A healthcare practitioner's and student's 'how to' guide on basic financial terminology, building a budget, forecasting expenses, and analysing variances all set in real world healthcare examples.
Fundamentals of Healthcare Finance, in its second edition, continues to be ideal for individuals needing basic healthcare finance skills. This easy-to-read, content-filled book presents a broad overview of healthcare finance, but focuses on tasks that are essential to the operational management of clinical services, including estimating costs and profits, planning and budgeting, analyzing new equipment purchases, using metrics to monitor operations, and working with financial statements. To as…
Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management, Fifth Edition is the latest book from the most trusted name in healthcare finance, Dr. Louis C. Gapenski. Like its predecessors, this book introduces readers to the basic concepts of healthcare finance, including accounting and financial management. New or expanded coverage of the impact of taxes and depreciation on for-profit providers, medical coding, Monte Carlo simulation, Form 990, and fund accounting. Recent info…
As a contribution to the search for suitable and sustainable solutions to finance rising medical care expenditures, the book proposes a typology of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, based on the dimensions of basic vs. supplementary services and mandatory vs. voluntary coverage, to analyse the design and the complex interactions between various financing and insurance arrangements in several OECD countries. This study provides a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of …
This book presents a practical set of business administration skills for physicians and other healthcare professionals who assume administrative positions in healthcare organizations. It describes management and leadership practices; revenue cycle and financial statements; financial planning, analysis, and execution; strategic planning; managed care; payment methods; hospital governance; and medical business law. Written for the healthcare professional in easily understandable language, Medicin…