Health care finance
Subtitle: basic tools for nonfinancial managers
By: Judith Baker, R.W. Baker.
Contributors: Baker, R. W.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Health facilities -- Finance -- Case studies.; Health facilities -- Accounting -- Case studies.; Financial Management -- United States.; Delivery of Health Care -- economics -- United States.; Health Facilities -- economics -- United States.; Health Facilities -- organization & administration -- United States.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to health care finance; title: What does the health care manager need to know?; title: Assets, liabilities and net worth; title: Revenues (inflow); title: Expenses (outflow); title: Cost classifications; title: Cost behavior and break-even analysis; title: Staffing: the manager's responsibility; title: Reporting; title: Financial and operating ratios as performance measures; title: The time value of money; title: Comparative data, forecasts and benchmarking; title: Budgeting and variance analysis; title: Capital expenditure budgets; title: Business loans and financing costs; title: Owning versus leasing equipment; title: Putting it all together: creating a business plan; title: Case study: metropolis health system background; title: Mini-case study 1: proposal to add a retail pharmacy to a hospital in the metropolis health system; title: Mini-cases study 2: changing economic realities in the health care setting: a physician's office teaching cases; title: Mini-case study 3: the economic significance of resource misallocation: client flow through the women, infants, and children public health program.