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Overview

Healthcare organizations need effective strategies to generate revenue through patient care services, insurance reimbursements, and other means

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11 hours

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Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Evaluate investment opportunities
  • Build financial models for business planning
  • Develop business strategies based on financial models
More about this course
  • Introduction to Healthcare Finance equips healthcare leaders with fundamental finance tools and concepts necessary for effective collaboration with experts and managing organizations
  • In this course, you'll explore healthcare pricing, investment valuation, and pharmaceutical research and development costing
  • You will consider the motivation, consequences, and valuation techniques essential to helping you make strategic decisions and engage in effective bargaining in healthcare mergers and acquisitions
  • Get an inside look at the variations and complexities of healthcare pricing, trade-offs between financial risk and performance incentives, and the bargaining processes vital to pricing strategies and organizational viability
  • Financial valuation techniques, such as net present value and internal rate of return, are explored alongside financial risk considerations and opportunity costs
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Introduction to Healthcare Finance
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Curriculum

An Introduction to Healthcare Pricing

Welcome and Introduction

Week 1 Introduction

Introduction to Health Services Pricing

Healthcare Price Variation

Hospital Markups and Prices

Bargaining and Healthcare Prices

Pricing and Medical Costs

Implications of Price Transparency in Healthcare

Course Syllabus

Meet Your Instructor

Pre-Course Survey

RAND Reports on Healthcare Pricing

Ungraded Knowledge Check

Ungraded Knowledge Check

Week 1 Graded Assessment

Modeling Time, Risk, and Return to Value Investments

Week 2 Introduction

Time, Risk, and Return

Net Present Value

Introduction to Demo 1: Future Value

Demo 1: Future value

Internal Rate of Return

Introduction to Demo 2: Present Value and the Internal Rate of Return

Demo 2: Present Value and the Internal Rate of Return

Introduction to Demo 3: Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return Applied

Demo 3: Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return Applied

Introduction to Time, Risk, and Return

Spreadsheets Used in Week 2 Demos

Cost of Capital Lexicon

Ungraded Knowledge Check

Week 2 Graded Assessment

Measuring The Cost of Pharmaceutical Research & Development (R&D)

Week 3 Introduction

Introduction to Demo: Financial Model of the Cost of Pharmaceutical R&D

Demo: Financial Model of the Cost of Pharmaceutical R&D

Modeling the Cost of Pharmaceutical R&D

Critiques of DiMasi et al. (2016): Part 1

Critiques of DiMasi et al. (2016): Part 2

Introduction to Demo: Alternative Financial Valuations

Demo: Alternative Financial Valuations

DiMasi et al. (2016), Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: New estimates of R&D cost

Spreadsheets Used in Cost of Pharmaceutical R&D Demo

Spreadsheets used in Alternative Financial Valuation Demo

Ten Challenges in the Prescription Drug Market—and Ten Solutions

Ungraded Knowledge Check

Ungraded Knowledge Check

Week 3 Graded Assessment

Financial Models of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Week 4 Introduction

M&A-Part 1

M&A-Part 2

M&A-Part 3

M&A-Part 4

M&A Valuation- Part 1

M&A Valuation- Part 2

M&A Valuation- Part 3

Introduction to Demo 1A- M&A Valuation

Demo 1A- M&A Valuation: Learning Objectives and Model Assumptions

Introduction to Demo 1B- M & A Valuation

Demo 1B- M&A Valuation: The Target Hospital's Perspective

Introduction to Demo 1C- M&A Valuation the Acquirer's Perspective

Demo 1C- M&A Valuation: The Acquirer’s Perspective

Introduction to Demo 2: Bargaining and Information

Demo 2: Bargaining and Information

Course Summary

The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices And Health Spending On The Privately Insured

Spreadsheets Used in M&A Valuation Demos (1A, 1B, 1C)

Spreadsheets used in Bargaining and Information Demo

Post-Course Survey

Ungraded Knowledge Check

Ungraded Knowledge Check

Ungraded Knowledge Check

Week 4 Graded Assessment

Introduction to Healthcare Finance
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    May 25, 2024
    Course Commencement Date

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