Health Care Courses (HCM)

HCM 640. Health Care Ethics (2). This course provides health care managers with guidance in preventing and dealing with managerial and biomedical ethical problems, suggests substantive ethical principles and procedural methodologies by which managers can understand, analyze, and resolve ethical problems, encourages and aids managers to develop a personal ethic to guide their practice, and suggests ways to build ethically responsible health care organizations.

HCM 641. Health Law (2). Selected legal principles and their application to the health field. Legal aspects of corporate liability, medical malpractice, admission and discharge processes, medical staff bylaws, informed consent, nursing, patient's rights, medical records, and governmental regulation of personnel and health facilities.

HCM 643. Strategic Planning and Public Policy (2). Prerequisites: HCM 645, HCM 648, MBA 675. Methods for strategic planning and management of health services organizations. Techniques for determining strategies for unique services; integration of strategy, structure, and administrative systems will be presented. Policy-making process in the U.S. Review of forces influencing policy-making, legislative processes, and the evolution of U.S. health policy.

HCM 645. Health Insurance and Managed Care (2). This course will consider insurance payment mechanisms and alternative as well as risk management, patient-provider relationships, antitrust and health legislation. The section on managed care will cover organizational models, operational issues in developing a managed care network, implications of ownership (for profit vs. non-profit plans), actuarial issues, and the management of physician behavior.

HCM 646. Managing Healthcare Interfaces (2). Prerequisites: HCM 645, HCM 648, MBA 640. This course considers special challenges and opportunities for health services managers in working with physicians and other clinical professionals. Professional education and socialization processes and examination of ways to bring together clinical and administrative concerns will be reviewed.

HCM 648. The American Health Care System (2). This is a foundation course covering concepts, structures, functions and values which characterize contemporary health care systems in the U.S. This includes an overview of the components of the healthcare delivery system as well as an analysis of current healthcare issues.

HCM 649. Special Topics in Healthcare (1-3). This course offers opportunity for supervised individual or team research and analysis of healthcare issues and problems. Prior approval of the directing professor and the Associate Dean is required.