Health Care Organizations

Catalog description

The course examines the various stakeholders of the US healthcare system and how the stakeholders interact with one another. We will intentionally start with a strong historical foundation for a relevant stakeholder and then capture the accompanying evolutions over years and decades that lead us to the contemporary circumstances facing the stakeholder today. Our first journey examines the objectives and behavior of key financers of the US healthcare system: patients, employers, and taxpayers who pay for medical care consumption as well as key insurance intermediaries that manage the funds: private and public (i.e., Medicare and Medicaid). We then shift to the supply of medical services via hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare professional industries that provide the actual care consumed. We will finish the semester by investigating pharmaceutical and medical device firms, which ultimately supply medical products that providers use to care for patients.