Fall 2008
Mgmt 444, Health Care Economics
Term: Fall 2008
Course: 0112-444-0
Title: Health Care Economics
Time and Place: Monday Nights, 6:30-9:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 160 (Review
sessions begin at 6pm in Room 160)
Course Materials:
Homework Problems
Homework Solutions
California Hospital Data 1996
California Hospital Data 1997
Guide
to California Utilization Variables
Link to Diagnosis
Related Group Coding:
http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/med/DRG_Rates.pdf
Link to ICD-Coding: http://icd9cm.chrisendres.com/index.php?action=contents
Lecture Notes,
Web Links, and Exam
Schedule
(Note: Lecture notes
may be slightly updated 48 hours prior to class)
Week 1: Technological
Change
Dranove/Kyle
Paper
CBO Paper
Week 1: Value
Based Health Care
Gary
Becker Article on Value of Life (Introduction)
National Institute
for Clinical Excellence Home Page
Is
American Healthcare Uniquely Inefficient?
Week 2: Cost Effectiveness
Global
Pharmacoeconomic Guidelines
Gardasil
QALY example
Week 2: History
of the U.S. Healthcare System
Week 3: Insurance
Kaiser
Employer Health Benefits Survey
Week 3: Insurance
Market Spillovers
Symposium
on Insurance Crowd Out :
Week 4: Demand
Charity
Care Report
Gruber
Paper on RAND Experiment
Week
5: Inefficiencies and Solutions
Week 6:
In-class Midterm
Week 6: National
Health Policy
Obama
National Health Plan
McCain
on Health Care
Week 7: Managed Care
Week 7: Quality
Leapfrog
Hospital Report Card
Medicare
Hospital Report Card
Synthesis
Project: Role of Quality Information in Choosing a Health Provider
Week 8: Competition, Integration,
and Antitrust
DOJ/FTC
Report on Healthcare Competition
AMA
Report on Insurance Concentration
Week 9: Pricing
Tynan/Christianson
Report on CDHP
CBO
Report on Consumer Directed Health Plans
Week 10: Medical Malpractice
Week 10: Wild Card
Take-home Final: To be posted 12/3/2008;
due 12/8/2008.
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