Gapenski's Understanding Healthcare Financial Management


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Revised edition of: Understanding healthcare financial management. Louis C. Gapenski, George H. Pink. 2015.







Understanding Healthcare Financial Management


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Bonus Chapters 17 & 18 Student Companion Website - Models Student Companion Website - Problems Student Companion Website - Mini Cases Corrections Instructor Resources: New test bank, PowerPoint slides, chapter problem solutions, minicase solutions, and a transition guide to the new edition. Student resources enhance learning, clarifies concepts, and provides additional tools for financial decision making, including Excel models that illustrate the text's calculations and end-of-chapter problems and spreadsheets, minicases that provide further practice in applying concepts, and two bonus chapters. In today's healthcare environment, financial issues are paramount, and managers must be prepared as they strive to improve the delivery of health services. Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, Seventh Edition, blends theory with the "nuts and bolts" tools managers need for on-the-job decision making. Self-test questions, key concepts, glossary terms, learning objectives, and spreadsheet problems are featured throughout the book, helping students learn to make educated financial decisions in even the most complex provider settings. This substantially updated seventh edition provides an even greater focus on the types of financial decisions healthcare providers make and a more user-friendly approach to the topics presented: Updates explain the effects of health reform and the Affordable Care Act on financial management Consolidation of content about health insurance and payments to providers sharpens the book's focus on the healthcare environment Key Equation boxes highlight important formulas Integrative Applications present in-depth practice problems that illustrate key concepts Anecdotal sidebars connect interesting real-world situations with chapter topics End-of-chapter supplements separate less essential content from the chapter's core content A new appendix compiles the book's key equations in one place to provide a handy summary of the most important mathematical formulas and variable definitions







Financial Management of Health Care Organizations


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Thoroughly revised, this third edition of Financial Management of Health Care Organizations of­fers an introduction to the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers a broad range of topics that include an overview of the health care system and evolving reimbursement methodologies; health care accounting and finan­cial statements; managing cash, billings, and collections; the time value of money and analyzing and financing major capital investments; determining cost and using cost information in decision-mak­ing; budgeting and performance measurement; and pricing. In addition, this new edition includes information on new laws and regulations that affect health care financial reporting and performance, revenue cycle management expansion of health care services into new arenas, benchmarking, interest rate swaps, bond ratings, auditing, and internal control. This important resource also contains information on the 2007 Healthcare Audit Guide of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Written to be accessible, the book avoids complicated formulas. Chapter appendices offer advanced, in-depth information on the subject matter. Each chapter provides a detailed outline, a summary, and key terms, and includes problems in the context of real-world situations and events that clearly illustrate the concepts presented. Problem sets that end each chapter have been updated and expanded to support more in-depth learning of the chapters’ concepts. An Instructor’s Manual, available online, contains PowerPoint and Excel files.




Gapenski's Healthcare Finance


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"This best-selling textbook covers the essential concepts of accounting and financial management in healthcare"--




Healthcare Finance


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The essential concepts of both accounting and financial management are covered in this best-selling healthcare finance book. Through clear explanations, numerous examples, and realistic practice problems, it arms future managers with the grounding they need to make financially sound decisions for their healthcare organizations. This thoroughly updated edition provides more emphasis on the unique marketplace for healthcare services and additional examples from nonhospital settings, including medical practices, clinics, home health agencies, nursing homes, and managed care organizations.




Gapenski's Fundamentals of Healthcare Finance


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Revision of: Fundamentals of healthcare finance / Louis C. Gapenski. c2013. 2nd ed.




Health Care Finance


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Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers is the most practical financial management text for those who need basic financial management knowledge and a better understanding of healthcare finance in particular. Using actual examples from hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies, this user-friendly text includes practical information for the nonfinancial manager charged with budgeting. The Fourth Edition offers: - An expanded chapter on Electronic Records Adoption: Financial Management Tools & Decisions - New chapter: "ICD-10 Adoption and Healthcare Computer Systems" - New chapter: "Other Technology Adoption and Management Decisions" - New chapter: "Strategic Planning and the Healthcare Financial Manager" - New case study: "Strategic Planning in Long-Term Care" that connects with the chapter on strategic planning - New appendix: "Appendix C: Employment Opportunities in Healthcare Finance"




Healthcare Finance and Financial Management


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Includes case studies for assignments and classroom discussion Covers NP practice financial management Comprehensive instructor's manual available including presentation slides, chapter guides, and grading rubrics This textbook is designed for students preparing as advanced practice clinicians, including APRNs, DNPs, DPTs, DOTs, and physician assistants. The book covers both health policy issues and practice financial management issues. It is organized into seven sections in two parts. The first part is focused on macro issues in healthcare finance, and the second part is focused on healthcare financing management in professional practice. This approach provides the context necessary for the clinician to understand how to manage reimbursement requirements and preferred provider contracting as health care financial policy drives these payment and contracting strategies. Each section features a case study to facilitate classroom discussion on key points. This book is suitable for healthcare finance courses in the curriculum for MSN and DNP programs and also for schools of social work, medicine, occupational, and physical therapy.