Health Care Finance: Basic Tools For Nonfinancial Managers, Fifth Edition Judith J. Baker, R. W. Baker, and Neil R. Dworkin Assignment Exercise 13-2 a golden opportunity to . To gain ammunition for the change, the CFO is preparing to conduct a survey. The sui- ill obtain a variety of suggestions for potential changes in alloca- tion methods for the new operating budget report formats. You have been selected as one of the employees who will be surveyed. Required You may choose your role for this assignment, as follows: Refer to the "MHS Executive-Level Organization Chart" (appearing as Figure 332 in the MHS Case Study). (1) Either (a) choose any type of patient service that would be under the direction of the Senior Vice President of Service Delivery Operations or (b) choose any other function shown on the organization chart. (Your function could be a whole department or a division or unit of that department. For example, you might choose Community Outreach or Human Resources Operations or the Emergency department, etc.) (2) Make up your own orga- nization chart for other employee levels within the function you have chosen. (3) Now make up another chart that indicates the operating budget costs you think would be mostly identifiable for the department or unit or division you have chosen and what other operating budget costs you think would be mostly allocated to it. (You may use Figure 163 as a rough guide, but do not let it limit your imagination. Model the detail on your identifiable versus allocated costs chart after a real department if you so choose.) Use MHS hospital statistics appearing in Exhibit 338 of the MHS Case Study as a basis for allocation if these statistics are helpful. If they are not, make a note of what other statistics you would like to have. (Note: As an alternative approach, you may choose a function from the MHS Nursing Prac- tice and Administration Organization Chart appearing in Figure 33-1 of the MHS Case Study instead of choosing from the Executive-Level Organization Chart.) Assignment Exercise 164: Identified Versus Allocated Costs in Budgeting Review Figure 163 and the accompanying text. Metropolis Health System is preparing for a significant upgrade in both hardware and soft- ware for its information systems. As part of the project, the Chief of Information Operations (CIO) has indicated that the Information Systems (IS) department can change the format of the MHS operating budgets and related reports before the operating budget is constructed for the coming fiscal year. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has long wanted to modify what costs are identified and what costs are allocated (along with the method of allocation). This is Health Care Finance: Basic Tools For Nonfinancial Managers, Fifth Edition Judith J. Baker, R. W. Baker, and Neil R. Dworkin Assignment Exercise 13-2 a golden opportunity to . To gain ammunition for the change, the CFO is preparing to conduct a survey. The sui- ill obtain a variety of suggestions for potential changes in alloca- tion methods for the new operating budget report formats. You have been selected as one of the employees who will be surveyed. Required You may choose your role for this assignment, as follows: Refer to the "MHS Executive-Level Organization Chart" (appearing as Figure 332 in the MHS Case Study). (1) Either (a) choose any type of patient service that would be under the direction of the Senior Vice President of Service Delivery Operations or (b) choose any other function shown on the organization chart. (Your function could be a whole department or a division or unit of that department. For example, you might choose Community Outreach or Human Resources Operations or the Emergency department, etc.) (2) Make up your own orga- nization chart for other employee levels within the function you have chosen. (3) Now make up another chart that indicates the operating budget costs you think would be mostly identifiable for the department or unit or division you have chosen and what other operating budget costs you think would be mostly allocated to it. (You may use Figure 163 as a rough guide, but do not let it limit your imagination. Model the detail on your identifiable versus allocated costs chart after a real department if you so choose.) Use MHS hospital statistics appearing in Exhibit 338 of the MHS Case Study as a basis for allocation if these statistics are helpful. If they are not, make a note of what other statistics you would like to have. (Note: As an alternative approach, you may choose a function from the MHS Nursing Prac- tice and Administration Organization Chart appearing in Figure 33-1 of the MHS Case Study instead of choosing from the Executive-Level Organization Chart.) Assignment Exercise 164: Identified Versus Allocated Costs in Budgeting Review Figure 163 and the accompanying text. Metropolis Health System is preparing for a significant upgrade in both hardware and soft- ware for its information systems. As part of the project, the Chief of Information Operations (CIO) has indicated that the Information Systems (IS) department can change the format of the MHS operating budgets and related reports before the operating budget is constructed for the coming fiscal year. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has long wanted to modify what costs are identified and what costs are allocated (along with the method of allocation). This is