Health Care Finance: Cost, Productivity & Strategic DesignJones & Bartlett Learning, 1998 - 257 Seiten Examines the various cost-containment proposals and other financial strategies that have been advanced in the 1990s against the backdrop of the empirical research available to date. The author covers payment incentives, integrated systems, marketing and pricing, quality improvement, HMOs, competitio |
Inhalt
Specialization Accounting and Standard Costing | 17 |
Paying the Doctor | 35 |
Principal Methods for Paying the Doctor | 40 |
Join Together or Suffer Alone | 46 |
CostEffectiveness and CostBenefit Analysis | 55 |
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Marketing and Pricing | 75 |
Managing Effective | 103 |
HMOs Competition and Managed Care | 141 |
Issues and Options | 155 |
335 | 177 |
Chapter 10TaxExempt and ForProfit Systems | 179 |
Chapter 11Evaluation of Financing Alternatives | 191 |
Chapter 12Access to Capital and Debt Financing | 213 |
The Bumpy Road Ahead | 235 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Administration ADRG American Medical analysis annual assessment assets Association average azithromycin basic beds benefits better budget capital cash CCRC clinical clinicians competition consumer contracts cost-benefit cost-benefit analysis cost-effective Cost-effectiveness analysis coverage debt decisions diagnosis-related group discount rate DRGs Eastaugh economic effective efficiency elderly employees equity example expenses facility financial ratios for-profit funds future Gaithersburg growth Health Affairs health care health insurance health plan Health Services HMOs home health improve incentive income increased inpatient institution investment issue Journal lease less managed care marginal measure Medicaid medical staff Medicare medicine million net present value nonprofit nursing home offer operating organizations output patient payers payment penetration pricing physicians potential pricing pricing Skim problem product lines profit providers ratio reduce reimbursement residents revenue risk scheduling sector specialists SPGs strategy surgery teaching hospitals utilization variance volume