Course Description
Understand the basics of the healthcare industry, including the current policy environment, the most common payment, and delivery models, revenue cycle, supply chain, and labor management.
- Identify healthcare regulatory organizations
- Recognize the metrics government regulators require healthcare providers to report
- Comprehend how value-based care impacts healthcare and drives policy
- Explain the three most prevalent delivery models
- Recognize and describe the four most prominent payment models
- Describe the process of healthcare billing
- Explain the use of revenue cycle metrics
- Recognize similarities and differences in how five main hospital types handle revenue
- Understand hospital supply management
- Explain labor management and occupancy
- Explain how nursing ratios, FTE staffing, and productivity ratios work in labor management
- Describe how licensed beds, staffed beds, and critical census are used to measure a hospital’s maximum occupancy limit
- List how the daily census, occupancy rate, and patient dates are used to calculate occupancy
- Explain the importance of tracking utilization statistics
- List the hospital areas where utilization is particularly important (ED and imaging)
4 modules | 5 CLUs
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