Business Case Report: Health Financial Management in Healthcare Sector

This report presents a comprehensive business case for establishing a new healthcare facility in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. It outlines the aims, benefits, and efficiency gains of the proposed facility, focusing on specialized healthcare services for older patients. The report details the financial plan, including projected annual costs and profit, and identifies potential risks related to financial investments, patient safety, and insurance. It also covers the process of implementation, resource allocation, and reporting of outcomes. The report emphasizes the importance of liaising with domestic health agencies to compensate for limited resources and improve healthcare services. The findings highlight the necessity for such a facility to address the healthcare needs of the community, particularly the elderly, while also considering financial and operational risks. The report also includes financial information and references to support the business case.

Running head: HEALTH FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Health Financial Management
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Executive Summary
The different sections of the study aims to identify the activities which relate to the formation
of a new public healthcare setup to be formed in Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. The main
contribution to the value offered among the local health service and district to the facility
included in study is also stated in the study is also specified. The different aspects of the
report will show the reasons for improvement in the business. In this section of proposal the
report will highlight the rationale for the health service which are critical to the business. The
overall findings of the report have shown that the various types of necessity of such a service
needs to be understood in form of creating a liaising among the domestic health agencies and
LHD to compensate for the drawbacks of limited supplies of healthcare equipment. The
consideration of financial risk is identified with increasing cost of new technology. In
addition to this, the risk of the patient safety is associated to fulfilling the expired
prescriptions, inadequacy in retention of the record and tracking of missed appointments. The
overall financial plan depictions have evaluated annual cost for the healthcare facility is seen
as $30,12,479.60 and the profit amount is calculated as $ 324616320.4

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Background................................................................................................................................4
The Proposal...............................................................................................................................5
Aims.......................................................................................................................................5
Benefits..................................................................................................................................5
Efficiency Gains.................................................................................................................5
Potential Savings/increased costs.......................................................................................5
Expected benefits of the proposal......................................................................................5
Risks...........................................................................................................................................7
Process......................................................................................................................................10
Resources.................................................................................................................................10
Reporting of outcomes.............................................................................................................10
Financial Information...............................................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11
Attachment 1............................................................................................................................12
Attachment 2............................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The important considerations of the report aims to state the proceedings of
establishing a new healthcare facility in Australia. The first section of the discussion will
outline the activities which are to be covered, contributing value to the local health district
and services which are to be brought along in the facility. The second aspect have provided
the background on present cost, contract and equipment which are needed to establish the
business at LDH level. This area of the report will highlight on the rationale by health service
is important at the first place. In the proposal section business case strategy will be
formulated in terms of the aims of the business, benefits and factors associated with the
benefit. The next important topic will cover the insurance rates, patient risk and financial risk
associated to the proposal. In the process plan the development of action processes for
showing the nomination of staff members and other activities to plan the life of the project
will be subsequently covered. The resource section will include a study on additional
resources which are relevant to the impact of the different types of identify factors.
Outline
The main objective of the formulation of health centre facility is aimed at providing
accessibility of specialised healthcare services to the old age patients. In addition to this, it
will also make significant amount of contributions pertaining to providing adequate number
of medical, paramedical and supportive staff for community health care Centre. The overall
plan of the business case will be also aimed at including different types of complimentary
facilities and medical services for improving overall functionality of delivering specialised
healthcare services. It will also ensure conducting of family welfare programme for CHC.
The efficiency gains will be identified in terms of timely supply of essential medicine into the
community health care centres and improved specialised medical support to the old age

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patients. The overall project savings in this proposal is inferred in form of minimisation of
cost for providing specialised healthcare attention to the patients who are suffering from
disease such as diabetes, cardiovascular and low vision. The newly introduced service will
considerably improve grouping patients having similar chronic diseases and overall health
check-ups. It will also significantly improve the patient’s responsibility in monitoring daily
disease probability.
Background
The importance of this service needs to be understood in form of producing a liaising
among the internal health agencies and LHD for compensating the drawbacks of limited
supplies of healthcare equipment. The overall motive of carrying out the business proposition
is also seen with encouraging health care program and activities for boosting social and
physical environments in the community. This kind of service is although mainly focused on
oldest patients but it will also include a small number of programs aimed towards maternal
and child health services (Koch & Racine, 2016). In addition to this some of the other
programs for the business case will involve disability services, outreach services and
rehabilitation programs. In terms of delivering processes used to be seen that techniques such
as ultrasonography and x-ray are the main techniques (Gavurová et al., 2018). They embody
nature of equipment required for conducting the program are identified with Gastroscope, X-
Ray Film processor, ultrasonography machine and Colonoscope. Furthermore, there will be
also inclusion of several types of other utilities such as operating table, significant bump and
anaesthesia trolleys. The overall depiction of annual cost for the healthcare facility is seen as
$30,12,479.60 and the profit amount is calculated as $ 324616320.4

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The Proposal
Aims
The proposed business case for the healthcare facility is aimed at developing a
financial and operational plan which will aim at different types of services offered to old age
patients suffering from various types of chronic diseases.
Benefits
Efficiency Gains
The efficiency gains from the process will include not only the best utilisation of the
available financial resources but also developing a long-term reputation in the society.
Moreover, it will look forward to provide healthcare services to all age patients at the
subsidised rates while partnering with LHDs and other private healthcare organisations
(White et al., 2016).
Potential Savings/increased costs
The important nature of considerations under the potential savings can be traced with
sourcing the equipment from only one supplier.
Expected benefits of the proposal
Factor Benefits
Patients The old age people will be the main party to be benefited from such a
healthcare facility. The different types of benefits associated to such
patients will include providing specialised healthcare facility through a state
health delivery system. The various programs will include management of
illness, medical rehabilitation, preventive and promotive care (Blumenthal
& Collins, 2014).
Facility The beneficial factors related to the facility needs to be understood with the

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consideration of specialised equipment is mainly focusing for the old age
patients. In addition to this, the healthcare Centre will look forward in
partnering with LHDs which will provide additional infrastructural support
and fill the service (Hassan et al., 2018).
Clinicians The various types of benefits for the clinicians needs to be considered with
inclusion of specialised provision for expert advice and significantly
improving the overall consistency of healthcare. The incorporation of
highly innovative equipment for the old age people will also help the
clinicians in streamlining the overall workflow and tracking and agonising
the treatment method along with efficient information gathering.
Henceforth, the clinicians will be able to take advantage of improving the
overall consistency in terms of quality of healthcare services (Wakerman et
al., 2017).
Other The various aspects of the other benefits can be seen in terms of depth of
commitment from the targeted users. Moreover, there will be ample amount
of support associated to the emergency service requirement due to more
number of paramedic’s team who will be customised for providing health
care service to old age patients. The overall program will also ensure that
the program is conducted with the utmost quality and reliability and is able
to maintain the latest procedures for conducting a particular operation. The
healthcare Centre will also ensure that it is able to automate up-to-date
database of the medical records of each patient (Berwick & Hackbarth,
2014).

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Risks
The risks identified for the business proposal are stated as follows:
Risk Issue Severity Impact Mitigation Plan Notes
Financial
risk
Moderate The various types of
financial risks need to be
considered with increasing
cost of new equipment and
technology which may lead
to increased debt burden on
the health care Centre (Issel
& Wells, 2017)
The healthcare
Centre should look
forward to
implement
advanced
alternative payment
model for the
purpose of tracking
the present rate of
equipment
For the
additional
program from
included as
medical shared
service
program and
ACO.
Patients High The risk associated to the
patient safety is considered
with fulfilling the expired
prescriptions, inadequacy in
retention of the record and
tracking of missed
appointments (Wang, Kung
& Byrd, 2018).
The meeting
procedure of such
risks should be
incorporated with
maintenance of
MIS with advanced
RDBMS and
including
appropriate
The risk
management
program will
not only be
beneficial for
the patients but
also ensure
long-term
growth

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Risk Issue Severity Impact Mitigation Plan Notes
communication
technique with the
patients.
prospect and
future value.
The risk plan
needs to also
identify what
are the
possible reason
for causing
discontentment
among the
patients and
how is the
likelihood that
something will
happen to the
risk of the
patient.
Insurances Low The important consideration
of the insurance services is
seen to be risks which are
related to inadequacy of the
healthcare Centre in
transferring of the insurance
claims. This will lead to
The healthcare
Centre should look
forward in
establishing
ongoing risk
management
program and
There is
mitigation
program needs
to consider that
loss of funding
by the relevant
insurance

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Risk Issue Severity Impact Mitigation Plan Notes
huge debt burden on the
patients and the healthcare
facility may lose such
clients (Rebmann et al.,
2017).
strategy and
identification of
programs for
managing and
mitigation of risks
(Joseph et al.,
2014)
provider can
have severe
detrimental
effect on the
future prospect
of the
healthcare
facility
Other-
Physicians
contractin
g
High The physician arrangement
is becoming increasingly
complex day by day and
being them into service is a
greater form of risk (Chinn
et al., 2017)
The healthcare
Centre need to
consider these
contracts to be
crucial to check
whether there is
any violation of
law as per Federal
register of
Australian
government
(Wagner et al.,
2014).
The healthcare
Centre needs
to ensure that
it is having a
robust system
in place for
tracking such
contracts

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Process
Refer to attachment 1
Resources
The consideration of resources can be depicted with the additional investment
perspective and the political support of the Australian government. In case of future PPP
agreements that healthcare Centre has significant scope of reducing its dependence on long-
term debt borrowings and government must provide sufficient financing option to support
new healthcare facilities (Bergé et al., 2018).
Reporting of outcomes
The person appointed for monitoring of the outcomes seen with board of directors and
the review of the report will be done on an annual basis.
Financial Information
Refer to attachment 2
Conclusion
It can be seen that the main aim of business case is associated with providing
specialised healthcare services to the old age patients in Australia. Moreover, the efficiency
gains from the process will include not only the best utilisation of the available financial
resources but also developing a long-term reputation in the society. The financial risks can be
identified with increasing cost of new equipment and technology which are associated with
increased debt burden on the health care Centre.

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