HFMA Business of Health Care® (for CME)
Whether you are a clinician, physician, finance or health plan leader, nurse, therapist, dentist, or pharmacist, HFMA Business of Health Care® was designed to give you an essential understanding of the complex ecosystem your day-to-day operations are part of. That understanding can help you use your knowledge and skills more effectively to improve patient care and health outcomes.
As important, it can enable you to contribute to the critical conversations and decision-making that are changing the industry and how you work in it.
Participants who successfully complete the six-course sequence and the final evaluation of knowledge may qualify to earn continuing education credits. All participants who meet the program's requirement receive a course completion certificate - recognition they can use to advance in their career and demonstrate their commitment to excellence.
Title: HFMA Business of Health Care®
Original Release Date: 3/1/2016
Renewal Date: 4/1/2019
Expiration Date: 3/31/2020
You have access to this course for one year from purchase date
HFMA Business of Health Care online study materials PIM cost: $399
Estimated time to complete activity: 14 hours
Hardware and software needed to participate in the activity:
Operating Systems:
Windows versions XP and above, and MAC OS X 10.5 Leopard and above
Browsers:
Internet Explorer: We have officially supported IE 7 and up (although please note that Microsoft has itself warned against versions older than IE 8.0)
Mozilla Firefox: most recent two public versions
Chrome and Safari: more recent two public versions
eLearning Course Requirements:
Adobe Shockwave Player - http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/
Adobe Flash Player - http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Java - http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
For CME/CE questions, contact Postgraduate Institute for Medicine at www.pimed.com
The online course is hosted by Healthcare Financial Management Association and the exam is hosted by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine.
Provider costing to assess physician financial performance
Physician performance, both in terms of clinical quality and financial profitability, continues to be a key component of operational success in healthcare. Considering their work is often not only clinical, but also includes academic, research and administrative responsibilities, how does one accurately and completely assess these activities and determine the cost of care provided by physicians? Drawing on the experience of St. Joseph's Health in Paterson, New Jersey. This webinar explores the unique aspects of provider costing and decision support to fully analyze and report physician financial performance.
A&F: Financial Reporting: Revenue and Assets
This course explains the different categories of healthcare enterprises and the process to record revenues from varying sources. It discusses reporting requirements for restricted and unrestricted net assets, and explains how cash and cash equivalents are reported, including handling of agency funds and credit risks. This course describes the accounting and reporting of investments in investment securities that have readily determinable fair values and all investments in debt securities. It explains how healthcare organizations should account for and report property and equipment, supplies, and other assets.
A&F: Financial Reporting: Relationships and Procedures
This course explains the impact on financial reporting of various relationships between a reporting healthcare organization and other entities in which it has control and/or economic interest. It also explains how equity transfers between related not-for-profit entities are handled. The course describes the basic elements of financial statements for healthcare organizations. It also explains how accounts receivable are recorded for payments from third-party payers, and for uncompensated care vs. bad debt. The course explains the two different methods of rate setting and describes how pledges from donors are accounted for and reported.