Money and Outpatient Psychiatry: Practical Guidelines from Accounting to Ethics

Hardcover: 416 pages
ISBN 0393704408
W. W. Norton & Company
May 2005
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This is a comprehensive guide to money matters in the office - from working with patients to working with financial institutions.

Money management issues pervade all psychiatric practices, yet they are never discussed in school. This book is an all-in-one guide for the practitioner seeking to understand and master topics such as:

accounting
billing
collecting fees
contract law and informed consent
fee reductions and increases
payments and gifts (from patients as well as drug companies)
nonpayment, and
taxes.

"Covers many issues not usually revealed in grad school, which all practitioners need to know…managed care, drug companies…and more." -- The Bookwatch

"Very valuable, well-written...of particular importance and utility for those starting out... Well worth the time for all the rest of us." -- Psychiatric Services

"This book has no serious competition and should be of great use to clinicians in independent practice." -- Leonard J. Haas, PsycCritiques

Cecelia M. Mikalac lives in Ashland, Massachusetts.

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