Health Care Finance: Cost, Productivity, and Strategic Design
Author: Steven R Eastaugh
Health Care Finance: Cost, Productivity and Strategy Design is a thorough and balanced exploration of what is happening in the rapidly changing health care marketplace. New payment incentives, which stimulate change in the marketplace are analyzed. Tools for success include better financial planning productivity improvement, better scheduling systems, total quality management, cost effectiveness, and cost—benefit studies. The range of coverage is wide and detailed, making this book essential reading for health care professionals, health care finance students, and health economics students.
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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, competition, tax- exempt and for-profit systems, access to capital and debt financing, and future policy options. Intended for managers, policy makers, health care providers, and graduate students studying to enter the industry. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | Payment Incentives, Integrated Systems, and Cost Management | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Specialization, Accounting, and Standard Costing | 17 |
| Ch. 3 | Paying the Doctor | 35 |
| Ch. 4 | Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis | 55 |
| Ch. 5 | Marketing and Pricing | 75 |
| Ch. 6 | Productivity Improvement: Managing Effective Cost Controls | 103 |
| Ch. 7 | Quality Improvement | 125 |
| Ch. 8 | HMOs, Competition, and Managed Care | 141 |
| Ch. 9 | Long-Term Care: Issues and Options | 155 |
| Ch. 10 | Tax-Exempt and For-Profit Systems | 179 |
| Ch. 11 | Evaluation of Financing Alternatives | 191 |
| Ch. 12 | Access to Capital and Debt Financing | 213 |
| Ch. 13 | Future Policy Options: The Bumpy Road Ahead | 235 |
| Index | 249 |
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