Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, Sixth Edition

By Louis C. Gapenski and Gapenski, Louis C. Gapenski, Louis C.

Book Overview

Todays healthcare managers are placing increased emphasis on financial implications when making operating decisions. Understanding Healthcare Finance, Sixth Edition provides the financial theory and the "nuts and bolts" tools managers need for managerial decision making. Woven throughout the book are tips and techniques for using spreadsheet analyses to make better financial decisions in a variety of provider settings. Real-world examples are used throughout to illustrate concepts. The sixth edition includes coverage of: # 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: # Excel models that illustrate text calculations # Excel 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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567933629
• ISBN13: 9781567933628
• Release Date: January 1901
• Publisher: Aupha/Hap Book
• Length: 727 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Very practical approach

I read a few chapters and like the material so far. The extra resources make the text more practical. If you are as student, you will enjoy the experience.