WK1AC

Required Resources

Required Text

1. Cleverley, W., Song, P., & Cleverley, J. (2011).  Essentials of health care finance (7th ed).  Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.

· Chapter 1: Financial Information and the Decision-Making Process

· This chapter discusses the importance of finance and financial information in healthcare organizations, explains the users and users or financial information and summarizes the common ownership forms of healthcare organization.

· Chapter 2: Billing and Coding for Health Services

· This chapter focuses on revenue cycle including medical coding, charge masters, two major bill types and the role played by claims editing.

· Chapter 3: Financial Environment of Healthcare Organizations

· This chapter discusses factors influencing the financial viability of a healthcare organization such as financial environment, major reimbursement methods and describes major aspects of Medicare benefits along with Medicare reimbursement methods to major types of providers.

LearnScape Simulation 

1. Jones & Bartlet Learning. Healthcare Finance LearnScape [Access Code]. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Recommended Resources

Article

 

1. The health care law and you (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://healthlawanswers.aarp.org

· This web page includes questions that will help give you information that describes how the health care law works for you and your family.

Textbook PowerPoint Presentations

1. Chapter 1 Financial Information and the Decision-Making Process

2. Chapter 2 Billing and Coding for Health Services

3. Chapter 3 Financial Environment of Healthcare Organizations

Websites

1. Claim scrubber (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/claim+scrubber

2. Health care financial management association (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (http://www.hfma.org/)

· This website directs students to Health care Financial Management Association which contains current events, publications, policies and issues that will benefit students in this course.

3. Pulley, J. (2008, November 13). The claims scrubbers (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Retrieved from http://www.govhealthit.com/news/claims-scrubbers