ADHA 7025 The Price of Care: Financial Decision Making in Healthcare
This course uses an applied economic framework to help understand the economic and financial landscape of health care systems. The course begins with an overview of economic principles including supply and demand and perfect markets and then describes the economic challenges of healthcare economics and how health and health services are different from other goods. Considerable attention will be given to topics of current public concern including market failure, government interventions, health insurance, rapidly increasing cost, value, and expensive new technologies.
Course overview
- Department
- Advancing Studies
- School
- ADV
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Graduate
- Offered
- Periodically in the Fall
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.43 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 4.46 / 5 · Very Good
- Terms evaluated
- 11
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.0 | — | 9 of 15 |
| Fall 2025 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 10+ hrs/week | 5 of 9 |
| Fall 2024 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 10+ hrs/week | 8 of 11 |
| Summer 2024 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 1.0 | — | 3 of 8 |
| Spring 2024 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 10+ hrs/week | 16 of 18 |
| Summer 2023 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 of 5 |
| Spring 2023 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.0 | 7–9 hrs/week | 11 of 11 |
| Fall 2022 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 10+ hrs/week | 4 of 12 |
| Summer 2022 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 10+ hrs/week | 2 of 9 |
| Spring 2022 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.2 | 10+ hrs/week | 7 of 14 |
| Fall 2021 | Jeannine Robbins-Murphy | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 10+ hrs/week | 7 of 19 |