Healthcare Financial Management: Applied Concepts and Practical Analyses

Healthcare Financial Management: Applied Concepts and Practical Analyses is a comprehensive and engaging resource for students in health administration, health management, and related programs. It brings together the problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills that students need to thrive in a variety of health administration and management roles.

Engaging case studies, practice problems, and data sets all focus on building the core skills and competencies critical to the success of any new health administrator. Real-world examples are explored through a healthcare finance lens, spanning a wide variety of health care organizations including hospitals, physician practices, long-term care, and more. Core conceptual knowledge is covered in detailed chapters, including accounting principles, revenue cycle management, and budgeting and operations management. This conceptual knowledge is then brought to life with an interactive course project, which allows students to take ownership of and apply their newly-acquired skills in the context of a nuanced real-world scenario.

Healthcare Financial Management is an engaging and thorough resource that will equip students with both the theoretical and practical skills they need to make a difference in this dynamic and rapidly-growing field.

Key Features:

• Student-focused textbook that builds critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making skills around financial strategy, financial management, accounting, revenue cycle management, budgeting and operations, and resource management
• 20+ years of the author’s professional industry experience is applied to the textbook theory, preparing students for the complexities of real-world scenarios
• Microsoft Excel exercises accompany the standard healthcare finance calculations, for hands-on practice and application of concepts
• Chapter case studies based on timely subject matter are presented at the end of every chapter to reinforce key concepts
• An interactive course project demonstrates the entire healthcare finance role by bringing together the healthcare finance concepts and calculations in an all-inclusive exercise
• E-book access – included with every printed copy purchase, accessible on most mobile devices (also available as an E-book only)

Cassandra R. Henson, DPA, MBA is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the College of Health Professions at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Henson has held leadership positions in the corporate finance, local government, healthcare and defense contracting industries. Her areas of specialization are financial analysis, budgeting, project management, contract pricing and negotiation, auditing, compliance, and strategic planning. She is the president of the ASPA Maryland Chapter, chair elect for the Section on Health and Human Services Administration, and general member for the Section on Public Administration Education. Her research interests include local government performance measurement and management, healthcare administration pedagogy, public administration pedagogy and health economics.