Healthcare Management II Microcredential
  • Type Learning
  • Level Foundational
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Healthcare Management II Microcredential

Issued by Jefferson Community College

This microcredential will enable students to demonstrate competency in various aspects of healthcare office management, with a focus on accounting and finance in the health care industry. Health Care Management 1 microcredential is not a pre-requisite for this. Students will earn ten college credit hours that may later be transferred to one of Jefferson's certificate or degree programs. Healthcare Management 2 courses are a perfect fit for JCC's Health Care Management AS degree program.

  • Type Learning
  • Level Foundational
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Skills

Earning Criteria

  • HCM 110, Intro to the US Health Care System - 3 credits. This course explores the US Health Care System. Focuses include historical development, current configuration & possible future directions. Includes study of health system development, key influencers, accessibility, financing, changing components & the effects of the system on patients, providers, government, insurers & society.
  • ACC 101, Accounting Principles - 4 credits. This course is designed to give an understanding of basic accounting principles and practices as they apply to the sole proprietorship. Special emphasis will be placed on: the theory of debits and credits; the accounting cycle; merchandise and service operations; prepaid expenses; unearned revenues and accruals; accounting systems; internal controls; cash; receivables; trading securities; inventory valuation and ethics in the accounting profession.
  • HCM 220, Healthcare Financing - 3 credits. This course addresses the systems and uses of accounting and financial planning in health care including planning and control of cost factors in the health care industry. This course provides a conceptual and practical knowledge of health care finance, which includes all sources of funding the various programs, third party payers, managed care contracts, and valuations that have an impact on the health care organization.