Question

Who will perform the audit plan for a hospital that treats cardiac care ? How many charts should be audited? How often should the audit be performed? Will the audit form need to be adapted for specific units? Such as pediatrics and newborns? If so, what would you suggest for these units? If not, why not?

Answer 1

Question 1) Who will perform the audit plan for a hospital that treats cardiac care ?

Answer 1) An external auditor should be hired for auditing hostpitals that plays out a review, as per explicit laws or rules, of the fiscal summaries of an organization, government element, other lawful element, or association, and is autonomous of the element being examined and must have aware about knowhow of hospital working and income/expenses related stuff.

Question 2) How many charts should be audited?

Answer 2) All these charts should be made and a proper check on these heads must be done with creating a separate chart of following categories.

1) Room Rent

2) Clinical Care

3) Dentistry Charges

4) Conveyance Room Charges

5) Sedation Charges

6) Lab Charges

7) Awards for Operating Needs of Hospital

8) Awards for Fixed Assets

9) Gifts

10) Incidental Income

11) Enthusiasm on Investments

12) Charges from Nursing Training School

13) Bed Charges

14) Working Room Charges

15) X-beam Charges

16) Drug store Charges

17) Physiotherapy Charges

Along with this all Income, Expense, Asset and Liability charts must be audited

Question 3) How often should the audit be performed?

Answer 3) Audit should be planned as per the size of the hospital the number of patient arriving in the hospital etc. If the hospital is big then in such cases every 3 months Audit must be done if the hospital is small then audit can be performed in every 6 months as well.

Question 4) Will the audit form need to be adapted for specific units? Such as pediatrics and newborns? If so, what would you suggest for these units? If not, why not?

Answer 4) Yes the Audit should vary from unit to units because the number of client arriving in all units may differ along with this the revenue earned, expenses, fees charged from all units will be different. For example the charge of newborn babies patient may be $20000 and the income earned by hospital may be $2000 and for cardiac arrest the charge for patient may be $50000 and the income earned by hospital may be $15000. So as the characteristic of each unit differs so the audit should be done as per specific units