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040008 KU Health Care Financial Management (MA) (2025W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 50 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

1) Friday, October 10th, 2025, 8.30 am to 12.30 pm; Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Lecture Room 15, 2nd floor;
2) Friday, October 31st, 2025, 8.30 am to 12.30 pm; Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Lecture Room 15, 2nd floor;
3) Friday, November 14th, 2025, 8.30 am to 12.30 pm; Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Lecture Room 15, 2nd floor;
4) Friday, November 21st, 2025, 8.30 am to 12.30 pm; Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Lecture Room 15, 2nd floor;
5) Friday, December 12th, 2025, 8.30 am to 12.30 pm; Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Lecture Room 15, 2nd floor;
6) Friday, December 19th, 2025. 8.30 am to 12.30 pm; Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Lecture Room 15, 2nd floor

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

http://pnpm.univie.ac.at/minormajor-pnpm/

This module focuses on the important topic of financing of health care systems and their underlying incentives. A main focus is the budgeting for health care institutions and projects. Quantitative methods are used such as optimization models, statistical tests, or the agency theory. We examine selected problems of the hospital financing systems and especially of the Austrian performance-oriented reimbursement system (Leistungsorientierte Krankenanstaltenfinanzierung – LKF-System). In addition, we intensively compare international health care systems including financing and other challenges. Finally, we undertake an excursion to a health institution or the Gesundheitspolitisches Forum.

In addition, external practitioners and scientists from all over the world are invited (Dr. Claudia Wild: Health Technology Assessment: Vienna, Prof. Dr. Sally Brailsford: University of Southampton, Prof. Steffen Flessa: University of Heidelberg, Prof. Ruth Davies: University of Warwick, Prof. Dr. Liam O'Neill: Cornell University, Mag. Nina Pfeffer: Social Security Compound, Prof. Zilla Sinuany-Stern: Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva (Israel), Prof. Margaret Brandeau: Stanford University).

Assessment and permitted materials

Presentation slide sets:
Follow the ‘Guidelines for writing academic papers’: https://pnpm.univie.ac.at/minormajorwahlfach-pnpm/

• Submission of term paper I (slide set of the presentation) on 14th November or 21st November 2025: Part presentation - take a printout in a clear envelope to the course and provide .ppt files & .pdf files on Moodle in the morning before the presentation.
• Submission of term paper II (slide set of the presentation) on 12th December or 19th December 2025: Part of the presentation - take a printout in a clear envelope to the course and provide .ppt files & .pdf files on Moodle in the morning before the presentation.

• Follow the guidelines for literature research, slide sets, written papers and AI tools (see: https:\\pnpm.univie.ac.at).
• Submission of the workshop/homework (part presentation - one-sided printout with max. two slides per page in a transparent envelope to be handed in before the presentation in the lecture hall & Moodle submission of the .ppt and .pdf-files in the morning before the presentation).
• The quality of the slide set will be included in the assessment.
• Attention: all presentations are subject to a plagiarism check (software etc.). Research should be carried out independently and texts should be written by the students themselves - only refinement (correction of spelling/grammar errors) using artificial intelligence is permitted. Otherwise a negative assessment will be given.
• Permitted AI tools for language refinement: DeepL, Grammarly, and Scribbr

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Prerequisites for obtaining a positive course certificate:

• Participation in the blocked exercise units.
• Both the written and oral presentations must have been positively assessed.
• Two absences from block units are possible, beyond that the course cannot be passed!
• The use of AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) for the production of texts is only permitted if this is expressly requested by the course instructor (e.g., for individual assignments).
• Please note: all written work is also subject to a plagiarism check (software etc.).

Attendance and participation in the blocked units I to IV: max. 40%
(Moodle Quiz: 14 points; attendance and participation: 26 points)
Presentation of homework I: max. 5%
Set of slides for homework I: max. 15%
Presentation of homework II: max. 10%
Set of slides for homework II: max. 30%

“1“: 90%-100%
“2“: 80%-89%
“3“: 66%-79%
“4“: 50%-65%
“5“: <49,5%

All material will be checked for plagiarism!

Examination topics

see literature

Reading list

All relevant materials will be made available on the e-learning platform Moodle.

Main literature:

* Breyer, F., Zweifel, P., Kifmann, M. (2005) Gesundheitsökonomik, Springer, Berlin.
* Bundesministerium für Soziales, Gesundheit, Pflege und Konsumentenschutz (2024), Leistungsorientierte Krankenanstaltenfinanzierung – Systembeschreibung 2024 Wien.
* Sommersguter-Reichmann, M., Rauner, M. S., & Behrens, D. A. (2023) Complexity, interface management and unintended consequences of planned interventions illustrated by the DRG financing of Austrian hospitals. Z'GuG Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl, 46(4), 441-471.
* European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies: https://eurohealthobservatory.who.int/
* Busse R., Geissler A., Quentin W., Wiley M. (2011) Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe, Open University Press.
* Schölkopf, M., Grimmeisen, S. (2026) Das Gesundheitswesen im internationalem Vergleich, 5. aktualisierte und überarbeitete Auflage, MWV: Berlin.

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