Health Care Finance and Economics
- ISBN-10
- 0763731463
- ISBN-13
- 9780763731465
- Category
- Health services administration
- Pages
- 285
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Jones & Bartlett Learning
- Author
- Steven R. Eastaugh
Description
In terms of health care, Americans want incompatible resultsunlimited access to the best care at affordable prices. With health care assuming an increasing proportion of the American economy, it is vital that health care managers and providers have a comprehensive understanding of finance and economics. This text will help you meet the considerable challenge of cutting costs while enhancing service quality.Health Care Finance and Economics provides a complete understanding of financial management and health economics. Youll develop your role as a manager by learning how to: enhance productivity, market strategy, quality, and profitability; manage capital structure, investment decisions, and financial decisions; improve access to health care, promote managed care, and learn from technology assessment studies; and evaluate what a payer can do to buy prudently yet preserve the biomedical strength of the nation.
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