This six course program is designed to provide health care professionals with the applied management and decision making skills necessary to manage today's complex multi-physician practice groups. Students will lean sound financial management skills, how to evaluate current trends, and how to design, implement, and evaluate future programs and policies. The certificate program's Internet availability allows professional who are not within reach of one of our campus programs to gain the essential knowledge and skills to successfully manage the group practice environment. 

Eighteen credits are awarded to students who hold undergraduate degrees. A health care professional how has not yet completed an undergraduate degree, but has completed a minimum of 60 credit hours, may take these courses as a non matriculated student.

Required Courses

• MH 601 Managed Care Administration for the Group Practice Setting
• MH 602 Financial Management of Group Practice
• MH 603 Systems Analysis & Information Systems Management for Group Practice
• MH 319 Health Care Reimbursement Policies and Strategies

• MM 217 Fundamental of Accounting in the Nonprofit Environment
• MR 300 Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
• MH 605 Strategic Planning for Practice Groups
• MH 604 Physician Compensation
• MH 362 Management Information Systems