Health Management - Econ & Finance of Healthcare

Catalog description

This course covers economic and financial concepts relevant to health care management and demonstrates how they are applied to actual situations in the health care industry in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. It examines general issues of healthcare consumption, supply and demand, and healthcare resource allocation as well as specific concepts of financial management and decision making, budgeting, and revenue management and their application to the health care system. In addition, the course will cover healthcare payment systems and reimbursement methods of various payers in the health services industries.