Healthcare Financial Management
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Healthcare Financial Management Course
Introduction:
Healthcare financial management deals with the business side of healthcare by making sure that facilities provide quality patient care in a fiscally responsible manner.
Proper management of a health organization’s finances allows it to improve patient care, minimize risk, make needed investments, and explore new streams of revenue. Financial issues are fundamental in healthcare environment, and managers must be prepared as they endeavor to improve the delivery of health services.
This course mixes theory with practice in the process of decision making. Key concepts, glossary terms, learning objectives, and spreadsheet problems are also featured throughout the course, helping learners to make educated financial decisions in even the most unpredictable provider settings.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this Healthcare Financial Management course you should be able to:
- Audit and comprehend the different types of financial decisions healthcare organizations make and an easier approach to the topics presented.
- Clarify the effects of health change and the Affordable Care Act on financial management
- Acquire knowledge about Health insurance and payments to providers.
- Illustrate key concepts through the Integrative Applications present in-depth practice issues.
- Mimic the most interesting real-world situations through anecdotal sidebars associated with the course.
- Get a bundle of key equations in one place to get a handy outline of the most important mathematical formulas and variable definitions
Who Should Attend?
Healthcare Financial Management Training course, is ideal for:
- Non-financial managers and healthcare professionals who need to learn tools and techniques for managing healthcare costs, budgets and investments and for transforming financial performance, and
- Finance managers or professionals who have financial expertise or qualifications and are seeking a program that provides specialist coverage of financial, cost and management accounting techniques applied in a healthcare context.
Course Outlines:
The Healthcare Environment
- Introduction to Healthcare Financial Management.
- The Third-Party-Payer System.
Fundamental Financial Management Concepts
- Time Value Analysis.
- Financial Risk and Required Return.
Capital Acquisition
- Debt Financing.
- Equity Financing and Investment Banking.
- Securities Valuation, Market Efficiency, and Debt Refunding.
- Lease Financing.
Cost of Capital and Capital Structure
- Cost of Capital.
- Capital Structure Decisions.
Capital Allocation
- The Basics of Capital Budgeting.
- Project Risk Analysis.
Financial Condition Analysis and Forecasting
- Financial Condition Analysis.
- Financial Forecasting.