HCA 421 Financial & Eco. Aspects of Health Care
This course presents the fundamentals and analysis of healthcare financing. Basic functions of expenditures and sources of funding are emphasized. This course analyzes third party payment programs and reimbursement practices in the U.S. healthcare sector. Students will be able to understand and explain the major differences between private insurance and managed care systems and how policy reform impacts the healthcare sector.
3.0Credits
Prerequisites
BUA 210 Statistical Techniques for Research Data, MAT 122 Intro to Probability & Statistics or MAT 123 Introductory Statistics & Probability or ECO 201 Macroeconomics, FIN 301 Fundamentals of Managerial Finance, HCA 201 Intro to Health Care Administration,