Healthcare Management

Our Online Business Degree in Healthcare Management is designed to provide students with a solid foundation in the business and industry knowledge to help students prepare to pursue opportunities to work as a non-medical healthcare professional in hospitals, long-term care facilities, insurance companies and other types of organizations.

An online BBA in Healthcare Management program can help you learn how to:

• Recognize the management issues relevant to non-medical healthcare professionals such as the environment of care, performance improvement, risk assessment and managing diverse work-forces in healthcare
• Use principles of finance, accounting and management to successfully coordinate operations and personnel in a healthcare environment
• Identify and manage potential ethical and legal conflicts in today's healthcare systems

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For an online BBA in Healthcare Management, your classes may include:

Risk Management

The course deals with uncertainties of outcome resulting from the financial market and the strategies that enable an organization to manage the risk associated with it. Topics include identifying major financial risks such as interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk, credit, commodity, and operational risks, how they are measured and global initiatives in financial risk management.

Survey of Healthcare Management

This course explores management issues in healthcare such as the environment of care, performance improvement, risk assessment, and managing diverse workforces in healthcare.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare

This course is designed to provide a working knowledge of law and ethics in a wide variety of healthcare topics, enabling students to deal with common legal and practical problems facing patients, their families, practitioners, caregivers, and society within the healthcare industry. Students must possess a basic knowledge of ethics and the law as it applies to their areas of responsibility.

Healthcare Finance

This course covers an analysis and evaluation of the economic, financial and payment environment of the healthcare consumer, provider, institution and the different organizations found in the healthcare industry. These areas will be integrated and are designed to provide a complete understanding of the managed care organization's economic, financial and payment objectives to provide health services to all healthcare clients.

Healthcare Information Systems

This course is designed to assist healthcare students in understanding principles of analysis, design, evaluation, selection, acquisition, and utilization of information systems in the healthcare organization. A focus on technical detail on computer hardware, software, networks, and data management is included to help the student to become conversant with modern information technology and its use in healthcare organizations.

Healthcare Resource Allocation and Policy Making

This course focuses on the impact healthcare policy has on resource allocation. Students will have the opportunity to develop a better understanding of the public policy formulation and modification processes in addition to an awareness of critical issues in American health policy impacting healthcare managers to balance costs, quality, and access to care in various settings.

Program Capstone

The emphasis in this course is on applying and synthesizing concepts and techniques from all previous business/specialization courses. The class sessions are designed to familiarize students with the many dimensions of business, with special emphasis on the area of specialization.

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Course content subject to change.

From grants to military service to transfer credits, see the variety of ways you can save time and money on your online BBA in Healthcare Management at AIU:

• Scholarships & Grants - AIU offers a number of institutional scholarships and grants that can help eligible students offset the program cost and help reduce out of pocket costs
• Reduced Military Tuition Rate – AIU Online offers a 45% tuition reduction to active military undergraduate students and a 20% tuition reduction to active military graduate students, including members of the Reserves and National Guard
• Transfer Credit – AIU’s transfer-friendly credit policy lets you transfer in up to 75% of the qualifying credits needed toward your degree
• Prior Learning Credit – You can receive credits for past college courses, qualifying military service, or eligible work experience

For more information, review the AIU guides below:

• Financial Aid Guide: Our guide to financial aid can answer your initial questions and help you prepare to apply for financial aid
• Scholarships and Grants Guide: Learn about the scholarships and grants offered by AIU along with details about eligibility
• Transfer Credit Guide: This guide explores how to transfer your credits from other schools—and earn college credit for your eligible past work and qualifying military experience

This business program is programmatically accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).