Special Topics: Healthcare Claims Data Analysis

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to the richness, complexities, and limitations of healthcare claims data and how the data may be deployed to answer a variety of real-world population health questions. Topics covered in the course include an introduction to claims data and how it is used in population health analysis and quality of care measurement, data basics, claims coding, and how claims data is used in business and academic research. Students will work hands-on with claims data to complete course assignments and a project.