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  • HSAM 1500: HEALTHCARE FINANCIAL ADMIN

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    This course will provide students an introduction into challenges encountered in financial management of health care organizations. The course will provide a macro level review of national health care expenditures. Micro-level work will include sources and uses of funds by health care organizations, information regarding health-care organization budgeting practices, other financial control mechanisms and legal issues as they pertain to financial management.
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  • HSAM 1600: FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH POLICY

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    This course will give students an overview of the health policy mechanisms (legislative, regulatory and private) that shape the way health care is delivered in the U.S. The course will show how policy translates into practice in the context of important health care issues such as insurance coverage such as private commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. The course will give students an orientation into health policy challenges of the future like national health insurance, shortages of medical care professionals and facilities and the effective use of resources in a resource-short environment. Prerequisite: HSAM1100
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  • HSAM 1700: STRATEGIC PLAN FOR HLTH CARE

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    This course will emphasize identification of need for health care services and the process of obtaining necessary resources to meet that need. Coverage will include the process of projecting demand for medical care into the future, basic concepts of capitalization, return on investment and access to resources. Topics will also include community acceptance of health services organization plans and surmounting legal and regulatory hurdles.
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  • HSAM 1800: MARKETING FOR HLTH SERV ORG

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    This course will emphasize how health care organizations develop their markets. The course will cover how consumers make health services purchasing decisions, market identification and mechanisms that positively influence employers, consumers, physicians, and others in the system. The course will provide knowledge about how the organization demonstrates value to those in need of health care.
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  • HSAM 1900: HUMAN RESOURCE ADMIN IN HC

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    This course will give students exposure to some of the more formal aspects of the manager's task such as the recruitment and retention process, interviewing prospective employees, providing ongoing performance reviews, employee performance assessment and feedback, employee termination, employment law and its ramifications, working with labor unions and employee benefit issues.
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  • HSAM 2000: HEALTH CARE LAW AND ETHICS

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    This course will familiarize students with the basic concepts of law as formal social constraint and ethics as informal social mores as they relate to the delivery of health care. Health care law will track the growing right to privacy as developed and applied by the U.S. Supreme Court in cases involving contraception and abortion, the right to refuse treatment, the right to withhold treatment and the right to die. Health care ethics will address questions regarding non-legal but essential societal decisions regarding who gets care and how and the right of health care professionals to refuse to treat. Ethical and legal questions in the area of informed consent, privacy of information and access to information will also be covered.
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  • HSAM 2100: BASIC PRIN OF HEALTH ECONOMICS

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    This course will show students how microeconomic principles to health care. Coursework will introduce students to markets and the theory of perfect competition and will apply these concepts to health care markets for the provision of hospital and physician care and to the market for health insurance. Economic and regulatory responses to market breakdown will be explored in the context of consolidated health care firms, the lack of perfect information regarding health care service quality, non-homogeneity of services and barriers to entry into health care markets. Additional topics will include dynamic adjustment in health care markets, the concept of externalities in health care markets, quality issues and quality signals in health care markets and the implications of the erosion of consumer sovereignty. Prerequisite: HSAM1100
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  • HSAM 3200: ACCTG, BUDGETING/FINAN ACCTAB

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    This course will provide the basics of financial control for entry level health services managers or administrators. The course will develop a basic level understanding of accounting and accounting policies used in the health care delivery context, how health care organizations develop and modify budgets and how health services organizations develop and maintain financial accountability. The course will provide instruction on how resources are allocated within organizations and how managers optimize the resources for their areas of responsibility.
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  • HSAM 3250: RESEARCH HLTH CARE PROFESNL

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    This course will show health care managers how to develop and manage research that makes them more effective managers. The course will introduce managers to the range of materials that are available on the Internet, in peer-reviewed journals, in business journals and from private consulting firms. The course will give an overview of quantitative methods, how managers can develop their own research agenda and the potential uses of research in management. A portion of the course will include how to locate, retain and use the work of health administration research professionals.
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  • HSAM 4850: UNDERGRAD THESIS HLTH CARE

    3.00 Credits
    Robert Morris University

    Undergraduate Thesis in Health Care Administraion will provide support to students engaged in a personal project that ties togehter undergraduate course work, the student's management experience, individual research by the student in an area of interest and identifies an area of interest and identifies an area in the future of health care management that the strudent identifies as a personal priority in terms of future commitment. Prequisites Research Methods for Health Administraion, completion of at least 12 hours of health administration coursework.
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