HPM 277 [Summer 1] Current Issues in Health Policy*
This course introduces students to the major health policy issues facing the United States today. The course focuses on the roles of hospitals, doctors, private and government insurance, and different systems for organizing and financing care (such as traditional fee-for-service, HMOs, and other forms of "managed care"). Individual sessions in the course will be devoted to topics such as medical malpractice, policy issues related to pharmacological therapy, physician payment, academic health centers, workforce, physician profiling, managed care, Medicare, Medicaid, and ethical issues.
Instructor: Dr. Arnold Epstein, Dr. Anthony Komaroff
1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m. (Mon.-Fri.)
Lectures. 2.5 credits.