These guides are resources for aspiring and current healthcare administration professionals. They include scholarship databases, salary tables, conference schedules, and lists of the top degrees and careers in this field.
July 26, 2024
Congressional leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate unloaded blistering criticisms at Change Healthcare’s parent company UnitedHealth Group during a pair of hearings on Capitol Hill in May 2024. At issue was UnitedHealth’s management of the February cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare.
April 30, 2024
Although students in MHA and healthcare MBA programs learn a vast assortment of managerial strategies, it’s unlikely that any of these programs would have taught them how to manage through the kind of catastrophic cyberattack that shut down Change Healthcare—and much of the U.S. healthcare industry.
April 16, 2024
Most MHA and healthcare MBA students who interview for internships and jobs with county medical centers and other state and local hospitals expect that they would work for such institutions as public employees following an offer. But if such facilities follow the controversial lead of California’s largest public healthcare district, public/private distinctions like those might soon become a lot more complicated.
March 22, 2024
In the first article of this series, we looked at how the U.S. healthcare sector is measured, including the entities responsible and their methodology. This piece details each activity that comprises the enormous U.S. healthcare sector. We can group these into two major categories: healthcare services and goods, and public and private spending for healthcare and related initiatives. These categories can have their size measurably impacted by three powerful forces: population growth, healthcare inflation, and technological advances.
February 16, 2024
Healthcare is currently the country’s largest employer and jobs in healthcare are projected to be among the fastest-growing over the next decade. As the industry grows, so does the opportunity for a new career path.
February 2, 2024
Alongside HHS and still within the Department of Commerce, one finds the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The BEA is responsible for producing economic statistics in general. They contribute to measuring healthcare spending as part of their calculation of GDP as a whole—the healthcare sector just happens to entail one-fifth of that total amount. They coordinate closely with NHEA and CMS on these calculations.
January 23, 2024
In late 2015, nearly 200 governments worldwide signed a landmark action plan known as the Paris Agreement. After decades of blame-shifting, disorganization, and avoidance, there was finally a formal acknowledgment of the shared nature of climate change and a unified effort toward tackling the mounting crisis.
January 16, 2024
Case competitions deliver outstanding opportunities for healthcare administration students to showcase their skills and knowledge—so much so that students might feel surprised when they first learn about all the value these events offer.
December 12, 2023
The debate over whether healthcare should be treated as a business or a right has gone on for decades. Both sides have a similar end goal, and that is for our nation to boast a healthy population of generally productive individuals without bankrupting itself in the process. The disagreement is mostly in how to achieve the goal.