HCA 503 - Health Care Economics

(3 units)

Prerequisites: ECON 101 or ECON 300. Open to HCA graduate students only.
Application of microeconomics principles to the health care, the demand side including demand for health care and demand for health, health disparity, the flow of funds through the health care system including physicians, hospitals, managed care, nursing homes and pharmaceutical firms. The insurance system, asymmetric information and health care systems.

Letter grade only (A-F).