DOCTORS LEARN DOLLARS, CENTS OF HEALTH CARE

By Nathaniel Luce

Publication: THE TENNESSEAN

A new master’s program at Owen teaches doctors the business side of health care. Jeffrey Guy, director of the Vanderbilt Burn Center, is a member of the first class. On a recent Saturday on Vanderbilt’s campus, professor LARRY VAN HORN, director of the Healthcare MBA program used a discussion of the medicines that his son takes to explain how consumer choices about drugs might change if people had to pay full price for medicines without insurance discounts.