WO2001033459A1 - Funds flow system for academic health centers - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a system and method for tracking and reporting the flow of funds and more particularly to a system and method for tracking and reporting the flow of funds between participants in an academic health center comprising a school of medicine, a hospital and a faculty clinical practice, thus allowing comparisons between the different participants and departments of participants and comparisons among different academic health centers.
- FIG 1 is a block diagram of an academic health center (AHC) or an academic clinical enterprise having as participants a school of medicine 12, a hospital 14 and a faculty practice plan 16.
- the AHC 10 allows for the advancement of medical knowledge, providing medical care to patients and preparing medical students.
- the AHC 10 allows each participant to perform their given tasks with support from the other participants. For example, since a school of medicine 12 can only provide a limited education to its students, the students must rely on the doctors and hospital 14 to provide real life training.
- each participant has its own accounting system thus each participant treats costs differently.
- the participants still cannot make realistic comparisons because the participants do not typically define transactions and measures in the same manner, nor do they account for hidden costs or income such as service and benefits which they receive for free from another participant.
- a shared accounting system which properly accounts for each transaction, whether it is a cash or non-cash transaction, the participants cannot use meaningful benchmarking procedures to determine how a department within a participant or a participant is operating.
- the problems of the prior art overcome in accordance with one embodiment of the invention by identifying, pricing, and categorizing each transaction between the parties thereby allowing the costs and values of the services between each party to be analyzed and appropriate action can be taken to correct for any imbalance in costs or benefits that a participant receives at the cost of another participant.
- the present invention provides both processes and comparative financial data that enable the participants of an AHC: the hospital, practice plan and school of medicine, which are referred to as the participants in the "triangle," to use common definitions and formats to identify and discuss the real costs and value of the services each participant provides and how services are funded.
- the invention permits all participants start from common ground with common definitions.
- the present invention also provides departmental analyses of sources and uses of funds, i.e., income statements, which allow evaluation of departmental performance in a mission-based format.
- the present invention provides for analyses of the following: academic medical center interdependencies; productivity, efficiency and operating performance across missions; investment of academic center resources; net state and community support; and benchmarking.
- the format logic and definitions have been standardized for all participants, comparison across institutions and departments is possible.
- benchmarking allows one participant in an AHC to determine how that participant compares with other participants in other AHCs, e.g., hospital A verse hospital B and/or hospital C.
- Benchmarking can also be used to compare one department within a participant with another department within the same participant, e.g., pediatrics verse cardiovascular.
- Benchmarking also allows for a department in one participant to be compared with the same department in another participant in another AHC, e.g., pediatrics in hospital A verse pediatrics in hospital B.
- Such comparisons are possible if each party is being compared using the same framework. In other words, for one department to be compared to another department, the departments must categorize their costs in the same manner as well provide the same value for similar tasks.
- the school of medicine 12 needs to identify the transactions between the school of medicine 12 and the hospital 14 and care providers, as well as between the school of medicine 12 and the parent university, state, etc. All sources and uses of funds also need to be identified. Once identified, the sources and funds can be categorized using the same categories for each participant.
- FIGURES Figure 1 is a block diagram of an academic health center.
- Figure 2 is a flow chart of the steps of the present invention.
- Figure 3A is a block diagram for the payment for service definition.
- Figure 3B is a block diagram for the expense reimbursement definition.
- Figure 3C is a block diagram for the support - unreimbursement definition.
- Figure 4 is a block diagram of a financial model/logic for support and purchased services across operating activities.
- Figure 5 is a block diagram of a financial model/logic for support and purchased services between operating activities and university, VPHA, health system or state, county and community.
- Figure 6 is a chart of the transactions occurring in Figures 4 and 5.
- Figure 7 is a table of the internal commerce among the school of medicine, the faculty clinical practice and the hospital.
- Figure 8 is a table of the internal commerce among the school of medicine, the faculty clinical practice, the hospital, and the university, VPHA, health system, and state, county and community.
- Figure 9 is a block diagram of a financial model/logic for support and purchased services across and between operating activities.
- Figure 10A is a chart of the transactions for programs and services illustrated in Figure 9.
- Figure 10B is a chart of the transactions for OVCHS and Strategic Investment Fund as illustrated in Figure 9.
- Figure 10C is a chart of the transactions for public aid and prison population illustrated in Figure 9.
- Figure 10D is a chart of the transactions for research and training illustrated in
- Figure 10E is a chart of the transactions for centrally provided services illustrated in Figure 9.
- Figure 1 1 is a table of the purchased services and support by the hospital.
- Figures 12A-B are tables of the strategic investment fund.
- Figure 13 is a listing of the different reporting departments.
- Figure 14 is a block diagram of a departmental funds flow income statement.
- Figures 15A-B are tables listing the sources of funds for the participants of the AHC.
- Figure 15C is a table listing the uses of funds for the participants of the AHC.
- Figure 16 is an exemplary standard departmental statement.
- Figure 17 is an exemplary customized departmental statement.
- Figures 18A-D are exemplary tables of the clinical department ratios.
- Figures 19A-B are exemplary tables of the key department ratios. DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
- Sources of investment equity relatively common to all participants, include centrally retained indirect cost recovery from research, tuition and fees, taxes on clinical revenues, plant funds, trust fund earnings and internally restricted balances, current fund cash balances, net income and state and local appropriations when available.
- Uses of investment capital include funding of new programs and services, such as centers of excellence, construction projects, faculty additions, and primary care network development. Many other equity transfers occur within AHCs, clearly of a support nature. In addition, support may take the form of unreimbursed expenses incurred by one party for the benefit of another.
- a major benefit of identifying the rationalizing equity transfers and other forms of support is that when continuing investment or support transfers makes no sense, the equity identified is essentially new strategic capital that can be direct to other uses.
- FIG. 2 a block diagram of the method for the present invention is illustrated.
- the method starts with identifying each transactions occurring across AHC participants (school of medicine 12, hospital 14, and faculty clinical practice 16 at step 100. This step also includes identifying transactions between the participants and parent university, government and other relevant entities.
- all sources and uses of funds for that participant's clinical departments are identified.
- all sources and uses of funds for a participant's clinical department are identified at step 102.
- an analyses of the organization's "commerce" across participants and departmental sources and uses of funds statements are generated at step 104. These are done in a manner that the participant deems relevant to understand and explain itself financially internally.
- customized departmental statements are generated at step 106.
- relevant data contained in the customized departmental statements are used to generate standard departmental statements at step 108.
- the departmental statements are used to form the basis of the comparative database and are used to develop the comparative departmental ratios at step 110.
- reports are generated for each participant. In the most preferred embodiment, there are seven reports generated: custom triangle and supporting statements, standard triangle and supporting statements, customized departmental statements, standard department statements, departmental ratios by participants, ratios by department across participants, aggregate department sources and uses per FTE. Referring back to step 102, all transactions between the participants which result in economic interdependencies need to be identified whether cash or non- cash.
- Non-cash transaction that represent a transfer of value include unreimbursed expenses and funds generated and retained. Unreimbursed expenses are expenses incurred on behalf of another operating activity that are requested or needed by that activity but are not charged back or reimbursed. Funds generated retained are funds generated from operating activities that are retained at executive or central levels.
- Cash and non-cash "flow of funds" categories are further combined into two basic categories of support and payment for services.
- the support category consists of support given, unreimbursed expense and funds generated retained.
- the payment for services category consist of purchased services across operating activities, payment for central services and payment for clinical services. Purchased services across operating activities include physician leadership, physician service, physician incentives and non-physician.
- the payment for central services are payments to the university, vice-president of health affairs (VPHA) and health system.
- the payment for clinical services includes payments from government, e.g., state, county and community. Referring to Figure 3A , a block diagram of the payment for service definition from the hospital's perspective is illustrated.
- the hospital For a hospital expense incurred at either the faculty care practice or school of medicine 202, the hospital must decide whether to reimburse the participant for the expense or not.
- the expense is for either a faculty clinical practice or school of medicine core service 206 or not for a faculty clinical practice or school of medicine core service 208. If the core service is needed or required 210, then the service is considered as a purchased service 212. If the core service is not a needed or required, then the service is a purchased service with the fair marker value needing to be determined 214.
- an entity would pay for another entity for core service at the appropriate level to support the buyer's mission operating activities (hospital clinical mission, faculty clinical mission, and school of medicine research and teaching missions).
- FIG. 3B a block diagram of an expense reimbursement from the hospital's perspective is illustrated.
- the hospital For a hospital expense incurred at either the faculty care practice or school of medicine 202, the hospital must decide whether to reimburse the participant for the expense or not.
- the expense For reimbursable expenses, the expense is for either a faculty clinical practice or school of medicine core service 206 or not for a faculty clinical practice or school of medicine core service 208.
- the expense is reimbursed 216.
- a participant would reimburse another entity's expenses that support the buyer's mission operating activities but are not core services for the seller.
- FIG. 3C a block diagram of an unreimbursed expense for support from the hospital's perspective is illustrated.
- the hospital For a hospital expense incurred at either the faculty care practice or school of medicine 202, the hospital must decide whether to reimburse the participant for the expense or not.
- the expense is labeled as support 222if it is need or affected by the hospital 220 and expense is considered a faculty clinical practice or school of medicine expense 224 if it was not needed or affected by the hospital 220.
- expenses incurred on behalf of another operating activity people, space, service, capital
- that are requested or needed by that activity are reimbursed.
- FIG. 4 a financial model/logic for support and purchased services across operating activities is illustrated.
- Each participant provides support categorized as support given A and unreimbursed expenses B to other participants.
- the support given A is broken into two categories: the funds the hospital 14 provides to the school of medicine 12 for investment in programs and services; and the funds faculty clinical practice 16 clinical department provides to the school of medicine 12 clinical department counterpart (transfers and contributions).
- the unreimbursed expenses B is broken into four categories: the expenses the school of medicine 12 provides for the teaching and supervision of residents to the hospital 14 without reimbursement; the expenses the hospital 14 spends employing the physician assistants and nurse practitioners who benefit the faculty clinical practice 16; the expenses the faculty clinical practice 16 provides medical direction to the hospital 14 without reimbursement; and the faculty clinical practice 16 incurs related to research and teaching (e.g., payment of faculty salaries, non-faculty salaries, supplies, etc).
- joint venture support C is provided between the faculty clinical practice 16 and the hospital 14 based on differing levels of reimbursement for patient populations including indigent and Medicaid.
- funds generated retained G which are funds from the school of management to faculty clinical practice 16.
- the funds are the dean's tax net of centrally provided funds.
- the purchased services D across the operating activities include services for physician leadership, physician services, physician incentives and non-physician services.
- the hospital 14 pays the school of medicine 12 for teaching and supervising residents.
- the hospital 14 pays the faculty clinical practice 16 for medical direction, professional service (e.g., emergency room, pathology, etc.) and gainshare and incentive programs with faculty clinical practice 16 departments and physicians 16.
- Support includes support given E, F and K, unreimbursed expenses H and L and funds generated retained.
- Support given E, F, and K include: the state/university 18 providing annual funding to the school of medicine 12 for investment in programs and services; the hospital 14 providing funding to other university areas 18 (e.g., School of Nursing, School of Allied Health Provisions, etc.) for investment in programs and services; and the state 20 and university 18 providing funding to the hospital 14 for investment in programs and services.
- the unreimbursed expenses H includes the university providing central services at a level which exceed funds generated retained from the departments (e.g., tuition and fees retained, indirect cost recovery retained, etc.).
- the unreimbursed expenses L includes expenses incurred by the hospital 14 for provision of indigent care which exceeds reimbursement provided by the state and the expenses incurred by the faculty clinical practice 16 for provisions of indigent care which exceeds reimbursement provided by the state 20.
- the funds generated retained I include the funds the university retains from the funds generated by the department (e.g., tuition and fees retained, indirect coast recovery retained) at a rate which exceeds the value of services provided by the university 18.
- the payment for services include funds generated retained J and indigent care payment for service N.
- the funds generated retained include funds the university retains form the funds generated by the department (e.g., tuition and fees retained, indirect cost recovery retained, etc.) at a rate is less than or equal to the value or services provided by the university 18.
- the indigent care payment for service includes the funding/reimbursement the state provides the hospital 14 for the provision of care to patient populations including indigent and Medicaid and the funding/reimbursement to the faculty clinical practice 16 for the provision of care to patient populations including indigent and Medicaid.
- the exemplary table provides information about the transactions including who is providing who funding (from/to), an index numbering each transaction, an ACT index number, whether the funds are given or are payment for service (S, PS), the description of the transaction, the amount of the transaction, and the source of the funding.
- indexes A 4 , B 4 illustrate the support the hospital 14 gives to the faculty clinical practice 16.
- Index A 4 consists of $1.5 M given for an ASC list.
- Index B 4 consists of $1.5 M gives for hospital based clinics, enterprise-wide marketing, and enterprise-wide contracting.
- Index D 4 depicts the amount ($7.7 M) the hospital 14 pays the faculty clinical practice 16 for services. The services are gain sharing and the emergency room contract of the ASC list.
- Index C depicts the funds ($3.6 M) the faculty clinical practice 16 provides to the hospital 14.
- Index A 2 depicts the support ($1.8 M) the hospital 14 gives the school of medicine 12. The support is given for the ASC list. In turn, index A T depicts the support ($1.5 M) the school of medicine 12 gives the hospital. This funding is for supporting the residency program.
- Index A 5 depicts the support ($49.2 M) the school of medicine 12 gives the faculty clinical practice 16. The support is given for the faculty salaries paid out of the clinical funds and clinical expenses.
- index Ae depicts the support ($47.9 M) the faculty clinical practice 16 gives the school of medicine 12. This funding is for supporting the net income transfer.
- Index B 6 depicts the support ($10.6 M) the faculty clinical practice 16 gives the school of medicine 12. The support is given for paying the faculty salaries for research and teaching from the clinical mission.
- Index G depicts the support ($3.7 M) the faculty clinical practice 16 gives the school of medicine 12. The support is given for paying the dean's tax.
- Index M 2 depicts the support ($73.2 M) the state 20 pays the hospital 14 for services.
- the services are for the net revenue for indigent care and tobacco tax revenue.
- Index L 2 depicts the support ($21.9 M) the hospital 14 gives the state for unreimbursed indigent care and additional losses the hospital 14 incurs due to resetting indigent care.
- Index K 2 depicts the support ($18.5 M) the state 20 pays the hospital 14 for services.
- the services are for the Medi-CAL graduate medical education (GME) funds and clinical teaching support.
- Index J 2 depicts the support ($2.9 M) the hospital 14 pays the university 18 for services.
- the services are for the central services charged.
- Index M 3 depicts the support ($7.9 M) the state 20 gives the faculty clinical practice 16 for cost in excess of reimbursement for payments received for indigent care.
- Index L 3 depicts the support ($3.6 M) the faculty clinical practice 16 gives the state for cost in excess of reimbursement for indigent care and reimbursement gained in resetting indigent care.
- Index J 3 depicts the support ($.6 M) the faculty clinical practice 16 pays the university 18 for services. The services are for the central services charged.
- Index depicts the support ($8.6 M) the school of medicine 12 pays the university for services. The services are for the ICR retained, tuition and fees received and expenses at the university.
- Index Ei depicts the support ($49 M) the university 18 gives the school of medicine 12 for state funds and expenses at the dean.
- a chart of the internal commerce between the operating activities for each type of service is illustrated.
- This chart is created by using the information from the previous charts and tables.
- the rows consists of the purchased services, e.g., physician leadership, physician service, physician incentive, non- physician, and supervision and teaching.
- the columns consist of who provided the services and who received the services, e.g., hospital to school of medicine, hospital to faculty clinical practice, school of medicine to faculty clinical practice, school of medicine to hospital, faculty clinical practice to hospital and faculty clinical practice to school of medicine.
- a summary sheet is illustrated.
- the sheet organizes the information from the chart illustrated in Figure 6. As shown, the transactions between the different operating activities are shown. Similarly, the transactions between the operating activities and the university ⁇ /PHA/Health System and the transactions between operating activities and the government (state/county/community) are illustrated. These transactions are categorized as either support or payment for support.
- the support category is further broken into four categories/columns: given, unreimbursed, funds generated retained > centrally provided, and joint venture. A sum of these four categories is in a total column. At the bottom, the total of each category is tallied for each column is calculated for each operating center, as well as for the university ⁇ /PHA/Health system and government. If the totaled figure is a gain, then the figure is labeled as net support and for losses, the figure is labeled as net services purchased from (sold).
- FIG. 9 a financial model/logic for support and purchased services across and between operating activities is illustrated.
- the cash and non- cash transactions are aggregated into three basic levels: across mission operating activities (school of medicine 12, hospital 14, and faculty clinical practice 16); between mission operating activities and the university/state 22 and between the operating activities and the office of the vice-chancellor health systems (OVCHS) 24.
- mission operating activities school of medicine 12, hospital 14, and faculty clinical practice 16
- OVCHS vice-chancellor health systems
- the exemplary table provides information about the transactions including an index numbering each transaction, who is providing who funding (from/to), whether the funds are given or are payment for service (S, PS), the type of funding, the category of the funding, the amount of the transaction, the description of the transaction, the amount of the transaction, and the source and point of contact for the funding.
- FIG. 10A a chart having the funding flows for programs and services is illustrated.
- the hospital 14 gives funding support to the faculty clinical practice 16 for state appropriations and state paid benefits to model clinics at the hospital's discretion; state appropriations passed through (cash) and benefits (non- cash); joint venture clinic operations; and contracts between the hospital 14 and school of medicine clinical departments and faculty including salaries (cash) and benefits (non-cash) for medical directorships, chiefs of service, program directors, as well as for investment in program and services.
- Funds for the joint venture clinic operations include funding for sharing losses and profits, annual reconciliation verse quarterly (cash flow), expected verse actual collections and medical doctors professional fees (based on sharing formula); low indirect cost/overhead rate, and payment for ambulance care medical directorships.
- FIG 10B a chart having the funding flows for the office of the vice chancellor of health system (OVCHS) and strategic investment fund (SIF) is illustrated.
- the hospital 14 provides funding support to the OVCHS for funding of the strategic investment fund (SIF) net of expenditures on hospital projects.
- the hospital 14 also incurs unreimbursable expenses on behalf of the faculty clinical practice 16 for funding the OVCHS office.
- the OVCHS in turn gives support to the faculty practice clinic 16 for SIF expenditures, faculty salaries (cash), faculty benefits (non- cash) and other expenditures (cash).
- the OVCHS also gives support to the school of medicine 12 for SIF expenditures, faculty salaries (cash), faculty benefits (non-cash) and other expenditures (cash).
- the faculty clinic practice 16 pays the OVCHS for services. These services are for funding from MDs for marketing (cash).
- FIG 10C a chart having the funding flows for public aid and for the prisoner population is illustrated.
- both the hospital 14 and faculty clinical practice 16 incur unreimbursed expenses in supporting these clinical services.
- the unreimbursed expenses are a result in the shortfall of the public aid and prison population before reimbursement reset.
- the hospital 14 incurs an unreimbursed expense for supporting the school of medicine 12. This expense is for clerical and other support for the research.
- the school of medicine 12 also pays the hospital 14 for hospital services for research for such items as beds, labs, x-rays, etc.
- the faculty clinical practice 16 gives funding support to the school of medicine 12. The funds are for the dean's tax (cash) of the net of services provided.
- the faculty clinical practice 16 incurs an unreimbursed expense for payment of faculty salaries and benefits for research efforts, as well as payment of non-faculty salaries and benefits for research and teaching efforts.
- the faculty clinical practice 16 incurs unreimbursed expenses for faculty effort benefiting the hospital 14, e.g. committee meetings.
- school of medicine 12 also gives support to the hospital 14 for its residency program.
- the school of medicine 12 incurs unreimbursed expenses for faculty effort benefiting the hospital 14, e.g. supervision of house staff.
- FIG 10E a chart having the funding flows for central provided services is illustrated.
- the university/state support the school of medicine 12 (including the basic science departments) with state appropriations to the departments for research and teaching (cash) and state paid benefits (non-cash).
- the university/state support the hospital 14 with state appropriations (cash).
- the hospital 14 supports the university for other colleges, i.e., health professions, pharmacy, nursing (cash).
- the hospital pays the university/state for purchased service from the nursing and dentistry colleges (cash).
- the university/state support the hospital 14 for maintenance, utilities, and A&G (non-cash).
- the university/state support the OVCHS with state funding including excellence in academics (cash).
- the hospital 14 pays the university/state for services. These services are central service charges (i.e., overhead for university/campus administration).
- the school of medicine 12 pays for central services.
- the university/state supports the school of medicine 12 for services provided in excess of funds generated retained (non-cash).
- the faculty clinical plan 16 pays the school of medicine 12 for services including dean's tax applied toward services provided by the dean for the faculty clinical practice 16 (cash).
- a table of the purchased services and support by the hospital is illustrated.
- FIG. 12A-B a chart of the strategic investment fund is illustrated. This columns are broken into the expenditures/transfers out, department attributed for funds flow, UIC attribution by department, description, school of medicine, hospital, MSP, faculty salaries for the school of medicine, all other school of medicine, faculty salaries for MSP, all other MSP, and the total. The rows are broken into different administrations and the hospital's administrations. Each column is tallied to determine the total expenditure/transfer out of the different entities.
- reporting departments For reporting, data is collected at any level which will be useful for internal analyses. In the preferred embodiment, every effort is made to report separately all departments and sections indicated with an * and some departments may be rolled into a parent party. In the preferred embodiment, data is collected for the following departments: anesthesiology * , dermatology * , emergency medicine * , family medicine * , internal medicine*, neurology*, obstetrics/gunecology * , pediatrics*, physical medicine/rehabiliaton medicine*, psychiatry * , radiology * . Pathology * , and surgery * .
- Internal medicine is a parent department and includes general internal medicine, cardiology*, endocrinogy/metabolism, geriatrics, gastroenterology * . hematology/oncology * , infectious diseases, nepharology, pulmonary disease * , and rheumatology.
- Obsterics/gynecology is a parent department and includes gynecology oncology, maternal and fetal medicine and reproductive endocrinology.
- Pediatrics is a parent department and includes general pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, pediatric critical care, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric gastroentrology, pediatric neonatal medicine, pediatric neorology, and pediatric pulmonology.
- Radiology is a parent department and includes nuclearTnedicine, radiation oncology* and diagnostic radiology*.
- Pathology is a parent department and includes anatomic pathology, clinical pathology and basic science.
- Surgery is a parent department and includes cardiovascular surgery, general surgery, neorological surgery*, ophthalmology * , orthopedic surgery*, otorhinolaryngology * , pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, urology * , and vascular/thoracic surgery.
- the excess or deficit funds is the funds generated by the department plus the funds invested in the department minus the department's expenses.
- the funds generated include clinical revenue, research revenue, tuition and fees, and purchased administration.
- the funds invested include departmental and institutional funds.
- Departmental funds include endowment income, investment income and gifts.
- Institutional funds include the dean's allocation of state and institutional funds, other institutional funds, centrally provided services less retained funds generated and taxes on funds generated.
- Expenses include expenses managed at the department as well as expenses managed centrally.
- Externally funds are defined as funds generated from external sources related to current operating activities of the research, teaching and clinical missions. External funds include net patient care revenue, direct expense reimbursement - Federal and non-Federal, indirect cost recovery - Federal and non-Federal, tuition and fees, direct paid salaries, other externally generated funds.
- Line 1 is the Net Patient Care Revenue which includes revenue generated from patient care activities.
- Lines 2 and 3 are Direct Reimbursement (DER), Federal and non-Federal, which include the portion of grant and contract funding for direct expenses (expenses received directly at the department and accounted for at the department). Grant and contract funds are attributed to research, teaching (e.g., teaching and training grants) or clinical (e.g., public service contracts to provide clinical care) mission activities. Direct expense reimbursement is identified separately for Federal and non-Federal funding sources.
- Lines 4 and 5 are Indirect Cost Recovery (ICR), Federal and non-Federal, which are portions of grant funding for institutional overhead expenses. Indirect cost recovery is identified separately for Federal and non-Federal funding sources.
- ICR Indirect Cost Recovery
- Line 6 is Tuition and Fees which are student payments for tuition and fees allocated to a department. Payments are not received directly at the departments are reported here and will have an equal amount on Line 29 in the "Funds Generated Retained" section.
- Line 7 is the Direct Paid Salaries which are faculty compensation received directly form external sources related to current operating activities of the research, teaching or clinical missions (e.g., Veteran Administration direct paid salaries for patient care services). There will be an equal expense amount reported as line 44 - Direct Paid faculty Salaries and Benefits).
- the other externally generated funds in lines 8a and 8b are other external funds related to research, teaching and clinical mission activities not included in lines 1-7.
- Line 10 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 1-8.
- Internally generated funds are defined as funds generated from the internal sale and purchase of services related to research, teaching and clinical missions.
- a hospital 14 may purchase medical director services or other physician leadership activities. Internal funds generated includes payments received for services (lines 11 and 12) as well as unreimbursed services (lines 13 and 14). Sale and purchases of services involving the hospital 14 are include in line 11. Unreimbursed services involving the hospital 14 are included in line 13. Unreimbursed services will have an equal offsetting amount recorded on lines 34 or 35 as support to other operating units.
- Line 16 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 11-14.
- Line 17 is the total funds generated which is calculated by adding lines 10 and 17.
- Institutional Investment includes funds committed to a program or department from University, Health System, Dean or other executive/central level sources.
- Lines 18-21 are funds provided from the University, Health System, Dean and other sources. These funds are provided by the executive level sources to a program or department, e.g., Dean's allocations and commitments.
- Line 22 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 18-21.
- Lines 23-26 are expenses incurred on behalf of a department from the University, Health System, Dean and other sources. Overhead and centrally managed expenses incurred on behalf of departments at executive and administrative/central levels that are not charged to departments, e.g., centrally provided services, dean's office expenses, etc.
- Line 27 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 23-26.
- Lines 28-30 are funds generated retained from the research/ICR retained, teaching and clinical. External funds generated related to department research, teaching and clinical mission activities that are retained or taxed by executive levels, e.g., ICR or tuition and fee revenue retained at executive/central levels, dean's taxes on clinical revenues, taxes on internal transactions, interest income on clinical funds retained at executive levels.
- Line 31 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 28-30.
- Lines 38-35 are directed to support between AMC operating units and include: funds committed to a program or department from other operating units (hospital 14s, school of medicine 12, faculty clinical practice 16); expenses incurred at the operating level on behalf of another operating unit that are not reimbursed; and unreimbursed services across operating units reported on lines 13 or 14. Transaction involving the hospital 14 are separately identified.
- Line 32 are funds committed to a program or department from other operating units, involving the hospital 14.
- Line 33 are funds committed to a program or department from other operating units, not involving the hospital 14.
- Line 34 are expenses incurred at the operating level on behalf of another operating unit that are not reimbursed, involving the hospital 14.
- Unreimbursed services across operating units reported on line 13 are expenses incurred at the operating level on behalf of another operating unit that are not reimbursed, not involving the hospital 14.
- Line 37 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 32-35
- Lines 38-40 are directed to departmental investment which includes: funds committed to operative activities from departmental non-operating; funds committed to operative activities from departmental operating sources across missions; and expenses incurred within a department on behalf of another mission that are not reimbursed.
- Line 38 are funds committed to operative activities from departmental operating sources across missions, e.g., transfers from faculty clinical practice 16 to support research and teaching missions within a department.
- Line 39 are expenses incurred within a department on behalf of another mission that are not reimbursed, e.g., payment of faculty salaries from clinical mission funds in excess of effort at the clinical mission.
- Line 40 are funds committed to operating activities from departmental non-operating sources, e.g., use of endowment or interest income earnings, use of prior period reserves, patent and royalty income.
- Line 41 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 38-40.
- Line 42 is the total funds invested.
- Line 43 is the total for the sources of funds. Referring to Figure 15C, uses of funds for the school of medicine 12, both externally funded research and other academic areas and the faculty clinical practice 16 are illustrated.
- Lines 44-56 are directed to funds managed at a department which includes expenses managed at the department.
- Line 44 reflects direct paid salaries from sources outside the AMD, e.g., Veteran Administration direct paid salaries for patient care activities.
- Line 45 is an adjustment to an accounting firm to match effort by mission to faculty salary and benefit expense by mission. This is based on participant reported time and effort by mission and relationship of medical group management association (MGMA) faculty compensation expense to clinical mission production.
- Lines 46 and 47 reflect department paid faculty salaries and benefits, respectively.
- Lines 48 and 49 reflect department paid non-faculty salaries and benefits, respectively.
- Line 50 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 44- 49.
- Line 51 are the expenses managed at the department not included in lines 44- 49, e.g., non-compensation expenses.
- Line 52 is the indirect cost recovery money returned to the departments.
- Line 53 reflects the unreimbursed expenses supporting operating activities included in lines 34 and 35.
- Line 55 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 51-53.
- Line 56 is the total managed at the department.
- Lines 57-61 are directed to other sources of funds which include expenses managed at executive/central levels.
- Lines 57-60 reflect allocations of overhead and centrally managed services included in lines 23-26 and are directed to the university, health system, dean, and others, respectively.
- Line 61 is the subtotal which is calculated by adding lines 57-60.
- Line 62 is the total uses of funds.
- Line 63 is the total sources over or under the uses of funds.
- Line 64 is the use of the prior period reserves.
- Line 64 is directed to the use of prior period excess to support current operating period. This includes net transfers into current operating funds.
- Line 65 is the total sources over or under the uses of funds.
- a further refinement of the description of AHC commerce is to define all monetary and non-monetary transfers between corners of the triangle that represent investment/support, which is defined as a non reciprocal transfer which results in one operating unit receiving a benefit without experiencing a corresponding sacrifice, or a purchased service, defined as a reciprocal transfer or exchange in which an operating unit both receives a benefit and performs a service.
- a purchased service may have imbedded within it support.
- one of the major types of purchased services identified is the payment to physician faculty for management and supervision of hospital units, e.g., the medical director function.
- the fair market value (FMV) needs to be determined for the services.
- Customized Statements may contain sources or uses of funds, which the participant wishes to specifically identify - e.g., clinical income from a specific contract or support from an unusual source.
- Standard Departmental Statements two mappings have taken place. First, the department or divisions have been aggregated into a specific set of clinical departments (See Figure 13) Second, the line items under the Standard Departmental Statements are identical for each participant and all departmental sources and uses of funds have been mapped to appropriate common line items.
- FIG 16 an exemplary customized departmental statement for the anesthesiology department is illustrated. As shown, the left column are described with respect to Figures 15A-C. The rest of the columns are broken into the school of medicine, practice plan, hospital/ambulance accounts and the total. The school of medicine column is further broken down into research, other academic and GME columns. Each participant receives its own customized supporting statements. Additional examples of customized department statements for other departments are attached in appendix A.
- FIG 17 an exemplary standard departmental statement for the anesthesiology department is illustrated. As shown, the left column are described with respect to Figures 15A-C. The rest of the columns are broken into the school of medicine, practice plan, hospital/ambulance accounts and the total. The school of medicine column is further broken down into externally funded research and other academic columns. Each participant receives all the participants Supporting Statements. Additional examples of standard department statements for other departments are attached in appendix A.
- This report is an aggregate of different clinical departments-it is not for any particular participant. It provides sources and uses information on an FTE basis that can be used to construct analyses of a participant's department relative to the aggregate benchmark data from all participants.
- the reports can be provided in a variety of manners. In one embodiment, the reports are provided as hard copies. In yet another embodiment, the reports are provided on a memory medium such as a floppy disk or compact disc. In the preferred embodiment, the reports are available via a network, such as the Internet. Providing the reports via an electronic media, such as either of the later embodiments, the individual participants to re-arrange and re-analyze the date to meet local educational and management needs. Several participants have already determined which key measures they wish to track and provide to enterprise leadership.
- each participant also receives a series of diskettes containing the seven funds flow reports in a digital format.
- Participants use the deliverables from the funds flow project in a number of ways.
- the analyses help quantify the value of the clinical mission.
- a number of previous participants have used these results to explain the AHC clinical enterprise to external constituencies.
- the data can be used to support negations and to rationalize contracting between the system participants.
- the results are especially intended to support analyses of departmental operating issues and promote departmental accountability.
- a standardized report can be generated for each participant.
- a standard report allows participants to be compared to other participants.
- an emergency room participant can compare itself with a pediatrics participant.
- the emergency room participant can compare itself with another emergency room participant from a different AHC hospital 14.
- Such comparisons allow for benchmarking and allows for participants to determine how other participants handle similar costs and services, thus allowing participants to reduce costs and increase their service to costs ratios.
- the categories of funding sources and uses as defined provide participants with the ability to analyze the total economics of mission operating activities and to compare productivity, efficiency and total investment in operating activities across participants. These analyses over time by participant and across participants are supported by the ability to identify total productivity, total investment, total expenses, institutional support and investment across missions.
- the total productivity are the total funds generated from operating activities, whether received and managed at the department level or retained at administrative/executive/central levels to fund overhead and centrally managed activities that support mission operating activities.
- the total investment is the investment required to support operating activities, both funds provided to and expenses incurred on behalf of departments.
- Total expenses are the expenses supporting mission operating activities, including those managed at the executive or central levels and those incurred on behalf of departments.
- Institutional support is for the support in mission operating activities as funds provided plus expenses incurred directly on behalf of departments net of funds generated from operating activities that are retained at institutional levels to fund overhead and centrally managed services.
- the investment across missions occurs both across AMC operating units and within departments as well as investment in mission operating activities at the institutional level.
- Total Faculty Compensation per Faculty Full Time Equivalent is the ratio of the Total Faculty Compensation verse the Full Time Equivalent Faculty; (2) Total Non- Faculty Compensation per Faculty Full Time Equivalent (FTE) is the ratio of the Total Non-Faculty Compensation verse the Full Time Equivalent Faculty; (3) Total Non- Faculty Non-Compensation Expenses per Faculty Full Time Equivalent (FTE) (including Centrally Provided Services) is the ratio of the Total Non-Compensation Expenses verse the Full Time Equivalent Faculty; (4) Total Expenses per Faculty Full Time Equivalent (FTE) (including Centrally Provided Services) is the ratio of the Total Expenses verse the Full Time Equivalent Faculty; (5) Actual Funds Invested per Faculty Full Time Equivalent (FTE) is the ratio of Total Funds invested verse Full Time Equivalent Faculty; (6) Departmental Funds Invested per Faculty Full Time Equivalent (FTE) is the ratio of Departmental Funds Invested verse Full Time Equivalent Faculty; and (7) Centrally Provided Services per Faculty Full Time Equivalent (FTE)
- Clinical external funds generated as a percent of total external funds generated is the ratio of clinical external funds generated verse total external funds generated
- Clinical faculty compensation as a percent of clinical external funds generated is the ratio of clinical faculty compensation verse total external funds generated
- Clinical faculty compensation as a percentage of total faculty compensation is the ratio of total non-compensation expenses verse full time equivalent faculty (FTE)
- Clinical faculty compensation as a percentage of total faculty compensation is the ratio of total expenses verse full time equivalent faculty (FTE)
- Clinical operating margin percentage of total operating margin is the ratio of clinical operating margin verse total operating margin.
- Clinical efficiency is the ratio of the clinical revenue verse total faculty salaries and benefits
- Externally funded research efficiency is the ratio of the direct and indirect research revenue verse total faculty salaries and benefits
- Other external funds generated efficiency is the ratio of other funds generated verse total faculty salaries and benefits
- Clinical efficiency is the ratio of the clinical revenue minus the clinical expenses paid at department other than faculty salaries and benefits verse total faculty salaries and benefits
- Externally funded research efficiency is the ratio of the direct and indirect research revenue minus research expenses paid at department other than faculty salaries and benefits verse total faculty salaries and benefits
- Other external funds generated efficiency is the ratio of other funds generated minus other academic expenses paid at department other than faculty salaries and benefits verse total faculty salaries and benefits.
- Figures 18A-D are exemplary charts of the key ratios for the clinical departments.
- the rows contain values for the different key ratios for the different departments listed in the columns.
- Figures 19A-B are exemplary charts of the key ratios for an anesthesiology department. Again, the rows contain values for the different key ratios for the different anesthesiology departments listed in the columns. The columns include the mean for the department as well as the standard deviation.
- each participant is given an institutional code. The purpose of the codes is to prevent a non-participant from gleaning participant-specific data from a report. Each participant receives the code key that identifies the participants.
- Computer system 1100 includes a bus 1102 or other communication mechanism for communicating information, and a processor 1104 coupled with bus 1102 for processing information.
- Computer system 1100 also includes a main memory 1106, such as a random access memory (RAM) or other dynamic storage device, coupled to bus 1102 for storing information and instructions to be executed by processor 1104.
- Main memory 1106 also may be used for storing temporary variables or other intermediate information during execution of instructions to be executed by processor 1104.
- Computer system 1100 further includes a read only memory (ROM) 108 or other static storage device coupled to bus 1102 for storing static information and instructions for processor 1104.
- ROM read only memory
- a storage device 1110 such as a magnetic disk or optical disk, is provided and coupled to bus 1102 for storing information and instructions.
- Computer system 1100 may be coupled via bus 1102 to a display 1112, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), for displaying information to a computer user.
- An input device 1114 is coupled to bus 1102 for communicating information and command selections to processor 1104.
- cursor control 116 is Another type of user input device for communicating direction information and command selections to processor 1104 and for controlling cursor movement on display 1112.
- This input device typically has two degrees of freedom in two axes, a first axis (e.g., x) and a second axis (e.g., y), that allows the device to specify positions in a plane.
- a first axis e.g., x
- a second axis e.g., y
- Computer system 1100 operates in response to processor 1104 executing one or more sequences of one or more instructions contained in main memory 1106. Such instructions may be read into main memory 1106 from another computer- readable medium, such as storage device 1110. Execution of the sequences of instructions contained in main memory 1106 causes processor 1104 to perform the process steps described herein. In alternative embodiments, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement the invention. Thus, embodiments of the invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.
- Non-volatile media includes, for example, optical or magnetic disks, such as storage device 1110.
- Volatile media includes dynamic memory, such as main memory 1106.
- Transmission media includes coaxial cables, copper wire and fiber optics, including the wires that comprise bus 102. Transmission media can also take the form of acoustic or light waves, such as those generated during radio-wave and infra-red data communications.
- Computer-readable media include, for example, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, or any other magnetic medium, a CD- ROM, any other optical medium, punchcards, papertape, any other physical medium with patterns of holes, a RAM, a PROM, and EPROM, a FLASH-EPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave as described hereinafter, or any other medium from which a computer can read.
- Various forms of computer readable media may be involved in carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions to processor 1104 for execution.
- the instructions may initially be carried on a magnetic disk of a remote computer.
- the remote computer can load the instructions into its dynamic memory and send the instructions over a telephone line using a modem.
- a modem local to computer system 1100 can receive the data on the telephone line and use an infrared transmitter to convert the data to an infra-red signal.
- An infra-red detector can receive the data carried in the infra-red signal and appropriate circuitry can place the data on bus 1102.
- Bus 1102 carries the data to main memory 1106, from which processor 1104 retrieves and executes the instructions.
- Computer system 1100 also includes a communication interface 1118 coupled to bus 1102.
- Communication interface 1118 provides a two-way data communication coupling to a network link 1120 that is connected to a local network 1122.
- communication interface 1118 may be an integrated services digital network (ISDN) card or a modem to provide a data communication connection to a corresponding type of telephone line.
- ISDN integrated services digital network
- communication interface 1118 may be a local area network (LAN) card to provide a data communication connection to a compatible LAN.
- LAN local area network
- Wireless links may also be implemented.
- communication interface 1118 sends and receives electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals that carry digital data streams representing various types of information.
- Network link 1120 typically provides data communication through one or more networks to other data devices.
- network link 1120 may provide a connection through local network 1122 to a host computer 1124 or to data equipment operated by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) 1126.
- ISP 126 in turn provides data communication services through the world wide packet data communication network now commonly referred to as the "Internet" 1128.
- Internet 1128 uses electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals that carry digital data streams.
- the signals through the various networks and the signals on network link 1120 and through communication interface 1118, which carry the digital data to and from computer system 1100, are exemplary forms of carrier waves transporting the information.
- Computer system 1100 can send messages and receive data, including program code, through the network(s), network link 1120 and communication interface 1118.
- a server 1130 might transmit a requested code for an application program through Internet 1128, ISP 1126, local network 1122 and communication interface 1118.
- the received code may be executed by processor 1104 as it is received, and/or stored in storage device 1110, or other non-volatile storage for later execution.
- computer system 1100 may obtain application code in the form of a carrier wave.
- Computer workstation and computer systems such as those illustrated can be utilized to automate the analysis and reporting depicted herein.
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