Health Care Management

From hospitals, to health insurance companies to long-term care providers health care problems and solutions are becoming more complex. Students must demonstrate team skills, quantitative analysis and integrative analysis to be competitive in this industry.

The players in the health care industry break down into three categories: providers, payers and industry. The providers include all clinical health care like doctors, nurses, hospitals and clinics. While the payers are the insurance companies. They are researching the most cost effective way to deliver health care and they determine your health coverage and treatments. Industry includes many different companies and positions, from pharmaceutical companies researching and creating the drugs to the those working in banks doing research on health care companies for investment purposes. 

• Doctors, nurses, dentists
• Hospitals
  • Catholic Health Systems
  • Erie County Medical Center (ECMC)
  • Kaleida Health
  • Roswell Park
• Ambulatory care (clinics, physician practices, surgery centers, urgent care)
• Nursing homes
• Long-term care facilities

Health insurance companies

• BlueCross BlueShield of WNY
• Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
• Fidelis Care
• Independent Health
• UnitedHealthcare
• Univera

• Biotechnology
• Medical Devices
  • Integer (previously Greatbatch Medical)
  • Harmac Medical Products
• Pharmaceuticals
• Health IT (electronic records, data analysis and security)
• Health Finance (investments, venture capital, M&A)
  
  • Citi - Biotechnology Equity Research

Below are government agencies that are operating, setting policy, and doing research in health care.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID)
  • National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID)
• Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • Medicaid: provides health coverage to low-income people and is one of the largest payers for health care in the United States.
  • Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP): provides federal matching funds to states to provide health coverage to children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid, but who can't afford private coverage.
  • Basic Health Program (BHP): allows states an option to provide affordable coverage and better continuity of care for people whose income fluctuates above and below Medicaid and CHIP eligibility levels.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
  • National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Department of Labor (DOL)

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Non-Governmental Agencies

• Joint Commission
• Institute of Medicine (IOM) 

• American Journal of Managed Care
  
• BioCentury
• Biospace: Provides Web-based resources and information on the life science industry. Also offers a distribution channel for recruitment, investment, product, event and other life science industry messages. BioSpace's Hotbed Communities highlight clusters of life science industry.
• Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO): BIO represents more than 1,000 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, biotechnology centers and related organizations in all 50 U.S. states and 33 other nations. The site offers biotechnology information, advocacy and business support.
• Buffalo/Niagara Enterprise (Life Sciences): See links to many local life sciences companies who are growing their enterprises in Buffalo/Niagara.
• Center of Excellence (CoE) at University at Buffalo - Join their mailing list and become a friend of the CoE to learn more about events and opportunities.
• Fierce Biotech - Stay up to date with the latest biotechnology news'
• Fierce Pharma
• Healthcare Finance
• Journal of Health Care Finance
• Modern Healthcare
• Occupational Outlook Handbook - Medical and Health Services Managers

To learn more about the Health Care Management area and courses included within the concentration or program, please refer to the academic curriculum.

• MBA - Health Care Management Concentration

• American College of Healthcare Executives (accepts student members)
• American Hospital Association
• Healthcare Financial Management Association
• National Center for Healthcare Leadership
  
• New York Biotechnology Association

• BioSpace
• Biotech Employment 
• ExploreHealthCareers.org 
• Health Care Source
• HospitalCareers
• iHirePharmacy
• Jobscience
• MedReps (pharmaceutical sales)
• Pharma Diversity Job Board
• Science Careers
• USAJOBS (government jobs)
• Zintellect: Access hundreds of research internships, fellowships, and scholarships funded by the government and private sector organizations.
  

To apply for jobs with the United States government, apply directly through the U.S.A. jobs site.

USAJOBS