The seat at the strategy table is a finance seat.
The CHFP and CRCR are how healthcare finance professionals prove they can run the business — not just report on it. Start with a free practice quiz and find out exactly where you stand before you spend a dollar or an evening studying.
The quiz is free, takes minutes, and scores you live. No login, no credit card.
Why CHFP and CRCR move finance careers.
Healthcare finance is where margin meets mission — and the leaders who can speak both languages get the bigger rooms. HFMA's credentials are the recognized way to prove it.
Credibility beyond the spreadsheet
The CHFP signals that you understand the full business of health care — payment models, risk, capital, cost structures — not just the close calendar. It's the difference between presenting the numbers and shaping the decision.
The revenue cycle standard
The CRCR has become the baseline credential inside revenue cycle teams — many organizations certify entire departments. If you work the revenue cycle, it's the fastest way to stand out inside it.
A signal sponsors understand
Promotion committees and CFOs know what these letters mean. Certification is one of the few career moves that's visible on paper, durable on a resume, and commonly reimbursable under professional development.
Diagnose before you study.
One honest note: HFMA bundles its certifications into membership, so the exam itself runs through hfma.org. The smart first move costs nothing — take the free practice quiz, see your real baseline, and decide from evidence instead of anxiety.
Take the free practice quiz →Live scoring. Instant results. Keep them even if you never come back.
Scenario practice, oriented to the real exam.
The CHFP doesn't test recall — it tests judgment across the business of health care. The platform at hfmaprep.thedutchmentor.com trains exactly that, with scenario-based questions and full reasoning on every option.
The Business of Health Care
The financial ecosystem you're being tested on — and the one you work in every day:
- Payment models and how risk actually moves
- Cost, capital, and margin concepts in context
- The stakeholders, incentives, and regulations that shape the numbers
Operational Excellence
Where the exam separates readers from operators — applying the knowledge:
- Case-style scenarios that mirror exam format
- Operational decisions argued option by option
- Why the right answer wins and each distractor loses
Founding-cohort pricing for the first 25 finance professionals.
No "under review." One number. One cohort window. After the first 25 seats fill across both CHFP and CRCR, the rate moves to $899. The free practice quiz is and always will be free.
Built by an executive who has owned the P&L.
Walter Dusseldorp, MBA, FACHE is a hospital executive with 30 years in healthcare leadership, including responsibility for $645M+ service lines — which means the budgets, payment models, and operational trade-offs on the CHFP blueprint are the same ones he has defended in real boardrooms. He mentors finance professionals on the CHFP track the same way he coaches FACHE candidates: scenarios first, judgment over memorization.
Finance credentials are taught here the way the work is done: as decisions with consequences, not vocabulary lists.
Full bio →Take the Field Manual with you.
The Pure Leadership Power™ Field Manual — the condensed methodology behind every Dutch Mentor program, including the daily checklist Walter uses with his $645M-service-line leaders. Read it in 20 minutes. Joins the founding-cohort waitlist — you'll get the manual now plus a one-time email if seats reopen.
- The Pure Leadership Power™ daily checklist (1 page)
- How to run the Friday Audit on your week (4 questions)
- The "Promotion Gap" diagnostic + 30-day fix
- Walter's three rules for difficult conversations