HCA650 Medical Practice Management
Lead Faculty: Dr. Stephen Bowman
Course Description
Management and operational theory and practice for contemporary medical group administration, with emphasis on managed care delivery systems.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the role of medical group practice in the context of US healthcare.
- Evaluate the current and anticipated market forces affecting trends in the medical group practice environment.
- Compare and contrast clinical operations in ambulatory and long-term care facilities.
- Apply principles of financial and managerial accounting to medical group practice, including managed care and both short-range and long-range financial decision making.
- Evaluate a medical group practice facility for safety and functionality.
- Apply principles of human resources management to medical group practice.
- Apply principles of information systems management to a medical group practice.
- Evaluate patient care systems, such as appointment and scheduling systems, to maximize operational effectiveness and patient satisfaction.
- Describe and illustrate the functional relationships between the medical staff, medical director, and administrator of a medical group practice.
- Analyze the operational and legal relationships between physicians in a medical group practice and hospitals.
- Analyze the sources of risk in a medical group practice environment and propose actions for risk management.
- Analyze legal and governance statutes and standards affecting medical group practice and propose actions to achieve and maintain compliance with those statutes and standards.
