Stop Managing Costs -
by James P. Mozena, Charles E. Emerick, Steven C. Black
Category: Business & Economics

Few books address the importance of centering an organization around systems or processes, and even less emphasize how such a change can affect how healthcare managers deal with ever-present financial pressures. This book addresses both issues and contains a step-by-step method to be used by managers to start developing a core business system structure for their organization. the authors' provide an effective approach to controlling healthcare costs without cutting back on services. the authors believe that in order to achieve a core business system organization structure, healthcare managers need to refrain from making changes based solely upon bottom line or end results. They discuss reasons why it's dangerous to apply quick-fixes to the problems involved in reducing costs, and demonstrate the importance of making changes based on a thorough understanding of the system. the authors' provide a step-by-step format for understanding and improving healthcare organizations structured around core business systems, and include work sheets to help the reader along the way.