HPEM 6310 Public Health Finance

Healthcare financial management draws heavily from financial accounting, managerial accounting, finance and economics. HPEM 6310 specifically focuses on learning and applying key financial and managerial accounting tools and concepts to healthcare problems. It provides a broad introduction to key concepts, issues, tools and vocabulary useful for both policy makers and administrators. Topics include healthcare financial statements, recording transactions, financial statement analysis, full costing, differential costing, budgeting and responsibility accounting. The course uses a number of cases and focuses upon both analytics and communication skills. Although we will touch on these topics, a more robust discussion of healthcare financial management topics such as reimbursement systems, physician compensation models and operational budgeting are found in other courses in the curriculum.

Credits

3