Health Care Systems and Ethics

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide basic knowledge of health care delivery systems, socioeconomic issues affecting healthcare, federal and state laws that impact PA practice, and medical ethics. Topics that will be discussed include reimbursement, coding, billing, documentation, risk management in medical practice, prescriptive authority, cultural diversity issues, an overview of complementary medicine, and an introduction to the physician assistant profession and the roles of different members of the health care professional team. Offered spring term each year. Three semester hours.