-Select a hospital setting in any state. Indicate state

-Explore the role the Medicare cost report plays in a value-based health care system

-Address issues included in the report like facility characteristics, utilization data, cost, and charges by cost center.

-Choose 2 utilization metrics and address how it has impacted the facility of choice

-using the MCR, analyze the current economic trends both producing a loss and producing revenue.

-what economic principles (macro and micro) are driving this shift/

-evaluate implications of this volume to the facility's future income stream.

--analyze revenue of at least 3 specific department and evaluate its implications