For this assignment, you will interview a financial manager in a health care organization, do some research on regulatory challenges, and write a paper based on your findings. The paper should be in APA format and should include a title and Reference page. Please note that this assignment does not pertain to the health care business that you are creating for this class. Locate someone who works in the health care industry who has financial or regulatory responsibilities. You might choose to interview any of the following types of people:

1. A physician who is a department head and manages a budget

2. A charge nurse who has budgetary responsibilities

3. A compliance officer who has responsibilities related to regulatory compliance

4. An office manager at a dental practice

5. An office manager at a small, mid-size or large medical group practice

6. A manager who oversees billing and/or coding functions

7. A nursing home administrator

8. An employee of a health insurance company who has financial or regulatory responsibilities

Conduct the interview in person or over the phone. Ask the interviewee the following questions:

1. Please explain your role and responsibilities within the organization.

2. What are the two greatest financial challenges that your organization is facing today OR what are the two greatest regulatory challenges that your organization is facing today? 3. What is the organization doing to address these challenges?

After the interview, write a two- to three-page paper detailing your interviewees responses to the questions. Please follow this outline when writing your paper:

1. Introduction Briefly introduce the person you interviewed. Provide the interviewees name, title, the name of the organization and a brief description of the persons job responsibilities.

2. Body (interviewees responses) In a couple of paragraphs, write up the interviewees responses to the questions you asked.

3. Body (external research) Locate a couple of articles in the scholarly literature which talks about these two challenges faced by other organizations. Read what those organizations are doing to address these concerns. Write a couple of paragraphs on how these other institutions are handling the same problems that were mentioned by your interviewee.

4. Conclusion Summarize what the interviewees organization is doing to address these financial or regulatory challenges in relation to the outside organization you researched and provide your opinion as to whether you believe your interviewees organization is handling these challenges appropriately. Is here anything else that you believe they should be doing, and if so, what would that be?

NOTE: After the interview, please be sure to send a handwritten thank you note or an e-mail thank you message to the interviewee thanking them for their time and information. If the interviewee requests anonymity and/or confidentiality, assure them that this will be maintained.