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HMP 810 - Financial Management for Clinicians
Credits:
3.00
Includes basic elements of health care financial
management and cost accounting, including cost concepts
and product costing, budgeting, and variance analysis with
an emphasis on the departmental level of health care
organizations. Contains an overview of basic principles of
accounting, focusing on the balance sheet and statement of
revenues and expenses to include their analysis using the
tools of ratio analysis. Concludes with the basic concepts
of capital project analysis and health care reimbursement.
Prereq: enrollment in nursing master's program; HMP majors
and MBA students not allowed. Permission.
HMP 900 - Health Care in the United States
Credits:
3.00
Identification and examination of elements that comprise
the health care system in the United States. Analysis of
interaction between health organizations with political,
economic, and other social systems.
HMP 903 - Health Care Planning
Credits:
3.00
Theoretical and historical foundations of health planning;
the relationship of health planning and regulation;
application of planning methods; and use of strategic
planning and its relationship to marketing. Prereq:
permission.
HMP 910 - Epidemiology
Credits:
3.00
Distribution and determinants of disease, illness, and¿
health in the community. Community health and illness
measures, status, and data. Applications to health services
management.
HMP 921 - Managing Health Services
Credits:
3.00
The role and function of the manager, governance, and the
management of operations in health care organizations.
Determinants of management strategy and action.
HMP 932 - Health Care Reimbursement
Credits:
3.00
Analysis and discussion of payment techniques used byÿ¿
third-party payers to pay for services rendered to insured
or program beneficiaries by health care organizations and
individual providers.
HMP 940 - Health Law and Ethics
Credits:
3.00
Legal and ethical issues confronting health services›ÿ¿
managers. Topics include corporate liability, anti-trust,
contract and tort law, labor law, models of ethical
decision-making, analysis of computing organizational and
professional interests, values and responsibilities.
Prereq: HMP 900 and HMP 910; or permission.
HMP 960 - Advanced Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Discussion of current topics in selected areas of health
management and policy.
HMP 975 - Praxis
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
An applied experience consisting of field study and the
development of management or policy case studies and
supporting analysis to explore the relationship between
theory and professional practice. Cr/F. IA (Continuous
grading).
HMP 995 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Directed readings and other activities to explore að›ÿ¿
specific topic related to health management and policy.
May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits. Prereq:
permission.