Master healthcare economics, insurance principles, and provider dynamics. Perfect for healthcare professionals and managers.
Master healthcare economics, insurance principles, and provider dynamics. Perfect for healthcare professionals and managers.
This course cannot be purchased separately - to access the complete learning experience, graded assignments, and earn certificates, you'll need to enroll in the full The Business of Health Care Specialization program. You can audit this specific course for free to explore the content, which includes access to course materials and lectures. This allows you to learn at your own pace without any financial commitment.
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What you'll learn
Understand the structure and history of the American healthcare system
Analyze insurance principles and payment models
Evaluate provider economics and hospital management strategies
Examine healthcare regulation and antitrust policies
Apply economic principles to healthcare delivery challenges
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This course includes:
3.5 Hours PreRecorded video
4 quizzes
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There are 4 modules in this course
This comprehensive course explores the economic principles underlying healthcare delivery systems. Students learn about healthcare insurance structures, provider economics, and payment models. The curriculum covers historical development of healthcare systems, insurance principles including risk and moral hazard, provider roles including physicians and hospitals, and regulatory frameworks. Special emphasis is placed on understanding cost management, vertical integration, and modern healthcare delivery trends. The course combines theoretical economic concepts with practical healthcare management applications.
History and Structure of American Healthcare
Module 1 · 1 Hours to complete
Insurance Structure and Components
Module 2 · 1 Hours to complete
Physicians and Hospitals in Healthcare
Module 3 · 1 Hours to complete
Alternative Healthcare Providers and Regulation
Module 4 · 1 Hours to complete
Fee Structure
Instructors
Leader in Health Policy and Bioethics
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. A prominent oncologist and bioethicist, he is a Special Advisor to the WHO Director General and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Dr. Emanuel played a pivotal role in drafting the Affordable Care Act and has authored over 350 publications and 15 books. His research, media contributions, and leadership awards have solidified his standing in health policy and ethics. His courses, Benjamin Franklin and His World and The Economics of Health Care Delivery, explore historical and modern intersections of health and economics.
Gilbert and Shelley Harrison Associate Professor of Health Care Management
Guy David, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include: The dynamics of mixed-ownership competition in health care markets Antitrust and tax treatment of nonprofit providers Regulation, competition and integration in the home health care industry Privatization and organization of emergency medical services Organizational and individual learning and forgetting in health care Physician specialization, reputation, technology adoption and patient selection Welfare effects of specialty hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, and The effects of pharmaceutical marketing, promotion, and regulation on drug safety Dr. David teaches undergraduate, MBA, and PhD courses in Economics and Health Care Delivery at Penn. Dr. David received his B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Tel Aviv University, and his Ph.D. in Business Economics from the University of Chicago.
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