Emphasis on overseeing the moral mission of health institutions while at the same time maintaining the economic viability of those institutions. HCAI 5301 Managerial Accounting Concepts and techniques of managerial accounting for generalist health care administrators. Emphasizes managerial accounting applications for using financial data as a tool for management planning and decision making in health care. Topics covered included financial accounting, cost accounting, source of revenues, budgeting and control, pricing, and profitability determination. Policy An overview of the organization, delivery, financing, and evaluation of the U.S. health care system.
Emphasis is on major system components and their inter-relationships.
HCAI 5313 Economic Aspects of Health Care Administration Application of economic concepts to the health care sector. Demand and supply, elasticity, health insurance, regulation, competition, and cost-effective analysis. Emphasis on use of economic analysis for strategic planning. Emphasis is on sources and uses of health care information for decision-making and quantitative analysis using microcomputers. . Operations Management Introduction to systems analysis and selected operations research techniques as applied to problem solving and decision making in health care organizations.