MHA Course Descriptions
HSA 5174: Fundamentals of Health Care Finance (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Introduction to basic theory and principles of finance as applied to the health care industry. Financial statements, cost measurement, budgeting, and capital investment decisions.
HSA 6105-Professional Skills Seminar (1; max: 2) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Presentations by speakers from health-related organizations and programs designed to improve career planning and professional skills. S/U.
HSA 6114-Intro to the U.S. Health Care System (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Overview of structural elements of contemporary system. Historical antecedents, patients, providers, payers, and role of health policy.
HSA 6115-Intro to Management of Health Services Organizations (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Overview of mission, environment, and organizational design of health services organizations, with emphasis on organizational relationships with external environment. Organizational design, structure, stakeholder analysis, and multi-organizational forms.
HSA 6126-The U.S. Health Insurance System (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Description and analysis of US health insurance system. Topics include; private vs. public insurers, demand for healaath insurance, health plan types, premium setting, reimbursement of providers.
HSA 6152-Health Policy (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Survey and critical analysis of federal and state health policy processes and outcomes as they relate to effectiveness and efficiency of health services in U.S. and selected countries.
HSA 6177-Health Care Finance (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Application of accounting and financial management theory and principles to health care industry, emphasis on provider organizations.
HSA 6188-Strategic Management in Health Administration (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Relationship of healthcare organizations to their environment. Strategic management processes, business planning, and other perspectives to aid in managing complex health care organizations.
HSA 6196-Health Services Operations Management (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Focus on managing and evaluating the processes that produce and deliver health services. Emphasis on quantitative techniques to support health care operations including simulation, decision analysis, quality control methods, capacity planning, forecasting, project management, and inventory management.
HSA 6198-lnformation Management in Health Administration (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Survey of management information systems. Analysis of system requirements, system design, evaluation, and selection of computer resources, and management of implementation process.
HSA 6427-Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Administration (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor.Corporate theory, consent to care, malpractice, liability and other special legal problems in the health care field. Foundations of ethical analysis. Ethical and legal issues related to human reproduction, genetics definition of dealth, and other topics of current interest.
HSA 6342-Human Resource Management for Health Services Managers (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor.Knowledge and skills needed for effective management in complex health services organizations. Focus on human resource acquisition, retention, and exit, as well as labor relations issues.
HSA 6436-Health Economics (3) Fundamental economic relations governing production, consumption, reimbursement, and financing of health services. Characteristics of markets for acute and long-term care services, insurance, and health care labor. Economic evaluation of technology.
HSA 6385-Performance Management for Health Care Managers (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Overview, emphasis on implementation. Aspects of quality defined in relation to structure, process, and outcomes. Managerial quality improvement and formal change process techniques related to changing practice behavior in various settings.
HSA 6855-Internship in Health Administration (6) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Supervised fieldwork in health administration setting.
HSA 6939-Capstone Seminar in Health Administration (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Analysis of cases dealing with administrative and policy issues in health services. Emphasis on problem-solving in ill-defined, multi-faceted situations.