Health Care Management and Finance

This course is designed to acquaint students with the basic concepts of health care administration, emphasizing financial administration. The course provides an overview of basic principles of accounting and financial management and their applications. The students will analyze problem sets that represent a practical application of financial administration principles as discussed in the course. These exercises will lay the analytic foundation for a final case study on a specific financial oral health issue. Topics covered include cost benefit and cost effective analyses, and break-even analyses using data provided by the instructor. 2nd sem.