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Unit 6: Assignment - Hospital and Insurance

The Hospital and Insurance assignment is worth a total of 100 points and is due at the end of Unit 6.

To complete this assignment you will go to the Files tab and download the following document:

Hospital and Insurance Assignment Deposition.pdf 

This document is a deposition taken form the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a hospital.  You will use this document to answer the following questions which you will submit to me by the end of week. 

Questions:

1.      Insurance companies often have an agreement or contract with a hospital to pay a certain amount for a given service.  Do hospitals take a loss on those agreements?

2.      Here the hospital accepted about $6,221 to satisfy a $33,500 bill.  Does that seem unusual to you?

3.      If an uninsured patient had a $33,500 bill how much will the hospital pursue?

4.      What percentage of this hospital’s patients pay full charges?

5.      Why do commercial pay carriers pay a greater percentage of the bill?

6.      What is measuring profitability in the industry based on?

7.      What is a “charge master”?

8.      Is a discount given to those who are uninsured?  If so how much?

9.      Does the hospital have an obligation to offer a discount to the uninsured?   Why not?

10. Does it surprise you that the hospital did not want this deposition to become public?  Why or why not?