Overview

This short paper assignment is an opportunity to show what you have learned in your module reading about the significance of compliance, coding, and reimbursement.

Directions

Craft a short paper responding to the following questions. Incorporate at least two scholarly resources, as well as healthcare sector-specific information, into your responses. Be sure to articulate your ideas in your own words and include attribution for your research in APA format.

Specifically, you must address the following:

1. Reimbursement Issues: Describe the healthcare reimbursement issues you learned about in this module. Specifically, how do medical billing and coding regulations affect reimbursement in a healthcare organization?
2. Revenue Cycle Analysis: Analyze the revenue cycle for a healthcare organization. In other words, what are the various tasks that different healthcare departments do to drive the reimbursement process?

What to Submit

Submit your short paper as a 2- to 4-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.