Health Care Concentration

MGT 653  Managed Care Organization and Finance
Analysis of managed care with emphasis on organizational models and financing mechanisms.  The evolution of corporate health care and managed care is traced and contrasted with traditional health care models and indemnity insurance.

MGT 682  Health Care Law
Explores the major laws affecting health care in the United States.  The systems from which laws flow are studied and the interaction of professional standards and legal prescriptions are examined.  The case study approach is used to examine situations which emphasize definitions, assessments and behaviors which affect quality improvement and minimize risk of liability.

MGT 670  Community Focused Health Systems
Analysis of the need for and the methods required to achieve an integrated community-focused healthcare system.  Examination of characteristics of the challenges to emerging community health systems and the elements of successful alliances in community based integrated health programs.

MGT 648  Health Care Policy
Examination of ways in which health care services are organized and delivered, the influences on health care public policy decisions, factors that determine the allocation of health care resources and the establishment of priorities and the relationship of health care costs to measurable benefits.