Health Care Financial Management

by Brown, Montague

• ISBN13: 9780834203037
• ISBN10: 0834203030
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-04-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

Summary

Here is a compilation of strategies and methods for health care financial management. How-to guidance for techniques for better budgeting using flexible budget variance analysis, cost prediction simulation in CON review, discount rates for capital expenditure analysis, and more are included. Other topics covered are downsizing, product costing, departmental P&Ls, cost accounting, the role of the chief financial officer, and more. Anyone involved in the financial aspects of a health care organization will find this volume a handy reference of the most successful techniques in use today.

Table of Contents

Capital Decisions

The Association of Capital Budgeting

Techniques with Hospital Financial Performance

Flexible Budget Variance Analysis Extended to Patient Acuity and DRGs

Use of Cost Prediction Simulation Models for CON Affordability Review

Hospital Capital Budgeting: Fusion of Rationality, Politics and Ceremony

Changing Criteria for Hospital Acquisitions

The Discount Rate for Capital Expenditure Analysis in Health Care

Capital Investment Decisions in Hospitals: Survey Results

Investing in the Wrong Future for Hospitals

Financial Variables and Efficiency Analysis

A Framework for Identifying and Correcting Structural Inefficiencies

Causes of Financial Difficulty in Catholic Hospitals

Setting Priorities for Diverse Equipment Acquisition and Program Proposals with Automated Multiattributed Utility Functions

Comparison of Efficiency and Profitability of Investor-Owned Multi-hospital Systems with Not-for-Profit Hospitals

Downsizing: How One Hospital Responded to Decreasing Demand

Product Costing for Health Care Firms

Cost, Price, and Managerial Accounting

Toward a Departmental Bottom-Line

Perspective Hospital Charges: Analysis and Comparison

A Managerial Approach to Allocating Indirect Fixed Costs in Health Care Organizations

Leadership

The Influence of the Hospital Financial Officer

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