Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, Seventh Edition

Louis C. Gapenski, George H. Pink

• Publisher: ACHE Learn
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781567937077
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

Bonus Chapters 17 & 18

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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

Table of contents

• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• Part I The Healthcare Enviroment
• Chapter 1 Introduction to Healthcare Financial Management
• Chapter Supplement 1 Forms of Business Organization, Ownership, and Structure
• Chapter 2 Health Insurance
• Chapter 3 Payments to Providers
• Chater Supplement 3 Risk Sharing Under Capitation
• Part II Basic Financial Management Concepts
• Chapter 4 Time Value Analysis
• Chapter 5 Financial Risk and Required Return
• Part III Capital Acquisition
• Chapter 6 Debt Financing
• Chapter Supplement 6 Interest Rate Levels, Types of Short-Term Debt, Debt Contracts, Bond Insurance, Debt Refunding, And Economic Factors That Influence Interest Rate Levels
• Chapter 7 Equity Financing
• Chapter Supplement 7 Classified Stock, Preferred Stock, Securities Regualation, And The Investment Banking Process
• Chapter 8 Lease Financing
• Part IV Cost Of Capital And Capital Structure
• Chapter 9 Cost of Capital
• Chapter Supplement 9 Measuring The Cost Of Fund Capital
• Chapter 10 Capital Structure
• Chapter Supplement 10 The Debt Maturity Decision
• Part V Capital Allocation
• Chapter 11 Capital Budgeting
• Chapter 12 Project Risk Analysis
• Part VI Financial Condition Analysis And Forecasting
• Chapter 13 Financial Condition Analysis
• Chapter Supplement 13 Market Value Ratios, Common Size Analysis, and Percentage Change Analysis
• Chapter 14 Financial Forecasting
• Part VII Other Topics
• Chapter 15 Revenue Cycle And Current Accounts Management
• Chapter Supplement 15 Long-Term Securities Management, Credit Policy, And The EQQ Model
• Chapter 16 Business Combinations And Valuation
• Chapter Supplement 16 More Regulation, The Role Of Investment Bankers, And Who Wins? The Empirical Evidence
• Glossary
• Appendix: Key Formulas in Chapters
• Index
• About The Authors