Medicine and Business: A Practitioner's Guide

✍ Scribed by Ronald V. Bucci (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 199
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is designed to provide physicians with the information they need in applying business management skills to their medical practice. It covers management and leadership practices, financial planning and execution, hospital governance, managed care, marketing activities, and medical business law. Written for the physician in easily understandable language, it describes each concept, delineates its applications in various practice environments and provides insight into the future developments in each sector.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Healthcare and Business....Pages 1-8
Leadership and Governance....Pages 9-20
Revenue Cycle....Pages 21-33
Financial Definitions and Variances....Pages 35-40
Income Statement....Pages 41-48
Balance Sheet....Pages 49-57
Statement of Cash Flows....Pages 59-67
Financial Ratios....Pages 69-78
Budgeting and Variance Analysis....Pages 79-86
Strategic Planning and Business Planning....Pages 87-102
Healthcare Insurance....Pages 103-116
Managed Care....Pages 117-124
Payment Methods....Pages 125-132
Corporation and Hospital Structures....Pages 133-147
Physician Employment and Compensation....Pages 149-159
Medical Business Law and Regulations....Pages 161-170
New Government Initiatives....Pages 171-183
Back Matter....Pages 185-191

✦ Subjects

Practice Management; Medicine/Public Health, general; Internal Medicine