Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, Sixth Edition

Louis C. Gapenski, PhD George H. Pink, PhD

ISBN: 9781567933628
Hardbound, 752pp, 2010
Order Code: 2164
AUPHA/HAP Book
  • Non Member Price: $132.00

Book Description

The Seventh Edition of this book will be published in March 2015. To request an exam copy of the Seventh Edition, please click here. If you need a desk copy of the Sixth Edition, please contact us.

Today’s 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
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    Companion casebook

    Cases In Healthcare Finance, Fifth Edition is an ideal supplement to this text. Through real-world cases, it provides the opportunity to bridge the gap between learning concepts in a lecture setting and applying these concepts on the job. Be better prepared to deal with the multitude of issues that arise in the practice of healthcare finance. Receive a 20% discount on the casebook when you purchase it along with this text.

    Instructor Resources: PowerPoint slides, end-of-chapter problem solutions, and mini-case studies.To see a sample, click on the Instructor Resource sample tab above.

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