Homework: Healthcare Financial Management and Decision Making
Topic: Risk Analysis and Capital Structuring
Length: 5 to 6 pages of content excluding Information and Reference Pages
NOTE: Applicable spreadsheets should be attached to support your decisions. The homework should include at least 5 relevant peer-reviewed academic or professional references published within the past 5 years.
The board of directors of your for-profit hospital has been approached by a nonprofit hospital to consider a joint venture to take over their business resulting in a larger for-profit medical center status. You have been asked to construct a financial risk analysis for this conversion. Using course materials, including your text and the Internet, and principles of financial risk analysis, evaluate the considerations that a nonprofit hospital has in considering the conversion to a for-profit hospital.
Consider the following options in support of your decision:
• Projected profit and loss statements
• Retention of estimates
• Selected cost of capital
• Other spreadsheets and calculations you feel are needed to support your decision
Consider the following topics in your discussion:
I. Key characteristics of nonprofit hospitals that differ from for-profit hospitals
i. Include the characteristics required to maintain a nonprofit status.
II. The need for shifts in corporate structure required for survival in this environment, including safety net requirements and responsibilities
III. Potential reasons driving both organizations and considerations between an outright merger verses a corporate alliance or joint venture.
IV. Assessment of the payer mix, financial benchmarks of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals
i. Consider uncompensated care burdens within the for-profit model
V. Proffer a decision based on your analysis of whether the organization should convert, create a joint venture, or decline the offer with rationale and justification.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.