Master of Business Administration: Healthcare Administration Concentration

Examines the legal and judicial processes as they relate to health care. Considers criminal and civil law. Emphasizes principles of contract law. We will examine health care as a highly regulated industry, providing students with an understanding of the vast range of legal issues facing health care practitioners and administrators. Particular attention will be given to topics in regulatory compliance, medical malpractice, health care contracting, and employment law.

This course reviews current trends in health care financing; integrated delivery systems; managed care, as well as some focus on health care operations, including: billing, coding, pricing, utilization review, case management, and systems. Reviews and discusses current events and research relating to the health care system structure throughout the world and relative to U.S. health care policy.

This course uses quantitative methods to analyze and improve business processes within an organization. Regression analysis, simulation, decision analysis, capacity planning, inventory models, linear programming, scheduling, and benefit cost analysis.

Focuses on quality systems that include developing clear mission or vision, setting measurable strategic quality goals, deploying goals for action by identifying specific activities to be done, and controlling results. Analysis of quality process in health care historically, with emphasis on key strategies for success.

Integrating prior coursework within the context of strategy formulation and implementation, student teams conduct a "live" consulting engagement with a domestic organization. Students develop the parameters of the engagement and apply appropriate theoretical knowledge in a practical setting to prepare and present a project report.