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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - PHC6435
Tracking Number - 4940
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Current Status:
Approved by SCNS - 2015-02-01
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: Change
Course Change Information (for course changes only): New course title:
PHC 6435 Comparative Health Insurance Systems
Abbreviated Title: Comparative Hlth Ins Systems
New course description:
Overview of health insurance concepts and major systems in developed countries, using microeconomic tools relevant to management and public policy.
Comments: to GC 4/7/14 Required for MHA, MPH-HPP. Course Desc too Long. Missing required information. Emailed 5/9/14. Back to Chair 5/20/14- to GC 9/4/14. Approved. To USF Sys 11/4; to SCNS 11/12. Appd eff 2/1/15
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2014-02-12
- Department: Health Policy and Management
- College: PH
- Budget Account Number:
- Contact Person: Somer Burke
- Phone: 8139746606
- Email: sburke@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: PHC
- Number: 6435
- Full Title: Perspectives on Health Insurance
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?: N
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Perspectives on Hlth Insurance
- Course Online?: O -
Online (100% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: PHC 6430 or CI
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: Presents an overview of major health insurance systems and concepts, including demand, supply, employment based coverage, the uninsured, government sponsored programs, managed care, and various financing and organization approaches used internationally.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for program/concentration/certificate change
- 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? The course is a requirement in the MHA track and a popular elective in the MPH tracks.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) A Ph.D. in Health Economics
- Objectives: A. 5. Build analytical thinking acumen.
C. Public Policies and Community Engagement
C. 4. Analyze public policy context and choices
D. Concepts of Economic & Financial Management
D. 5. Perform differential reimbursement calculations by payers and describe the major principles of health insurance
- Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
1. Discuss the U.S. Health Insurance market from a structural perspective.
2. Identify economic issues relevant to the health care policy debate.
3. Discuss health policy related concepts involving efficiency and equality.
4. Evaluate policies from an economic perspective.
5. Evaluate the health care market place from a “systems” perspective.
6. Evaluate the incentive structures underlying health care plans.
7. Evaluate the government and private sector roles pertaining to health insurance.
8. Compare the U.S. health care market place to that of other westernized countries
- Major Topics: 1. Introduction to health care systems concepts
2. The demand for health insurance
3. Employment based health insurance
4. Managed care
5. Government sponsored insurance programs
6. The uninsured
7. Health care systems and managed care
7a. The U.S. System (ACA)
7b. Germany
7c. Canada
7d. United Kingdom
7e. Sweden
7f. Japan
7g. Singapore
- Textbooks: Primary: Michael Morrisey, Health Insurance, 2nd ed. Health Administration Press, 2014
Secondary: Matcha, Duane A. Health Care Systems of the Developed World, How the United States’ System Remains an Outlier Praeger 2003
For critical reading project: Potter, Wendell, Deadly Spin, Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2010 (see project description on page 4)
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: None
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Students are expected to listen to all lectures, participate in discussions, complete two exams, and complete a written project.
The following total scores guarantee the associated grades. The application of a curve will be determined at the end of the semester and will depend on the distribution of grades.
91-100 = A; 81-90 = B; 71-80 = C; 61-70 = D; 60 and below = F
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: Midterm, Final, Written Project
- Attendance Policy: Students are expected to listen to all lectures online and participate in discussions
Please see University Policy on Religious Holidays: http://generalcounsel.usf.edu/policies-and-procedures/pdfs/policy-10-045.pdf
- Policy on Make-up Work:
- Program This Course Supports: MHA and MPH programs in Department of Health Policy and Management
- Course Concurrence Information:
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.