services but by some third-party payer (e.g. a commercial insurance company and/or a government program)
How do these unique features affect the financial management in quality and patient safety departments?
Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories (which require supporting citations) in your initial response along with at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article. Keep in mind that these scholarly references can be found in the Saudi Digital Library by conducting an advanced search specific to scholarly references. Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
You are required to reply to at least two peer discussion question post answers to this weekly discussion question and/or your instructor’s response to your posting. These post replies need to be substantial and constructive in nature. They should add to the content of the post and evaluate/analyze that post’s answer. Normal course dialogue doesn’t fulfill these two peer replies but is expected throughout the course. Answering all course questions is also required.
