Healthcare Bookkeeping: From Charge Capture to Financial Reporting

Bookkeeping in the healthcare industry involves more than recording routine transactions. This course explores how financial activity flows through healthcare organizations, from patient encounters and charge capture to billing, collections, adjustments, and general ledger reporting. It highlights the unique challenges created by multiple payers, contractual allowances, insurance denials, patient responsibility, refunds, and system-based reporting.

The course also covers key operational bookkeeping areas outside the revenue cycle, including accounts payable workflows, medical supply inventory, payroll considerations, fixed assets, capital projects, and month-end close procedures. Through practical examples and healthcare-focused scenarios, learners will see how bookkeeping supports accurate financial records and meaningful reporting in a clinical environment.