MPA
586
Healthcare Finance
Hours
3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab
Semester
Winter
Exploration of the background, stakeholders, principles, and complexity of the US healthcare payment system to give students insights into systems thinking, managerial concepts, market trends, and the overlay of government regulation and policy of a multi-trillion dollar industry that impacts nearly everyone.
Health insurance knowledge
Participate knowledgeably in an employer's health insurance decision
Policy challenges
Articulate public policy challenges in healthcare from multiple perspectives
Policy evaluation
Evaluate health policy proposals based on their merits and likely impact
Health insurance functional areas
Identify major functional areas of health insurance the management challenges associated with each
Policy statements
Negotiate and draft policy statements