| Lecture: Whither the U.S. Healthcare System | These are the slides from Monday's lecture. | Download |
| What Does an MRI Cost? | This is an article published in the November 2015 issue of Healthcare Financial Management. It demonstrates how activity-based costing can be used to determine the cost of an MRI, and, by extension, the cost of other procedures in a hospital.
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| Copy Center Answers | The attached file contains the answers to the Copy Center case study. | Download |
| Penn State Case Analysis | These are some of the slides from today's class on Penn State. | Download |
| Lean Operations Lecture | These are the slides from Janelle's lecture on Lean Six Sigma. | Download |
| Responsibility Charting | This is a document that Marty referred to today about responsibility charting. It is very short. | Download |
| Seven Levels of Delegation | These are the slides Janelle presented on Thursday. | Download |
| Lecture Slides from Priority Health System | These are for today's lecture. The rest come tomorrow. | Download |
| Transformation Lecture | These are the slides from Marty's lecture on Saturday about transformation and leadership. | Download |
| So State Lecture Slides | These are the slides on the Southern State case study. | Download |
| Depreciation | This is a Note on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. It discusses depreciation, but first creates the context in which depreciation can best be understood.
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| Surpluses in Nonprofit Organizations | This note describes the rationale for having a surplus (equivalent of profit) in a nonprofit organization. It provides guidance on how to calculate the appropriate size of the surplus.
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| Critique of IOM Report on GME | This is a critique of the summer 2014 report prepared by the Institute ofMedicine on the subject of Graduate Medical Education. It points outseveral flaws in the report's analysis and recommendations, and suggeststhat Medicare and Medicaid support for GME may no longerbe appropriate. | Download |
| Charging for ED Visits |
This article, published in the October 2017 issue of Healthcare Financial Management, discusses a potential new approach to charging for ED visits. It argues that an ED's standby (fixed) costs should be charged separately from the treatment (step and variable) costs, much as is done with public utility charges.
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