With this graduate-level Healthcare Finance Certificate of Completion, you can apply leading-edge, hands-on education to assist organizations and make a difference in healthcare today. You'll receive an introduction to healthcare finance including capital structure and elements of the revenue cycle and will examine the economics of today's healthcare environment.
Earn these stackable credits to add to your degree plan or to your current credentials.
Students seeking this certificate of completion will need to successfully complete all three courses:
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An introduction to healthcare finance, including management control processes, financial statement analysis, ratio analysis, variance analysis, and capital structure is the focus of this course. A foundational background of the economics of today's healthcare environment is examined.
Skills learned in this course include:
The course introduces the key elements of the revenue cycle in relationship to healthcare organizations and physician practices. Elements include patient access, scheduling, financial clearance, coding, insurance follow up, enrollment/credentialing, chargemaster, payment posting, credits/refunds, revenue integrity, claims and customer service.
This course advances the knowledge of revenue cycles through a focus on factors that play an important role in the overall success of an organization's revenue cycle. Elements include administrative-related functions that are instrumental to the success of the revenue cycle, technology's role, internal controls, reporting of key metrics, contracting, and the importance of organizational communication and relationships with operations.