Graduate Healthcare Finance Cluster

This course will cover a broad range of topics to include an overview of the healthcare system and evolving reimbursement methodologies; healthcare accounting and financial statements; managing cash, and billing and collections; and an analysis of financing major capital investments. Budgeting and performance measurement and pricing will also be reviewed.

This course will explain the fundamental failures in the market for healthcare and discusses the concepts of equity and fairness when applied to health and healthcare. Students will also address a range of universal health policy issues through the application of health economic analyses.

This course will address the current problems specific to resource management in healthcare delivery and will also emphasize the need for a mix of financial and nonfinancial measurements in reports to support management control. Students will discuss production analysis, cost measurement, and internal reporting concepts that are imperative to making informed management decisions.