Healthcare Finance and Economics

Paperback: 285 pages
ISBN 0763731463
9780763731465
Jones & Bartlett Publishers
August 2003
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In terms of health care, Americans want incompatible results - both unlimited access to the best care and 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 book will help you meet the considerable challenge of cutting costs while enhancing service quality. It includes these sections:

Economic Incentives and Fund Flows
Product-line Specialization and Standard Costing: Selection, Risk, & Return
The Physician Marketplace
Productivity Enhancement & Incentive Compensation
Production Functions
Technology Assessment & Cost-Effectiveness
Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Value of Life and & Limb
Pricing & Market Strategy Planning
Capital Finance
Debt Financing & Capital Structure
Future Issues and Alternatives

Health Care Finance and Economics will provide you with a complete understanding of financial management and health economics. You’ll further develop your role as a manager by learning how to:

enhance productivity
develop market strategy
enhance quality
improve profitability
manage capital structure, investment decisions, and financial decisions
improve access to health care
promote managed care
learn from technology assessment studies
evaluate what a payer can do to buy prudently

Dr. Steven R. Eastaugh is professor of Health Finance and Economics at the George Washington University and an internationally acclaimed speaker, consultant, and change agent. He is a graduate of Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard JFK School of Government, Harvard Economics Department, and has a Doctor of Science in Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. His research areas include capital budgeting, financial ratio analysis, profitability and liquidity as well as cost benefit and cost effectiveness. He is the author of seven books and 109 journal articles.

In his quarter century of teaching, his has trained and inspired over three thousand healthcare managers and leaders in the US and around the world. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the American College of Healthcare Executives Edgar Hayhow award for "Best health care article of the year." Dr. Eastaugh has also done health services research in 29 countries. Dr. Eastaugh formerly taught at Cornell University and was senior staff health economist at the National Academy of Sciences.

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