Assignment Overview: This assignment will explore the costs of medical stays in the areas of acute, outpatient, long-term care and home health care. Assignment Goal- The goal of this assignment is to obtain a better understanding of hospital costs and ways to reduce costs for your patients. Assignment directions: This APA paper will explore the costs of medical stays in many different areas of nursing. The paper should include the following criteria listed in Steps 1-5. Step 1: Pick one of the following areas: Acute care, Outpatient – procedure or antibiotic therapy, Long Term Care, or Home Health visit. Step 2: Next choose the type of patient scenario you would like to build: examples include: Cardiac Cath patient, outpatient Vancomycin treatments for 3 weeks, Outpatient lesion removal, Long term care stays. Step 3: Based on the above criteria create your own patient scenario incorporating the area the patient is staying, the room charge, a procedure or test this patient might have, Lab work that would be drawn for this patient, Medication charges, Physical Therapy/Occupational/Speech Therapy, and a Follow up visit.