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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Health Administration > The Family Practitioner's Survival Guide to the Business of Medicine The Family Practitioner's Survival Guide to the Business of Medicine, 2nd Edition Robert Katz Softcover ISBN 0834211521 9780834211520 Jones & Bartlett   Copyright 1998 (click the button below for the very best available price) Here it is.   This timeless guidebook addresses the three major financial centers in every physician's life: the medical practice, the pension and retirement plan, and personal finances. Listing cases and examples, the author addresses these three interrelated financial centers in a two-phase process: how to conduct practice management review and how to use this process to establish an ongoing system for successful total financial management. Plus, this second edition has new material on capitation, integrated delivery systems, mergers & acquisitions and practice valuation, pensions, and dealing with managed care companies. This highly readable and practical book includes the following chapters: Integrated Delivery Systems Pressure To Accept Capitation More Pressure To Truly Reduce Health Care Costs The Business of Health Care Summary Absolutely, Positively the Most Important Management Tool Good Suits and Financial Statements Must Be Tailor Made If They're Not on Time and Accurate, Throw 'Em Back Numbers Hardly Ever Lie Find the Bad News, or It Will Surely Find You Sometimes You Need a Scalpel and Sometimes an Axe Financial Statements in a Nutshell Physicians Can Talk about Sex Easier Than They Can Talk about Fees A Blind Person Should Always Know Where He or She Is Standing RBRVS by the Same People Who Brought You the IRS Managing Managed Care Fee Setting in a Nutshell Until It's Cash, It's Only Paper You Can Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later, Maybe Accounts Receivable in a Nutshell What You and a Mercedes Benz Have in Common You Already Have the Best Marketing People in the World Working for You Tastefully Spreading the Word Marketing in a Nutshell No Physician Is an Island If You Think Competent People Are Expensive, Try Hiring Incompetents A Word About the Bad Egg Won't Somebody Tell Me How I'm Doing? There, Under That Pile of Dust... Isn't That Our Policies and Procedures Manual? Looking for the Leader Staff Management in a Nutshell Beware of the Firm Handshake and the Big Smile; It's All the Same to Me; I'm Paid by the Hour; I'm on Commission, and I Love You Advisors in a Nutshell I Hope You're Not Depending on Social Security * So, How Much is Enough? How To Get There from Here The Best Retirement Plans for Medical Practices Retirement in a Nutshell What Exactly Are We Trying To Accomplish? The Physician's Biggest Personal Financial Mistake The Ten Commandments of Investing Risky Business The High Cost of Higher Education Out of Residency and into the Fire Computerize To Incorporate or Not To Incorporate Sources The Medical Practice Management Truths (information from the publisher) You may also be interested in / The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go Back to Pages / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore