DISCUSION: "Using Ratios as Performance Indicators and Inflation and Health Care Costs"

Please respond to the following:

• Suggest one key financial ratio that a health care administrator should create a trend analysis for. Suggest one key insight that may be gained by the administrator in regard to the performance of the organization. Provide support for your rationale.

• Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research the current and projected inflation rates and the related impact expected on health care costs. Next, assess the level of importance of one key driver of the inflation of health care costs. Indicate how this inflation can be managed strategically in the future to minimize the financial impact. Provide support for your rationale.