Is anyone studying in a healthcare program?

Hi Greg;
Sounds like you've been a bit busy.

I'm an MBA/CPA for a healthcare organization with close to 1,000 docs.

Healthcare administration is interesting because of the variety of ways that the organizations run. The production-based systems usually have very few physician administrators compared to RVU/RVU proxy systems. Very few physicians in our organization have an MBA or MHA, even at the administrative level.

I'm interested to know a couple things:

1. What specific administration area you are looking to get into? Outside of general management, there are alot of good opportunities if you can specialize in one area such as reimbursement, privacy/HIPAA, infomatics, QA, etc.

2. Where you are doing your residency, what is the administrative structure? Is it physican-run, physician-led, or purely administration? Always interested to hear how other folks live.

 

I am not Greg, but my clinic is a production-based system. Our CEO is a non-physician with a MHA. He reports to our Board, who sets strategic management and is the ultimate management authority of the clinic. Our eight member Board of Directors, with seven physicians and one attorney, is elected by the physician stockholders.

The three physicians on our senior management team are the Board chair, Medical Director and Associate Medical Director. I report to the Associate Medical Director and to the CEO. My clinic has about 1500 employees, and all of them consider themselves my boss!

 

I am about to undertake my first DL program - Family Nurse Practitioner at Indiana State University. So far I've been impressed by the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff.