Slee’s Health Care Terms

Written expressly for trustees, and others who need quick, precise information, Slee's tells you what a term means and why you need to know it in today's healthcare environment. It is an essential reference for anyone who deals with the health care industry. Used book in Good Condition. With over 8, and acronyms related to the health-care industry, 000 nonmedical words, phrases, Slee's Health Care Terms is the leading healthcare dictionary available today.

. Now in its fifth edition, it covers finance & reimbursement, governance, government regulation, legal issues, managed care, health professionals, and more.


Sultz & Young's Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery

Health system faces today. Balanced in perspective and comprehensive in its coverage, Ninth Edition, Health Care USA, provides students with a clearly organized, straightforward illustration of the complex structures, relationships and processes of this rapidly growing industry. Now with a new, highly experienced co-author Philip J.

Health care usa, medicine, ninth edition offers students of health administration, public health, and related fields a wide-ranging overview of America's health care system. Combining historical perspective with analysis of current trends, this thoroughly updated edition charts the evolution of modern American health care, including the implementation of the Affordable Care Act ACA and the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act MACRA, providing a complete examination of its organization and delivery while offering critical insight into the issues that the U.

S. Spending on prevention efforts with examples from the Flint, Gun violence, Michigan water crisis, as well as SARS and Zika . Kroth, the status of the nursing profession, hospitalists, the Ninth Edition explores new and evolving trends in the health care delivery marketplace and workforce including the forthcoming physician shortage, and the move of many physicians from small group practices to hospitals.

New to the ninth edition:• up-to-date information on the implementation of the aca woven throughout the chapters• new, acquisitions, certification, and training of physician assistants; trends in pharmacy and dentistry; nurse practitioners; hospitalists; and a new section on the increasingly important role of medical assistants• Completely overhauled chapter on Public Health including new international comparisons, comprehensive coverage of MACRA and its impact on all parts of the health care delivery system woven throughout the chapters• Coverage of new trends including mergers, and the vertical integration of health systems• New coverage in the Health Information Technology chapter on the challenges of achieving interoperability• Current information on workforce issues such as the coming physician shortage; the role, and data on U.

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Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management

Through clear explanations, and realistic practice problems, numerous examples, it arms future managers with the grounding they need to make financially sound decisions for their healthcare organizations. Particular content changes include: expanded discussion of health insurance, relative value unit, service rather than techniques Coverage of three service-line costing methods: cost-to-charge ratio, reimbursement methodologies, and the impact of healthcare reform on provider behavior A new presentation of managerial accounting material that follows a more logical progression of concepts, department, emphasizing the level of analysis organization, and activity-based costing.

This thoroughly updated edition provides more emphasis on the unique marketplace for healthcare services and additional examples from nonhospital settings, home health agencies, including medical practices, nursing homes, clinics, and managed care organizations. Plus, an introduction to time-driven activity-based costing, a method for costing at the patient level.

Updated financial accounting formats that conform to the latest American Institute of Certified Public Accountants guidance Increased coverage of the revenue cycle. The essential concepts of both accounting and financial management are covered in this best-selling healthcare finance book.


New Leadership for Today's Health Care Professionals: Concepts and Cases

This book offers a comprehensive view of the leadership competencies necessary to be successful in today's healthcare industry. Delivery system will be changing. Cases related to each chapter topic are woven into the text to help the student comprehend the practical side of the principles examined. Used book in Good Condition.

Old leadership models can no longer be effective. Each chapter is written by a leader in the healthcare industry under the guidance of the editors who have many years' experience in academia. Written with the undergraduate health professional student in mind, the book covers essential leadership concepts and offers many pedagogical features to engage the student in learning.

. With obama's healthcare Reform Plan taking form, healthcare professionals realize that the U. S. There is an expectation that a more adaptable, proactive, innovative professional is needed to lead the nation's healthcare workforce.


Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management, Second Edition

This revised edition features a new chapter devoted to the use of high-reliability concepts that help organizations achieve safety, quality, and efficiency goals. This reader-friendly book, complete with helpful charts and diagrams, examines a range of topics, from measuring performance to creating high-quality services that result in satisfied customers.

Each chapter contains a list of key words and defines important glossary terms to help you understand the vocabulary of healthcare quality management. As an added bonus to this edition, each chapter now includes an expanded list of websites that provides additional resources to customize and enhance your understanding of healthcare quality management.

Key discussions include the following topics: quality characteristics most important to healthcare stakeholders, including payers and consumers Regulatory mandates and accreditation standards that influence healthcare quality activities Proper techniques for gathering and effectively analyzing healthcare performance measurement data New technology-based services that improve the patient experience Key tactics and strategies that organizational leaders and improvement project teams must implement to accomplish quality goals Methods for redesigning healthcare processes to achieve more reliable performance Patient safety initiatives that reduce harmful medical errors Resource management activities that improve continuity of care and prevent service overuse and underuse Organizational factors that affect quality management and performance reliability Used book in Good Condition.

Used book in Good Condition. Practical examples and case studies apply quality concepts and tools to real-life situations. Introduction to healthcare Quality Management explains the basic principles and techniques of quality management in healthcare.


Organizational Behavior in Health Care

In the coming years, more system-wide changes will occur as we continue our push forward to achieve value-based health care. Using an applied focus, it provides a clear and concise overview of the essential topics in organizational behavior from the healthcare manager's perspective. The third edition offers:• more application examples of the theories and concepts throughout all chapters• New and updated case studies• Diversity chapter updated for recent demographic changes affecting the industry• Contemporary leadership chapter broadened to include collaborative leadership characteristics and skill set Used book in Good Condition.

Health care managers are quickly learning that what worked in the past may not work in the future. The U. S. Organizational behavior in health care, motivating and leading others in a constantly changing, Third Edition is specifically written for health care managers who are on the front lines every day, complex environment.

Designed for graduate-level study, this book introduces the reader to the behavioral science literature relevant to the study of individual and group behavior, specifically in healthcare organizational settings. With the passage of the affordable Care Act, the industry has experienced some of the most dynamic changes that health care managers have seen.

Health care industry continues to grow and change dramatically. Used book in Good Condition.


Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States, 11th Edition

Shah, Michael S. Contributors provide an in-depth and objective appraisal of why and how we organize health care the way we do, and cost of the health care delivery system, function, and other emerging and recurrent issues in health policy, health care management, the enormous impact of health-related behaviors on the structure, and public health.

Fundamentally, this new edition presents the realities that impact our nation’s achievement of the so-called Triple Aim: better health and better care at a lower cost. Gusmanno, Carolyn M. It addresses challenges and responses to the Affordable Care Act ACA, the implementation of Obamacare, and many new models of care designed to replace outmoded systems.

. This fully updated and revised 11th edition of a highly esteemed survey and analysis of health care delivery in the United States keeps pace with the rapid changes that are reshaping our system. Leading scholars, and educators within population health and medical care present the most up-to-date evidence-based information on health disparities, practitioners, vulnerable populations, and immigrant health; nursing workforce challenges; new information technology; preventive medicine; emerging approaches to control health care costs; and much more.

Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of health care management and administration and public health, the text addresses all of the complex core issues surrounding our health care system in a strikingly readable and accessible format. Clancy, joanne Spetz, Nirav R. Included for instructors is an instructor’s manual, powerPoint slides, Test Bank, Supplemental e-chapter on the ACA, Image Bank, Syllabus, and a transition guide bridging the 10th and 11th editions.




Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration

Pozgar once again invites the reader to explore the comprehensive range of legal issues--from tort reform and healthcare fraud to reporting requirements and patient rights. Legal aspects of health care administration, 13th Edition is an indispensable text for future healthcare administrators and one that will serve them throughout their professional lives.

The most trusted resource in healthcare law is this classic text from George Pozgar, now completely revised. Used book in Good Condition. The 13th edition presents a wide range of health care topics in a comprehensible and engaging manner that will carefully guide your students through the complex maze of the legal system.

This is a book they will hold on to throughout their careers. Healthcare administrators face an increasingly complex maze of legal issues as government regulation and health care reform evolves and corporate structures adapt to meet the changing demands of their constituencies. Pozgar provides a uniquely accessible tool for grasping the legal complexities of health care through an array or real-life case studies, precedent-making court cases, and key statistical data.

This is a book they will hold on to throughout their careers. This authoritative guide presents a wide range of health care topics in a comprehensible and engaging manner that will carefully guide your students through the complex maze of the legal system. Used book in Good Condition. With a continued emphasis on the ethical challenges of providing quality care amidst these powerful and often chaotic industry forces, the 13th Edition helps future administrators navigate the core industry issues of patient centered care, the future workforce and the culture of compassion.




Healthcare Applications: A Casebook in Accounting and Financial Management

Used book in Good Condition. Each case features assignments or questions to enhance students critical thinking and generate classroom engagement. The book s cases can be either assigned as out-of-class homework or used directly in class to introduce a topic or facilitate discussion. Healthcare managers must understand accounting and financial management concepts and be prepared to operationalize them in their organizations.

. Financial issues are of paramount importance in today s rapidly changing and increasingly competitive healthcare environment. Instructors can select case topics and difficulty levels that are most appropriate for their courses. Used book in Good Condition. Healthcare applications contains 56 short cases designed to link theory to practical, real-world application via active learning.

Based on fictitious entities and individuals unless otherwise noted, the valuation of debt or equity securities, compute financial ratios, the cases cover basic concepts such as how to record transactions, and prepare financial statements as well as more advanced issues, such as the effects of healthcare regulation, cost volume profit analysis, and capital budgeting.

Healthcare applications: a casebook in Accounting and Financial Management provides a series of practice exercises for analyzing, understanding, and applying these concepts across a wide range of healthcare settings.


Health Politics and Policy

Health care system and policy, government, and private players, such as values, and compares them to other countries for international context. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. Helpful learning features throughout include review questions and problems, supporting tables and graphs, and special "Consider This" essays that bolster chapter concepts.

In an environment of ever-changing policies and politics, the new edition seamlessly integrates themes of the past and present-day dilemmas with a look to the future of health care politics in America. A collection of writings by some of today's sharpest political minds and policy-makers, the book explores factors that shape the U.

S. Health politics and policy, from the legislative process to socioeconomic impacts, 5th Edition walks you through the inner workings of health care policymaking, and reveals both modern and historical perspectives in exciting detail.


A Pocket Style Manual

Not available Used book in Good Condition. 1319057403 9781319057404 a pocket style Manual Eighth Edition. Used book in Good Condition.