Some 20 years ago, after years of teaching corporate finance and writing related textbooks and casebooks, I began teaching healthcare financial management in the University of Florida’s Master of Health Administration (MHA) program. The move prompted me to write my first healthcare finance textbook, Understanding Health Care Financial Management. The book was designed for use in health services administration financial management courses in which students had prerequisite courses in both accounting and corporate finance. In general, such courses are case courses, so this book served primarily as a reference tool when working healthcare finance cases. In recent years, I expanded my healthcare finance teaching to include other courses in traditional,.
