Learning path
In this industry-focused learning path, you’ll build the specialized financial and accounting skills needed to thrive in healthcare — one of the most complex and resilient industries today. If you’re looking to break into healthcare, win more clients, or take your finance career to the next level, this series is for you.
17 courses·44 NASBA CPE
Most courses included. The following courses on this learning path require the Premium planHealthcare Mergers and Acquisitions3.0 CPEHealthcare Taxation & Compliance3.0 CPEHealthcare Fraud Prevention and Detection3.0 CPESee the Premium plan
Three reasons the specialty holds its value through a cycle that thins other practices.
Healthcare organizations need finance professionals who understand their unique landscape.
Healthcare continues to expand, even in economic downturns.
Specialized expertise commands higher salaries and consulting rates.
All seventeen courses, in the four levels the path is built around. Every course stands on its own and earns its own NASBA CPE — start at the top or go straight to the one you need.
The industry, its regulators, and how a provider gets paid.
Where the money comes from, and why it is late.
HIPAA, Medicare, Medicaid, and what each one obliges you to report.
ASC 606 against a payer contract that pays a fraction of the charge.
The denial, traced back to the keystroke that caused it.
Costing, analysis, budgeting and the revenue cycle in practice.
What a procedure actually costs, once you allocate honestly.
Days in A/R, and the four other numbers a board actually asks about.
A budget built on predicted patient volume, not last year plus three.
Intake to final payment, one handoff at a time.
The close, in an organization that bills before it knows the price.
Deals, risk and tax for senior finance roles.
Diligence on a target whose receivables may not be collectible.
The risks that only exist because a payer sits between you and the cash.
Tax-exempt status, UBIT, and the filings that keep both intact.
Value-based care, technology, ESG, Excel and fraud.
Capitalize or expense, on an EHR implementation that never quite ends.
Revenue that depends on an outcome you cannot invoice.
ESG, for an organization whose social impact is the product.
The dashboard the CFO asks for on Monday, built on Friday.
The schemes, and the controls that would have caught them.
Your instructor
Michael is an accounting and information security professional. He is also an Adjunct Professor at several higher education institutions, where he is responsible for teaching various accounting and information technology courses.
Michael earned his MBA in Accounting and B.S. in Accounting / Accounting Information Systems from Canisius University. Additionally, Michael is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Michael is a current member of the NYCPA’s Education Committee and has been an Advisory Board Member for the Academy of Finance (AOF) since 2020.
Alongside the path
Our healthcare podcast takes the subjects of the path into real cases, from a collapsed startup to the deals that should never close.
Listen to the showMost courses included. The following courses on this learning path require the Premium planHealthcare Mergers and Acquisitions3.0 CPEHealthcare Taxation & Compliance3.0 CPEHealthcare Fraud Prevention and Detection3.0 CPESee the Premium plan
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