| HCM 193 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Introduction to U.S. Healthcare Systems |
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A survey of the American Health Care System that
examines the elements related to the organization,
delivery, financing and planning of health services.
3 Class Hours
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| HCM 194 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Healthcare Financing |
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This course will present the United States' health care
system from a cost perspective. Students examine the
history of health care costs in the U.S., the nature of
competition, the characteristics of the market for medical
services that influence competition, and the implications
of these factors on the health care sector of
our economy. Special emphasis will be placed on the
most current legislation and administrative proposals/
enactments.
3 Class Hours; Prerequiste: HCM 193 or permission
of instructor.
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| HCM 195 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Managed Health Delivery Systems |
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Managed Health Delivery Systems is designed to
engage students in a learning process about the intricacies
of managed care. It will provide a core of basic
information about managed care in the United States
- history, promises and shortcomings. In addition,
this course will focus on managerial parameters of
managed care. Strategies for marketing services,
physician recruitment and price quality competition will
be presented in the context of the new market place
realities. Finally, consumer health behavior and utilization
dynamics will be discussed and evaluated from
the standpoint of their practical rather than theoretical
significance.
3 Class Hours; Prerequisite: HCM 193 or permission
of instructor.
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| HCM 196 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Healthcare Ethics |
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Health care ethics is designed for health care professionals
and students planning to enter the health care
field. It offers participants the chance to understand
health care ethics. Some topics covered in the course
will include: autonomy in long-term care settings and
withdrawing fluids and nutrition, euthanasia, and
physician assisted suicide (medicide); HIV, reproductive
rights, allocating health care resources, institutional
missions, and obligations, competition and entrepreneurship
in health care, and rationing.
3 Class Hours
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| HCM 197 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Economics of Health & Medical Care |
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Economics of Health and Medical Care is designed
for students that seek an understanding of the tools,
vocabulary, and way of thinking about economics as it
is applied to decision making in the delivery of health
services, administration, and policy. The basic methods
of micro-economics will be emphasized as tools
to help individuals, organizations, and policy makers,
make better decisions about health care in the United
States.
3 Class Hours; Prerequisite HCM 193 and HCM
194.
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| HCM 198 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Long-Term Care |
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Long-term care will be studied in its current and
dynamic environment. Students will learn how longterm
care has evolved in the United States. Specific
emphasis will be placed on levels of care, payment
systems, social and economic concerns, current leg-
* Taught evenings only and when enrollment permits.
† Carries separate grades for laboratory and lecture.
‡ Combined lecture-laboratory course. Final grade
depends on successful completion of both parts.
islative initiatives, and the future needs of our expanding
long-term care population.
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