PAPA 565 

HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT

                                Professor Drucker  

Texts:  

                        Anne Stoline and Jonathan Weinner, THE NEW MEDICAL MARKETPLACE:  A PHYSICIAN'S GUIDE TO THE HEALTH CARE REVOLUTION, Hopkins University Press.

Paul Starr, THE SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN MEDICINE, Basic Books, Inc.

Draft Syllabus

    Topics:

    Topic   I:    

• Quality, Cost and Access Considerations in Delivering Health Services

• Why Employers, Workers, and the White House Confront a "Healt Care Crisis."  

•  Stoline, Weiner, Chapters 1-7, pgs. 1-135; Ch. 12-13, pgs. 228-262.

• Starr, Book Two, Chapter 4.

    Topic II:                           Physicians

                                         Values and Attitudes

                                        Practice Patterns

                                        Evaluating Performance

                                        Establishing Reimbursement

                                    Stoline, Weiner, Chapter 8-11, pgs. 137-227.

                                    Starr, Book One, Chapters 1-3.

    Topic III:                      Primary Care Practice Settings

                                        Group Practices

                                        Doc in the Boxes

                                        Clinics

                                         Health Maintenance Organizations

                                     Starr, Book One, Chapters 5-6.

    Topic IV:                      Hospitals

                                        Public Hospitals

                                        Medical Centers and Charity Care Hospitals

                                        Corporatization

                                        DRG's and Reimbursement

                                        Competition

                                        Bad Debt/Free Care

                                         Access

                                    Starr, Book One, Chapter 4.

                                    Book Two, Chapters 3 and 5.

    Written Exercise Due in class on "Bad Debt/Free Care Policy  for Charity Hospital"

    Topic V:                      Insurance

                                        Blue Cross/Blue Shield

                                        Private Insurance

                                        Medicare/Medicaid

                                        AIDS Coverage

                                        Universal Access

                                        National Health Insurance

                                    Starr, Book Two, Chapters 1-2.  

    Written Exercise Due on "Insurance Coverage of AIDS"