Organizational Structure of Health Management
The managed health care industry is a hybrid of medical management and business administration. It takes business professionals to maintain a health care organization's financial and administrative functions, and medical staff to provide services to patients.
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Boards
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Many health care entities, such as hospitals and medical organizations, include a board of directors at the top of the organizational ladder. The board appoints the organization's chief executive officer. A May, 2000 article in the CBS Business Interactive Network says that a CEO is at the top of the executive system.
Divisions
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Organizational health-care structures are split into the administrative and medical sectors. On the administrative side, the CEO manages the chief financial officer, chief compliance officer, chief information officer and chief operations officer. On the medical side, the CEO oversees the company's chief medical officer.
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Executive Levels
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Beneath the chiefs are executives and administrators. The administrators include directors and managers of finance, accounting, contracts, information systems and business operations. Medical executives include clinical directors, quality management directors and executive physicians.
Direct Care
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Staff who provide direct care to patients in health management are at the bottom of the organizational structure. These employees are supervised by managers and directors from the executive level. Direct-care employees include doctors, nurses and customer service representatives.
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