Health Care Finance ((3 Units))

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Permission. This course provides the student with a thorough understanding of financial analysis techniques as they are used in health care management and public health.  Because clinicians work in a wide array of health care environments (retail chains, hospitals, PBMs, MCOs, etc.), this course will focus on a very general set of tools and concepts used in the management of clinical services. That is, this course focuses on those general financial analysis skills used by clinicians in managing their own practice or department within a large organization, and primarily from the perspective of clinical practice.  Students will also be asked to complete a substantial amount of hands-on financial analysis work using real data.