| Health Management & Policy |
HMP 810 - Financial Management for Clinicians
Credits:
3.00
Includes basic elements of health care financial management
and cost accounting, including cost concepts and product
costing, budgeting, and variance analysis with an emphasis
on the departmental level of health care organizations.
Contains an overview of basic principles of accounting,
focusing on the balance sheet and statement of revenues and
expenses to include their analysis using the tools of ratio
analysis. Concludes with the basic concepts of capital
project analysis and health care reimbursement. Note: This
course is not part of the M.H.A. sequence. Prereq:
enrollment in nursing master's program; HMP majors
not allowed. Permission.
HMP 900 - Health Care in the United States
Credits:
3.00
Identification and examination of elements that comprise the
health care system in the United States. Analysis of
interaction between health organizations with political,
economic, and other social systems.
HMP #901 - Health Economics
Credits:
3.00
Application of economic concepts and principles to the
study of health services; emphasis on the financing and
delivery of personal medical care systems.
HMP #903 - Health Care Planning
Credits:
3.00
Theoretical and historical foundations of health planning;
the relationship of health planning and regulation;
application of planning methods; and use of strategic
planning and its relationship to marketing. Prereq:
permission.
HMP #907 - Managed Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Discussion of the historical antecedents of managed health
care; exploration of current techniques directed at
controlling health care costs.
HMP 910 - Epidemiology
Credits:
3.00
Distribution and determinants of disease, illness, and
health in the community. Community health and illness
measures, status, and data. Applications to health services
management.
HMP #920 - Organization Theory in Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Application of organization theory and behavior to health
organizations. Motivation and leadership, work group
dynamics, communications, and negotiations within the
health care organization as an open system; concentrates on
topics involving organizational design, change, and
innovation.
HMP 921 - Managing Health Services
Credits:
3.00
The role and function of the manager, governance, and the
management of operations in health care organizations.
Determinants of management strategy and action.
HMP #924 - Human Resources Management in Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Role of human resources management in meeting goals in
health care organizations, functions of human resources
management, organization of personnel activities and staff,
relationship of managers to personnel administration staff
and activities.
HMP 932 - Health Care Reimbursement
Credits:
3.00
Analysis and discussion of payment techniques used by
third-party payers to pay for services rendered to insured
or program beneficiaries by health care organizations and
individual providers.
HMP #940 - Health Law and Ethics
Credits:
3.00
Legal and ethical issues confronting health services
managers. Topics include corporate liability, anti-trust,
contract and tort law, labor law, models of ethical
decision-making, analysis of computing organizational and
professional interests, values and responsibilities. Prereq:
HMP 900 and HMP 910; or permission.
HMP #960 - Advanced Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Discussion of current topics in selected areas of health
management and policy.
HMP #975 - Praxis
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
An applied experience consisting of field study and the
development of management or policy case studies and
supporting analysis to explore the relationship between
theory and professional practice. Cr/F. IA (Continuous
grading).
HMP 995 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Directed readings and other activities to explore a specific
topic related to health management and policy. May be
repeated to a maximum of 12 credits. Prereq: permission.