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Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, Sixth Edition
Louis C. Gapenski, PhD
George H. Pink, PhD
ISBN 13: 978-1-56793-362-8
Hardbound, 727 pp, 2010
Imprint: AUPHA/HAP Book
Order code: 2164
Price: $132.00
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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
Instructor Resources: PowerPoint slides, end-of-chapter problem solutions, and mini-case studies. To see a sample click the link in the right-hand navigation bar.
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Louis C. Gapenski, PhD, is a professor of health services administration at the University of Florida with a specialization in corporate and healthcare finance. He is the author of 30 textbooks on corporate and healthcare finance. His books are used worldwide and include Canadian and international editions as well as translations in eight languages. He has published 40 journal articles related to corporate and healthcare finance and is active in several professional associations. |
George H. Pink, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Senior Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Pink is the author of more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and has made more than 200 academic presentations in ten countries |
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