Essentials of Health Care Finance: A Comprehensive Guide for Health Care Management Students and Executives

By William O. Cleverley, James O. Cleverley, and Ashley V. Parks, Essentials of Health Care Finance expertly blends the topics of accounting and finance to provide a relevant, readable, and easily applied resource for health care management students and executives.

This authoritative guide explores finance theory and its practical application in health care across a wide range of facilities, including hospitals, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, surgical centers, physician practices, and integrated health systems.

Updated Edition with Enhanced Features

The Ninth Edition of Essentials of Health Care Finance has been carefully revised to include additional reflection, examples, and application, making it accessible to individuals with no healthcare experience. New features include:

• Elaboration on key concepts such as physician practice management, flex budgeting, and strategic financial planning
• Trends in national health expenditures and physician organizations and alignment
• Changes in health services financing and utilization since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
• Notable changes in payment methodologies
• Updated information on billing, coding, and documentation of health care services in specific settings
• A thoroughly revised Chapter 4 providing an overview of current legal and regulatory provisions impacting today’s healthcare manager
• Updated information on the health policy environment with added examples
• New chapter questions and scenarios
• Excel formulas for important financial mathematics equations and ratios
• Updated information on reimbursement for long-term care and home health organizations, including the significant changes in their payment models introduced in 2019

Product Details

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Edition: 9th edition (December 22, 2023)

Language: English

Format: Paperback, 600 pages

ISBN-10: 1284203786

ISBN-13: 978-1284203783