MHA 522 Health Care Business Operations

This course explores the operations management and financial health of health care as a business. Common health care business operations include patient registration and certification, billing, insurance, collection, and materials management are covered in the course. Additionally the course examines health care business process engineering and optimization. This course also explores the logistics and supply chain management that health care businesses need to maintain in order to be efficient, effective, and profitable. Students will have opportunities to apply what they have learned through case studies and the development of a business operations plan for a health care service and/or product. Pre-requisite(s): Admission to the MHA program. MHA 500 and RES 510. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours