Accounting: Healthcare

Gain Financial and Regulatory Expertise in Healthcare Accounting

Accounting in the healthcare sector requires navigating complex financial and regulatory challenges unique to the industry. At Emmanuel College, you can focus your accounting studies on healthcare while learning in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical and Academic Area.

You’ll gain classroom knowledge and hands-on experience through internships at top hospitals and healthcare organizations, preparing you to understand revenue recognition from patients, insurers, and government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. You’ll master regulatory compliance, including HIPAA, and develop the skills to manage costs, allocate resources, and assess service profitability.

Emmanuel’s healthcare accounting concentration equips you with the financial insight and regulatory expertise needed to excel in this essential industry.

The Curriculum

View the 2024-2025 Academic Catalog to find course titles, numbers and descriptions.

In addition to courses required to the management majors, students take 12 credits courses listed below. 

Requirements for Concentration

1. PHIL1205 Health Care Ethics (M) (ER)

2. ECON3113 Economics of Health Care

3. Choose one of the following:

  • ENGL3806 Health Communication
  • GPH1201 Perspectives on Public and Global Health (DM)
  • PSYCH2405 Health Psychology
  • SOC2123 Operations and Health Care Systems, Structures and Cultures
  • THRS2222 Social Justice and Global Health (RCT) (RICT) (SJ)
     

At the completion of the Accounting major, students will:

  1. Demonstrate professional values and ethical behavior in accordance with various codes of professional conduct while considering a broad range of stakeholders.
  2. Evaluate internal and external contributors’ impact on performance, governance, reporting, sustainability, and compliance.
  3. Predict outcomes and capitalize on the diverse skills and backgrounds within a team to optimize innovative problem solving.
  4. Demonstrate effective written and oral communication and accept personal responsibility for soliciting and managing the receipt of feedback.
  5. Integrate developed competencies and skill sets, and design strategies for managing conflicts faced by professionals in an increasingly complex and interdisciplinary workplace.
  6. Collect, store, process and analyze information to be shared with various stakeholders through the preparation and presentation of external and internal reports in accordance with professional standards.
  7. Appraise the world’s economic, social, cultural, and technological impact on accounting and business decision-making through the application of the liberal arts and sciences.
  8. Create opportunities to promote change, challenge assumptions, offer a different perspective, encourage experimentation, and strengthen positive thinking.
  9. Conduct research with professional skepticism, validate and analyze data for accuracy, uncover patterns and correlations, and provide visual context.

Related Programs

The School of Business & Management also offers a general Accounting major and a major in Management with a concentration in Health Care Management.