Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.

Key Assignment: Phase 4 Individual Project

As the largest third-party payer in the United States, CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has a broad, often unspoken influence over many aspects of a health care organization’s decisions and daily activities. In addition, there are external forces that affect the operations of health care organizations such as accreditors, managed care organizations, and so on.

• Using the library to support your thoughts, write a memo of 400–600 words to the organization’s leaders explaining CMS’s influence on the organization.
  • Give examples. Examples should include how a decision to pick an electronic medical record (EMR) for use in the facility and how much to charge for a service might be influenced by CMS.
• Identify at least 1 external force and how you believe it influences decisions at health care facilities.
• How do the government agencies and external forces affect the financial operations of the organization?

Remember that this work is to be your own thoughts based on what you know and have learned. You should create a submission that demonstrates your thought and understanding, lightly supported by at least 1 resource from the library. As indicated in the grading rubric (under the Student Expectations button), your ability to think about the material and synthesize the concepts and articulate current or future processes and issues is what is to be graded.