Strategic Management for Health Care Entities : Creative Frameworks for Financial & Operational

The health care industry is moving from an emphasis on cost containment to a growing fascination with the concept of value. How is value created? How can it be assessed? Strategic Management for Health Care Entities provides a creative, integrative, and practical road map for addressing these questions.

Highlights include:-

• The integration of financial and accounting analysis with quality of care and outcomes reporting.

• How medical facility and service codes can be used for competitor analysis and strategic market assessment.

• A newly developed medical technology index that serves as a benchmark in the strategic assessment of community hospitals.

Strategic Management for Health Care Entities provides a framework for considering the changes still to come as providers, payers, and the public define new types of accountability and search for common ground in creation greater health care value.

About the Author
Foreword by Stephen M. Shortell
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I : The Health Care Environment-An Overview
Chapter 1. : Entities Providing Health Care Services to Individuals
Chapter 2. : Macroaccounting Reports of the Health Care System
Chapter 3. : Competitive Analysis of Health Care Entities in the Marketplace

Part II : Financial Reporting
Chapter 4. : Balance Sheets, Fund Accounting, and Net Assets
Chapter 5. : Statement of Operations, Changes in Net Assets, Income and Retained Earnings
Chapter 6. : Financial Statements of Health Care Entities With High-Risk Contracts
Chapter 7. : Statements of Cash Flows
Chapter 8. : Investments, Related Party Transactions, and Other Reporting Issues
Chapter 9. : Financial Statement Analysis

Part III : Management Control
Chapter 10. : Cost Analysis for Decision Making
Chapter 11. : Cost Measurement and Matching Issues in Health Care Entitles
Chapter 12. : Activity-Based Costing in Health Care Entities
Chapter 13. : Product Life-Cycle Costing and Different Costs for Various Purposes
Chapter 14. : Management Control and Budgeting Issues
Chapter 15. : Physician Performance, Variance Analysis, and Management Control

Part IV : Health Care Services
Chapter 16. : Forecasting Health Services by Patients Within a Health Care Facility
Chapter 17. : Product Costing and Management
Chapter 18. : Assessing Mergers, Closures, and Distressed Health Care Facilities

Part V : Financial Management
Chapter 19. : Cash Management and Short-Term Financing
Chapter 20. : Risk Management, Insurance, and Assessing Third-Party Payers
Chapter 21. : Capital Structure and Long-Term Financing
Chapter 22. : Issuing Tax-Exempt Securities and Bond Ratings

Glossary of Acronyms
Index