Health Care Management

This is an overview of the contemporary health care system. It examines the historical antecedents, patients, providers, payers, and current health policies. It also provides an overview of the mission, environment, and organizational design of today's health services organizations. Finally, it describes and analyzes U.S. health insurance programs, including private and public insurers, health insurance demand, health plan types, premiums, and reimbursement systems.

This course provides an overview of the various health reporting systems that are in use and required by the federal government. It stresses the importance of accurate reporting and the role that these reporting systems play in disease and death prevention and containment. It also examines the business costs of such approaches.

This is a course that explores the most significant issues in health care today. It considers corporate theory from a health care perspective as well as consent to care, malpractice in contemporary America, health care negligence, and liability. Special attention is given to an examination of health care and taxation, legal problems facing providers and patients, and ethical issues in human reproduction, genetics, and death.

In this course, students will study the critical elements of contemporary health care management beginning with strategic planning, marketing, and information systems. The course will also examine other aspects of management as they relate to health care quality improvement methods and allied health professions such as human resource management for health care, communication management for health care, and process improvement techniques related to health care practice behavior in various settings.

In this course, students will study the critical elements of contemporary consumer health care management beginning with an understanding of JCAHO's interest in and support for patient, client, customer, and employee satisfaction through communication. The course will also examine the role of communication as it relates to health care quality improvement methods and allied health professions such as communication as a central feature of customer satisfaction, communication management to support health care consumerism, process improvement techniques related to health care practice behavior and the way these techniques communicated to practitioners, agents, and patients.

This course is a survey and a critical analysis of federal and state health policy processes. It focuses on the evaluation of health care outcomes and the effectiveness and efficiency of contemporary health services. Students analyze cases dealing with administrative and policy issues in health services including problem solving in ill-defined, multifaceted situations, operational health program evaluation models, and health planning documentation models.