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Concentration in Managed Care

Core Curriculum (15 semester hours)

Designed by industry professionals, the core courses provide the key competencies essential for effective health services management. All MHA students must complete the following core courses:

HSM 500 Managing and Leading in Health Services Organizations
HSM 501 Recent Trends and Issues in Health Services
HSM 502 Financial and Cost Analysis
HSM 503 Healthcare Economics or-
HSM 580 Economics of Managed Care
HSM 504 Organizational Communications

Managed Care (12 semester hours)

Designed for professionals interested in adapting and thriving in the evolving managed health care environment. Specific areas of study include methods to design and negotiate contracts and monitor contract compliance and quality indicators; financial and accounting principles to identify contract risk, rates, and revenue optimization strategies; and communication tools to maintain positive relationships among peers, providers and management.

Select any four of the following three unit courses:

HSM 520 Strategic Planning and Management in Health Services Organizations
HSM 533 Mergers and Acquisitions
HSM 580 Economics of Managed Care
HSM 581 Managing Managed Care
HSM 582 Policy Issues in Managed Care
HSM 583 Marketing and Business Development in Health Services Organizations
HSM 585 Complementary Medicine in Managed Care
HSM 590 Selected Topics
HSM 598 Fieldwork/Internship

Research and Culminating Courses (9 semester hours)

Designed as the culminating activities to integrate critical thinking needed to become scholarly practitioners.

HSM 595 Organizational Research Methods
HSM 596 Graduate Seminar
HSM 597 MHA Professional Seminar