Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Health Services Administration
Course descriptions
MBA 618 Accounting For Decision Making (3)
This course will introduce students to the accounting concepts and use of accounting information in decision making. Topics include basics of financial statements, measurement of assets, equities and income, financial statement analysis, cost behavior and measurement, cost and profitability analyses, long-term investment analysis, relevant cost, and performance measures.
MBA 636 Health Care Systems (3)
Examines the structures, functioning, and financing of the U.S. health services system. Emphasizes foundational concepts for understanding and analyzing patterns of health and illness; health care cost, quality, access, and utilization; workforce; competition in health care markets; and supplier, provider, and payer effectiveness and efficiency.
MBA 637 Health Care Policy And Economics (3)
Topics include consumer behavior, determinants of demand for health services, determinants of costs in health care organizations, production theory, the role of competition and regulation in the health care industry, health risks and their economic impact, insurance and alternative financing mechanisms, cost-benefit analysis of health programs, and theories of health care cost inflation. Also examines international alternative health policies. Prerequisite: MBA 636.
MBA 638 Informatics: Health Information Systems And Technology (3)
Analyzes current information and management systems including workforce planning and productivity, financial planning and monitoring, quality assurance, staffing and scheduling, administrative information systems, patient care systems, and legal/regulatory requirements for security and confidentiality. Evaluates alternative uses of computer technology in health care, including tele-health technologies.
MBA 639 Program Evaluation And Outcome Assessment (3)
This course considers health data sources and program evaluation methods, and the means to incorporate the findings into effective health care service delivery. Topics include: cost-benefit analysis, activity analysis, outcome assessment, design of program evaluations, and reporting of results. Students learn to measure the magnitude of problems posed by different diseases, determine who is affected by the problems, identify causes, and evaluate the efficacy of prevention and treatment intervention. Prerequisite: MBA 652.
MBA 644 Ethical And Legal Issues In Health Care (3)
This course explores the health care delivery system in the United States, the laws that govern that system, and the inherent ethical issues involved with the delivery of health care services. Students can expect to gain a broad sense of the relationship between the structure of the health care system and the law of health care. The course covers private insurance and state and federal law, including ERISA, COBRA, the ADA and HIPAA; basic Medicare and Medicaid law; antitrust law; federal fraud and abuse law; and basic law of managed care. The course will also explore emerging issues of biotechnology, services rationing, and collection and disclosure of patient information.
MBA 645 Health Care Marketing (3)
Fundamental theories, concepts, and techniques of marketing applied to the distinctive properties of health care services. Emphasizes the role of marketing in aligning organizational capacity and health care needs; market analysis and planning; strategic marketing management; tactical marketing mix design; developing and managing new services and systems of delivery.
MBA 646 Informatics: Integration And Application (3)
Informatics – the intersection of technology, information, and health care – impacts health care on national and local levels. Health care personnel are developing ehrs (electronic health records), electronic billing systems, patient and practitioner portals, and other manifestations of the information age universally – yet few systems communicate with one another. As informatics continues its consumption of resources both human and monetary, all in the field of health care need to understand what it is, how it affects their services, and how to direct its efforts to improvement of health care delivery. Prerequisite: MBA 638.
MBA 647 Practice Management (3)
Provides a practical overview of management skills and tools necessary to assist a physician group with an efficient delivery organization. Discusses issues in larger healthcare business environment that affect physician professional practice, and the operational factors that define a successful organization now and in the future. Prerequisite: MBA 636.
MBA 648 Reimbursement Systems (3)
An examination of the challenges associated with organizing and managing health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other types of managed care systems. The course places special emphasis on the organization and management of physician practices. Other topics include: contractual relationships with hospitals, utilization review and quality assurance systems, and marketing.
MBA 652 Intermediate Statistics For Management (3)
An intermediate level course in statistics covering a review of point and interval estimation type I and II errors and hypothesis testing, with an extension to the analysis of simple survey designs, followed by a rigorous development of simple and multiple regression, elementary ANOVA, discrete data analysis, and nonparametric methods. Students will learn to work with the MINITAB statistical package and other spreadsheet programs.
MBA 664 Leadership (3)
An experiential course that enables the student to examine several leadership styles, traits, and behaviors. The student will also discover a variety of group creative problem-solving techniques and processes. The students will examine their leadership role within a team-building environment. Students participate in class exercises and in an outdoor experiential lab environment.
MBA 669 Health Care Finance (3)
Examines theory and techniques of corporate financial management as applied to health services providers and insurers including time value of money, capital budgeting techniques, cost flow analysis, capital structures planning, mergers and acquisitions, managed care financing, contract negotiation, and capital acquisition and investment analysis. Prerequisite: MBA 618.
MBA 697 Capstone Course (3)
Integration and application of the skills learned in competitive strategy, finance, human resource management, marketing, accounting, operations management, and other functional areas through an interactive management simulation conducted in teams. This course is normally taken in the last semester of the student’s enrollment in the MBA, MBAICT or MGF program. Prerequisites: Completion of at least nine (9) MBA, MCT or MGF courses representing a cross section of functional management disciplines or instructor permission.
