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Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers, Second Edition

Author(s): Judith J. Baker, PhD, CPA, Executive Director, Resource Group, Ltd.
R.W. Baker, JD
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763726607
  • ISBN-10:0763726605
  • Paperback    315 pages      © 2006
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This is the most practical financial management text for those who need basic financial management knowledge and a better understanding of healthcare finance in particular. Using actual examples from hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies, this user-friendly text includes practical information for the nonfinancial manager charged with budgeting.

 

All new chapters in the Second Edition:

 

  • Communicating Financial Information to Others
  • Comparative Data, Forecasts and Benchmarking
  • Business Loans and Financing Costs
  • Owning versus Leasing Equipment
  • Putting It All Together: Creating a Business Plan
  • Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth
  • Capital Expenditure Budgets

Errata: A typographical error appears on page 25. The equation in the right-hand column should read: Assets = Liabilities + Net Worth. (Also note that the correct equation appears on page 85.)

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  Preface
  Acknowledgments
Part  Part I  HEALTH CARE FINANCE OVERVIEW
  Chapter 1  Introduction to Health Care Finance
  Chapter 2  What Does the Health Care Manager Need to Know?
Part  Part II  RECORD FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
  Chapter 3  Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth
  Chapter 4  Revenues (Inflow)
  Chapter 5  Expenses (Outflow)
  Chapter 6  Cost Classifications
Part  Part III  TOOLS TO ANALYZE FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
  Chapter 7  Cost Behavior and Break-Even Analysis
  Chapter 8  Staffing: The Manager's Responsibility
Part  Part IV  REPORT AND MEASURE FINANCIAL RESULTS
  Chapter 9  Reporting
  Chapter 10  Financial and Operating Ratios as Performance Measures
  Chapter 11  The Time Value of Money
Part  Part V  PLAN, MONITOR, AND CONTROL FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
  Chapter 12  Comparative Data, Forecasts, and Benchmarking
  Chapter 13  Budgeting and Variance Analysis
  Chapter 14  Capital Expenditure Budgets
Part  Part VI  ALLOCATE RESOURCES AND ACQUIRE FUNDS
  Chapter 15  Business Loans and Financing Costs
  Chapter 16  Owning Versus Leasing Equipment
  Chapter 17  Putting It All Together: Creating a Business Plan
Part  Part VII  CASE STUDY
  Chapter 18  Case Study: Metropolis Health System
Part  Part VIII  MINI-CASE STUDIES
  Chapter 19  Mini-Case Study 1: Proposal to Add a Retail Pharmacy to a Hospital in the Metropolis Health System
  Chapter 20-A  Mini-Case Study 2: Changing Economic Realities in the Health Care Setting: A Physician's Office Teaching Cases
  Chapter 20-B  Mini-Case Study 2: Changing Economic Realities in the Health Care Setting: A Physician's Office Teaching Cases
  Chapter 20-C  Mini-Case Study 2: Changing Economic Realities in the Health Care Setting: A Physician's Office Teaching Cases
  Chapter 21  Mini-Case Study 3: The Economic Significance of Resource Misallocation: Client Flow Through the Women, Infants, and Children Public Health Program
  Appendix A  Checklists
  Appendix B  Web-Based and Software Learning Tools
  Notes
  Glossary
  Examples and Exercises, Supplemental Materials, and Solutions
  Index
  About the Authors
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Judith J. Baker, PhD, CPA-Executive Director, Resource Group, Ltd.

Judith J. Baker, PhD, CPA, is Executive Director and a partner of The Resource Group, a Dallas-based health care consulting firm. Judith has over thirty years experience in health care and consults on numerous health care systems and costing problems. She has worked with health care systems, costing, and reimbursement throughout her career. As a CMS subcontractor she assists in validation of costs for new programs and for rate setting and consults on cost report design. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester School of Nursing and also serves as adjunct faculty at the Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing. Dr. Baker received her B.S. from the University of Missouri, an M.L.S. from the University of Oklahoma, and an M.A. and PhD from the Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, California. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and is Editor Emeritus of the quarterly Journal of Health Care Finance. Among her publications are seven books, including Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management for Health Care; Health Care Cost Accounting; Management Accounting for Health Care Organizations (with Robert Hankins); and Health Care Finance for Non-Financial Managers (with R.W. Baker).

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  • "I have adopted the Baker and Baker Text, which I think is excellent, very practical information and well organized."

                              - Irene Mueller, EdD, RHIA, HIA Program Director, West Carolina University     

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