Today's healthcare managers are placing increased emphasis on financial implications when making operating decisions. Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, sixth edition, provides the financial theory and the nuts and bolts managers in a variety of provider settings need to make better decisions. Real-world examples and spreadsheet analyses are featured throughout the book.
The sixth edition features new and expanded material:
- Medicare reimbursement methods
- Pay-for-performance and consumer-directed health plans
- Revenue cycle
- Credit enhancement
- Business unit forecasting
- Merger activity in the health services industry
- Antitrust regulation
- Overview of derivatives
Companion website enhances learning and clarifies concepts
Go online to access additional tools for financial decision making:
- Spreadsheet models that illustrate text calculations
- Spreadsheet problem sets that cover new concepts
- A bonus chapter, Distributions to Owners: Bonuses, Dividends, and Repurchases
- Tutorial on using a financial calculator
New online resources:
- A healthcare reform primer that explains how new reform legislation - the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - affects healthcare financial management
- Mini-cases that provide more detailed real-world practice with concepts
