Basics of hospital management

Strategic hospital management

• The (legal) environment of hospital care and planning.
• Approach to strategic management.
• Goals, target system and control specifications.
• Strategic management tools such as competitive analysis, balanced scorecard, benchmarking, SWOT analysis.

Basics of hospital financing

• Legal foundations of dualism.
• Financing of operating costs via DRGs, care budgets, soon to be flat rates, etc.
• Investment subsidies.
• Financing in the outpatient sector: hybrid DRGs, AOP catalog, etc.
• Optional services.

Accounting and controlling in hospitals

• Accounting and annual financial statements according to KHBV.
• Cost accounting in hospitals: cost type, cost center and cost unit accounting as well as contribution margin accounting.
• DRG calculation, application of the InEK matrix.
• Operational controlling: profitability calculations, internal reporting, key performance indicator systems.

Revenue management

• Role of medical controlling.
• Control variables for revenue optimization.
• Budget negotiations and economic planning.

Operational hospital management

• Process management.
• Risk management.
• Quality management.
• Personnel management and personnel requirements planning.