HPM 221 Financing Healthcare in America

This course provides a basic understanding of health services financial management. We will begin with elementary accounting concepts and then graduate to cash flow analysis, risk, financial statements, capital investments, debt and equity financing, capital budgeting, and health care reimbursement models. The aim of this course will be to expose prospective health care manager and policymakers to accounting and finance theories, principles, concepts, and techniques most important to managers and policymakers in the health care industry.