Managerial Accounting for Health Care Administrators
Winter
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Grazier, Kyle; Smith, Dean G
Prerequisites: Intermediate microeconomics theory
Concepts and techniques of managerial accounting for generalist health care administrators. Topics covered include full cost measurement, differential cost measurement and analysis, sources of revenue, price setting, budgeting and control, costs and decision-making fund accounting
This course examines the conceptual and management frameworks for financing health care services through insurance, contracting and managed care. It analyzes past and current research on the formulation of payment techniques and the impact of reimbursement methods on consumers, providers, payers and society. The course explores the theories on which health care pricing, payment and reimbursement systems are based and the administrative and financial mechanisms through which they operate. Lectures, cases, readings.
HMP632
Managed Care Administration
term(s)
1 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Grazier, Kyle
HMP667
Advanced Seminar in Health Care Financial Management
Winter
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Grazier, Kyle
Not offered 2009-2010
Prerequisites: HMP Student or Perm of Instr. and HMP 607
This course builds on the language, theories and methods of finance and accounting through the study of financial transactions involving health care and other industries. Topics include financing alternatives, valuations, financial forecasting, risk management, entreprenuership and sustainable growth. Among the transactions studied are corporate lending, venture capital acquisition, and public offerings. Cases, readings, lectures.
HMP682
Case Studies in Health Services Administration
Winter
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Grazier, Kyle
Prerequisites: Second year HMP masters candidate or Perm Instr
Analysis of cases dealing with administrative and policy issues in health services, offered as one of two integrative capstone course for persons completing the MHSA or MPH in the Department of Health Management and Policy. The course addresses primarily issues of healthcare delivery, from the perspective of corporate strategy. Emphasis is on student solutions to ill-defined, multi-faceted problems taken from actual situations. Specific competencies developed by the course address both process team work and collaboration to analyze complex issues, presentation skills and contents identifying key business success factors and strategic alternatives for provider organizations and health insurers in various settings.
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