Thriving in an Everchanging Healthcare Environment

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Due to a complex and everchanging healthcare environment, efforts to improve population health in innovative and cost-effective ways has proven challenging for providers and insurers alike. Offered in an asynchronous online format and including content taught by expert faculty in the Perelman School of Medicine Health Care Innovation Graduate Program, this course introduces students to main forces affecting the health insurance environment including changing mechanics of the insurance market, health insurance plan costs, and innovative methods for modifying behavior through incentives embedded within benefit design. Students also examine various examples of insurance reform incentivizing practice innovation and the development of new service delivery models in the healthcare industry.