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Healthcare Financial Management Association

These unique distance learning programs are designed to help you keep your healthcare related knowledge and skills right up-to-the-minute and to do so in your own office or home, whenever you wish.

Each MGI home study course contains Skill Development Exercises that can be e-mailed, mailed, or faxed to your personal instructor/partner who is ready to process your exercises and answer any questions you may have.

Price: $259.95 List/ $214.95 Prepaid

The Effective Patient Accounts Representative: If cash flow in hospitals and other healthcare facilities is to be maximized, effective Patient Accounts Representative training is a must. Even experienced clerical staff will benefit from another look at how to improve understanding and interaction with third party payors with whom they do business daily. The course covers in DETAIL the major third party payors such as Blue Cross, Medicaid, Medicare, and Commercial Insurances with emphasis on accuracy and error detection. It also covers examples of other programs that reimburse for healthcare services such as TRICARE/CHAMPUS and COBRA.
(Course no. H25, Time to complete: 18 hours, 9.0 Continuing Professional Education credit hours and 2.0 HFMA Founders Award Points)

Profitable Subacute Care - a Successful Survival Strategy: With the growing need to move patients through the continuum of care in the lowest cost setting successful subacute care is vital for the survival and success of healthcare institutions over the coming few years. In this course you'll learn how to do a financial analysis, not only of the subacute care services but also of the impact on the acute care side; you'll learn how to evaluate the available supply of subacute care patients; you'll learn to determine the percentage of patients admitted to hospital can potentially be discharged into a subacute care setting and from that the percentage of your total inpatient day volume; you'll learn how to determine what services you can profitably provide.
(Course no. H67, Time to complete: 18 hours, 9.0 Continuing Professional Education credit hours and 2.0 HFMA Founders Award Points)

Basics of Healthcare Finance: This comprehensive course covers topics dealing with fundamental principles of healthcare finance. Topics discussed include FTEs and units of service, applying standard costing, distinguishing between financial and managerial accounting, reading and analyzing healthcare organization income statements and balance sheets, healthcare organization budgets, analyzing variances, flexible budgeting, breakeven calculations, and departmental reports.
(Course no. H53, Time to Complete: 18 hours, 9.0 Continuing Professional Education credit hours and 2.0 HFMA Founders Award Points)

Successful Practice Management in a Capitated Environment: This course shows you how to adapt your practice under capitation. It discusses the concepts of risk and reward, examines patient access as the key to success under capitation, describes using your telephone system to enhance practice efficiency, shows how to maximize patient flow without compromising patient care or satisfaction, and discusses the value of patient summaries and how to use them.
(Course no. H11, Time to Complete: 18 hours, 9.0 Continuing Professional Education credit hours and 2.0 HFMA Founders Award Points)

Successful Capitation And Risk Sharing: If you are involved with a hospital, multi- provider system, physician hospital organization, or a physician group practice, this is a progam you can't afford to miss. This course includes an overview of capitation, introduces risk and uncertainty, teaches you to correctly assess your organizational readiness, and develop capitation prices. You will also learn about development and allocation of risk pools , managing your balance sheet, and managing the transition to capitation.
(Course no. H83, Time to Complete: 18 hours, 9.0 Continuing Professional Education credit hours and 2.0 HFMA Founders Award Points)

Total Quality Management in Healthcare: This course will give you a solid, managerial-level understanding of TQM (Total Quality Management) and CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement). You will learn about competing through quality, planning for quality in healthcare, process improvement in healthcare, specific tools for healthcare operations problem solving (ie: how to collect healthcare-related data, use Pareto charts, flow charts, scatter diagrams), and managing change in healthcare operations.
(Course no. H44, Time to Complete: 16 hours, 8.0 CPE credit hours and 16 HFMA Certification Maintenance Points)

Successful Pricing for Capitation: This course teaches you how to build a system that will help you develop, monitor, and manage a competitive pricing system. You'll learn the four basic components of external pricing, how to define precisely what it is you're pricing, the four models for capitation pricing, how to identify opportunities open to you under capitation, and how to identify the market forces that drive capitation.
(Course no. H15, Time to Complete: 18 hours, 9.0 Continuing Professional Education credit hours and 2.0 HFMA Founders Award Points)

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