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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6775
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2009-03-02
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: HSC 006201-10000
- Contact Person: Fran D'Avanzo-Schrader
- Phone: 69978
- Email: fdavanzo@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 6775
- Full Title: Microsystem Concepts of Health Care Finance
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: O -
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- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Microsys Concpts of HC Finance
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
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- Corequisites:
- Course Description: Concepts, language and data about financial and economic elements of patient care in a microsystem; skills to obtain, synthesize and utilize information from health economics and health finance using specialized language, concepts and operating rules.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Updated CNL competencies
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Required course in concentration.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, once.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D or educational preparation in the specialty course work.
- Objectives: Upon completion of this three-credit course, the student will be able to:
1. Describe selected relationships of economic concepts to microsystems in health care, especially the concept of reimbursement for health care services.
2. Describe the (U.S.A.) system of health care financing and delivery arrangements as they impact microsystems, especially Medicare and Medicaid.
3. Analyze selected health finance factors in public policy affecting health microsystems; these factors include universal access, indigent care, capitated care, and managed care.
4. Estimate the costs of human, technological and material resources involved in implementing a program change.
5. Describe principles of product evaluation it their impact on microsystem budgeting process.
6. Evaluate the relationship between healthcare financing and the regulatory and licensure/certification processes in healthcare.
- Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this three-credit course, the student will be able to:
1. Describe selected relationships of economic concepts to microsystems in health care, especially the concept of reimbursement for health care services.
2. Describe the (U.S.A.) system of health care financing and delivery arrangements as they impact microsystems, especially Medicare and Medicaid.
3. Analyze selected health finance factors in public policy affecting health microsystems; these factors include universal access, indigent care, capitated care, and managed care.
4. Estimate the costs of human, technological and material resources involved in implementing a program change.
5. Describe principles of product evaluation it their impact on microsystem budgeting process.
6. Evaluate the relationship between healthcare financing and the regulatory and licensure/certification processes in healthcare.
- Major Topics: 1. Finance as a Determinant of the Health Care Environment
a. Payors
b. Medicare/Medicaid
c. Rule Making
2. Influence of Reimbursement Models on a Microsystem
a. Managed care
b. Regulatory environment
3. Cost of Human Resources in a Microsystem
a. Staffing/Turnover
b. Teaching
4. Managing Costs in a Microsystem
a. Balancing quality and costs
b. Management support systems
5. Budgeting Concepts for a Microsystem
a. Business plan
b. ROI
c. Establishing/monitoring a budget
d. Variance
6. Converting Results into Action Plans
a. Microsystem Data
b. Benchmarking
c. Report Cards
- Textbooks: Finkler, S.A., Kovner, C.T., & Jones, C. B. (2007). Financial management for nurse managers and executives (3rd ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders-Elsevier.
American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.