This 3-day comprehensive workshop on Healthcare Management focuses on the economics and financial aspect of health care. The workshop includes: financial management, cost benefit analysis, and cost effectiveness. The workshop will discuss the American Health Care system; it will compare public and private hospitals and the trend in conversion and changes in hospital ownership from public/not-for-profit to for-profit ownership (privatization). Hospital payment systems and differences between economic and accounting profit will be discussed. The workshop will provide health care managers and health policy makers with in-depth practical knowledge of the foundations and recent trends in health economics and finance issue related to improving the health care delivery in their respective organizations. An empirical research study published by the workshop presenter will be discussed.