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Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, Sixth Edition AUPHAHAP Book Health Administration Press

Todays healthcare managers are placing increased emphasis on financial implications when making operating decisions Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, sixth edition, provides the financial theory and the nuts and bolts managers in a variety of provider settings need to make better decisions Realworld examples and spreadsheet analyses are featured throughout the bookThe sixth edition features new and expanded material:Medicare reimbursement methods Payforperformance and consumerdirected health plans Revenue cycle Credit enhancement Business unit forecasting Merger activity in the health services industry Antitrust regulation Overview of derivativesCompanion website enhances learning and clarifies conceptsGo online to access additional tools for financial decision making:Spreadsheet models that illustrate text calculations Spreadsheet problem sets that cover new concepts A bonus chapter, Distributions to Owners: Bonuses, Dividends, and Repurchases Tutorial on using a financial calculatorNew online resources:A healthcare reform primer that explains how new reform legislation the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act affects healthcare financial management Minicases that provide more detailed realworld practice with concepts