Health Care Management Concentration Courses
A concentration consists of a minimum of four courses, of which at least 12 semester credits must be upper division. See the course catalog for more information regarding concentrations.
Select at least four of the following courses:
Required Course
OAD 48563 | Management of Health Care Organizations (4 Credits)
Provides overview of management in health organizations with attention to management functions of planning, controlling and organizing. Emphasis on budgeting as application of planning and controlling. Covers setting of objects, formulation of strategies, decision-making techniques of control and different approaches to establishing authority and responsibility in ord
Elective Courses
Choose three from the following:
OAD 36020 | Planning & Budgeting in Health Care (4 Credits)
Addresses basic budgeting and management systems applicable to various health care industries. Examines development of business budgets using tools and models such as balance sheets, income statements, cash flow analysis, time value of money concepts and project planning techniques specific to health care organizations.
OAD 36064 | Managing Integration of Health Care Systems (4 Credits)
Emphasizes multiple perspective approach to understanding management of complex, evolving health care delivery and reimbursement systems. Introduces basic functional areas and their integration, management roles and processes, organizational culture and politics and the interaction of organizations and their environments.
OAD 40654 | Health Care Law & Ethics
Explores case law affecting health care administration. Includes subjects such as health care reimbursement, patient access to health care, organization and operation of the health care business and medical staff relations. Examines ethical issues such as defining death and harvesting organs, withholding or withdrawing medical care, surrogate motherhood and maternal-fetal conflict and patient confidentiality and AIDS.
OAD 46000 | Health Care Policy and Regulations (4 Credits)
Examines the development of health care policy in the U.S. and the influences of societal, political, and economic environments on the health care industry. Explores the interaction of government and other regulatory agencies within the health care industries. Cross-listed with NRS 46000 Health Care Policy and Regulations.
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