Health Care Administration – Top Online Degrees and Courses

Healthcare administrators are responsible for office tasks like scheduling, benefit management, payroll management, and office finance responsibilities. The field of healthcare administrators is undergoing a boom, as there is a great demand for these types of personnel in hospital, medical practices, emergency clinics, government agencies, private industry, research groups, MNCs, relief organizations and international organizations.

The specific roles of a medical administrator can vary with his position but it is a fact beyond doubt that this medical profession definitely has a future. Healthcare administrators in large medical concerns undertake the management of clinical activities like nursing, surgery, therapy, medical records, and health information.

In smaller medical centers, they look into the details of daily managerial activities like establishing and implementing policies, objectives, and procedures for their departments, evaluating personnel work and developing reports and budgets. Sometimes healthcare administrators are employed by a group of doctors for overseeing personnel matters, billing and collection, budgeting, planning, equipment outlays, and patient flow.

According to an estimate, the 283,500 million medical and health services manager jobs of 2008 will go up at a remarkable 16% within the next ten years. To deliver the increasing responsibilities ascribed to a healthcare administrator, one can excel in this field after acquiring an Associate’s, Bachelor’ or even Master’s degree in healthcare administration.

With multiple flexible distance degree options available, it is not difficult to carry on with an online degree program while continuing one’s job in a medical office or facility. The highest tenth percentile of medical and health services managers earned over $137,800 in most recent reports from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Employment & Wages database.

Featured Healthcare Administration Schools

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  Campus

  Carrington College California Online

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  • Health Care Administration

  

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  Campus

  Strayer University Online

  Program

  • Health Services Administration

  • Master of Health Services Administration

  • Business Administration: Health Services Administration Concentration

  

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  Campus

  Ashford University Online

  Program

  • BA/Health Care Studies/No Concentration

  • BA/Health Care Administration- No specialization

  • BA/Health Care Studies/Health Studies

  • BA/Health Informatics

  • BA/Health Care Studies/Health Care Administration

  • BA/Health and Wellness

  • BA/Health Care Administration/Long-Term Care Management

  • MA/Health Care Administration

  

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  Campus

  Allen Service Center, Allen, TX

  National American University Online

  Program

  • Medical Administrative Assistant

  • Health Information Technology

  • Medical Staff Services Management, A.A.S.

  • Health Care Management, B.S.

  • Master of Mgmt./Health Care Admin.

  • Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S.

  

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  Campus

  George Washington University Online

  Program

  • Healthcare MBA (HCMBA)

  

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  Campus

  Performance Training Institute

  Program

  • Medical Office and Administrative Specialist with Billing and Coding

  

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  Campus

  Urbana University Online

  Program

  • Bachelor of Science in Business Management w/ major in Healthcare Administration

  

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  Campus

  American InterContinental University

  Program

  • Bachelor's (BBA) - Healthcare Management

  • MBA - Healthcare Management

  

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  Campus

  Kaplan University Online

  Program

  • AAS in Medical Office Management

  • AAS in Health Information Technology

  • BS in Health Care Administration

  • BSIT/ Information Systems Track - Health Informatics

  • Master of Health Care Administration

  • Master of Science in Nursing - Family Nurse Practitioner

  • Master of Science in Nursing - Adult Gerontology Practitioner

  • MPA - Health Care Management

  • MBA - Health Care Management

  • MSM - Health Care Management

  • MSN - Nurse Administrator

  • MSN - Nurse Educator

  • MSN - Nurse Informatics

  • RN to MS in Nursing

  • MS in Nursing

  • RN to BS in Nursing

  

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  Campus

  UOP

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  • AA/Health Care Admin./Medical Records

  • AA/Health Care Administration

  • BS in Health Administration/Health Management

  • BS in Health Administration/Health Information Systems

  • BS in Health Administration/Long Term Care

  • BS in Health Administration/Emergency Management

  • Master of Health Admin./Informatics

  • MS in Nursing/Informatics

  • Health Care Informatics Cert. (Bachelor's degree Req.)

  • Master of Health Administration

  • Master of Health Admin./Gerontology

  • MS/Master of Health Administration

  • Master of Health Admin./Education

  • Doctor of Health Administration