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There is one required textbook for this class.
Book 1: Health Economics, 5th Edition, by Rexford E.
Santerre and Stephen P. Neun,Dryden Publishing: ISBN
# 0324-789076.
This course focuses on the major Economic theories and practices
that drive market behavior in the Healthcare delivery system. The
materials for this course are focused in Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 15 in Health Economics.
1). Health Economics.
2). Production possibilities curve.
3). Opportunity Cost.
4). Cost-benefit analysis.
5). Theories of Health Economics.
6). Healthcare System - Models other countries.
7). First-dollar coverage.
8). National and Socialized Health Insurance.
9). The Production of Medical Services.
10). Utilization Management Programs.
11). Law of Diminishing marginal utility of Health services.
12). Structural, Process and outcome Quality.
13). Lifestyle, Medical Devices and Life Expectancy.
14). Healthcare Expenditures.
15). Law of demand for Healthcare Services.
16). Health Insurances impact on demand.
17). Coinsurance and Deductibles.
18). Indemnity Insurance.
19). Moral Hazard.
20). Own-price elasticity of demand.
21). Demand for private Health Insurance.
22). Risk Avoidance.
23). Employer contribution to Health Insurance.
24). Insurer relations.
25). Types of Managed Care Models.
26). Selective Contracting - Deselection.
27). Managed Care Gag rules.
28). Short and Long Run costs of production.
29). Neoclassical Cost Theory.
30). Cost Identification Analysis.
31). Under and Overprovision of Medical Services.
32). Value of Life.
33). Cost Effectiveness Analysis.
34). Perfect Competition.
35). Determination of Market Price and Quantity.
36). Taxes and Location of For-Profit Hospitals.
37). Regulated Market for Human Organs.
38). Profit Maximization.
39). Market Structure/Market Power.
40). Degree of Monopoly.
41). Oligopoly.
42). Barriers to market Entry.
43). Imperfect Consumer Information.
44). Monopsony and Price Setting.
45). Product Differentiation and Advertising.
46). Market Structure, conduct and performance.
47). Not-for Profit Concepts.
48). For-Profits and Profit Maximizing.
49). Physician Control Model.
50). Supplier Induced Demand.
51). Market Behavior and Hospital Ownership.
52). Ownership Conversion of Not-for-Profit to For-Profit.
53). Conversion Foundations.
54). Size Distribution of Community Hospitals.
55). Sources of Hospital Funds.
56). Managed Care and Market Structure.
57). Market Structure and Hospital Behavior.
58). Hospital Ownership and Hospital Behavior.
59). Drive Through Delivery.
60). Integrated Delivery System.
61). Hospital Price Inflation.
Upon completion
of this course, you will be able to do:
1). Review Theories of Health Economics.
2). Understand the Healthcare System of other countries.
3). Identify factors which influence the Production of Medical Services.
4). Relate structural, process and outcome quality to lifestyle
and life expectancy.
5). Understand the Law of Demand for Healthcare Services and Health
Insurers Impact on Demand.
6). Review the demand for Private Health Insurance.
7). Understand Selective Contracting and Deselection.
8). Review the Cost Effectiveness Analysis Model to Healthcare.
9). Relate market structure and market power to market behavior.
10). Compare and contrast Not-for-Profit Hospital behavior to For-Profit
and Profit Maximizing.
11). Relate market behavior to Hospital ownership.
12). Review - Conversion of Not-for-Profit Hospital to For-Profit
ownership.
13). Understand the supplier induced demand for Health services.
14). Relate what you've learned in this course to your work environment.
The course
begins on the date of your enrollment. You have ten weeks to
complete this course. Extensions are rarely granted, and the, only
for extreme emergencies or active military duty. Students who do
not complete the course within the ten week time will frame receive an
"incomplete/withdrawal" and will have to re-register
and pay tuition again if you desire to complete it.
This is a self-paced course. You may proceed at the pace that is
right for you. It is acceptable to accelerate in this course and
complete it in less than ten weeks with my permission.
As you progress through the course, always feel free to contact
me to discuss issues, questions, etc. related to the
course. I am there to be a mentor to you as you proceed with learning.
You may contact
me via e-mail at any time. You may also request to have a meeting
in a chat room with me. Please make such requests directly to me,
I will then set the date and time for the chat room meeting. I will
answer your e-mails within 48 hours of receipt.
There is only one examination
for this course.
All of the assignments
for this course are detailed in the classroom. Go back to the classroom
page and click on "assignments".
If
you have any questions regarding this program, you may address them
to the instructor at mcbarabas@aol.com.
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