Principles and practice of Health insurance

Course Description

This course is designed to provide an overview, design, function, management, regulation, and evaluation of health insurance.  It provides a firm foundation in basic concepts pertaining to private health insurance/benefit plans given the rising costs of quality health services at the hands of the inadequacy in the public health system. This has made health insurance a viable and a dynamic industry in a growing sector of the economy. The aim is to equip students to market and underwrite health insurance.

Course Objectives

1. To understand the basics of health care insurance operations
2. To understand the health insurance market in Uganda
3. To appreciate the health insurance underwriting
4. To understanding the claims management process
5. To grasp the health care financing models and practices
6. To understand the structure of health insurance benefits

Leaning outcomes

1. Have an understanding of basic health insurance policies.
2. Have knowledge of health insurance market needs
3. Have an understand the procedures of selling and marketing health insurance
4. Have the skills of handling settlement of claims under the health insurance policies
5. Have skills of writing reports and rating risk in health insurance according to the regulatory procedures and best practices