The curriculum

Education.

The Foundation course is here to get you started with the history and structure of American healthcare, then sixteen Paths delve deep into particular parts of the business.

Start here

Foundations.

How the American healthcare system took its present shape, and the apparatus that history produced.

1 module · about 1 hour

Begin Foundations

01Origins40 min

Then specialize

Paths.

Each Path is self-contained and follows one situation from beginning to end. Take them in any order.

Path 01Fraud, Abuse and Physician CompensationMeridian Health, a 400-bed nonprofit system, recruits an interventional cardiologist away from a competing group. Each module tests one part of that arrangement against the rules. Coming soon
Path 02Business Valuation and TransactionsA consultant is engaged to value a five-physician cardiology practice, then carry it through diligence and sale to a regional system. Coming soon
Path 03Strategy, Physician Alignment and Service LinesA community system decides whether to build an orthopedic service line, and how to align the surgeons who would fill it. Coming soon
Path 04Value-Based CareA sixty-physician primary care group enters a Medicare ACO and discovers what two-sided risk actually demands of its operations. Coming soon
Path 05Coding, Documentation and ComplianceA newly hired compliance officer audits an employed physician group after a payer flags the distribution of its evaluation and management coding. Coming soon
Path 06Revenue CycleA single claim is followed from the moment the appointment is booked to the day the patient balance finally clears. Coming soon
Path 07Healthcare Real EstateA medical office building is taken from site selection through construction and leasing to a compliance audit of its physician tenants. Coming soon
Path 08Life Sciences Commercial OperationsA mid-size device manufacturer builds its speaker program and advisory board from nothing, under the fraud-and-abuse rules. Coming soon
Path 09Payer Operations and Managed CareA regional health plan is followed through one benefit year, from actuarial pricing and network build to claims, denials and appeals. Coming soon
Path 10Health IT, Data and AIA health system deploys ambient AI documentation across its medical group, and has to govern, validate and monitor it. Coming soon
Path 11Quality, Patient Safety and Process ImprovementA hospital responds to a rising central-line infection rate that is about to cost it a payment penalty. Coming soon
Path 12Workforce and Medical Staff AffairsA hospital staffs a new thirty-bed unit: credentialing, payer enrollment, contracts, ratios and the true cost of agency labour. Coming soon
Path 13Healthcare Law Beyond Fraud and AbuseA dermatology group expands into a state that prohibits the corporate practice of medicine, and must be restructured to do it. Coming soon
Path 14Capital, Treasury and Ownership StructuresA nonprofit health system finances a new patient tower, and the credit market delivers its verdict on the plan. Coming soon
Path 15Pharmacy and the Drug ChannelA single brand prescription is traced from manufacturer to patient, showing exactly where each dollar stops along the way. Coming soon
Path 16Settings Beyond the HospitalOne complex patient is followed across skilled nursing, inpatient rehabilitation, home health and hospice. Coming soon