Graduate Study
Health Systems Finance
Program Overview
Business savvy, leadership ability and critical decision-making skills are the necessary traits for success as a financial manager in the future of health care. Reducing costs and delivering bottom-line results to shareholders without sacrificing quality is an extremely challenging task.
The management of resources in health care has and continues to be a challenge. Managers must seek to learn new rules and regulations governing health care as well as meet the specifications of multiple payers and the ultimate consumer of the product, the customers themselves. To align operations to a plan, then actuate the plan and assess financial performance is a key control feature of the manager's job.
Curriculum Review
The graduate certificate in health systems finance (16 credits) provides you with an overview of managerial economics, budgeting, finance and product management as they relate to distinct health care organizations. This series of courses provides in-depth overview of the financing of operations, the use of technology to monitor financial systems, and an understanding of health insurance and their requirements builds a foundation for managerial control.
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