The Fifth Edition provides graduate and pre-professional students with a comprehensive, detailed overview of the numerous facets of the modern healthcare system, focusing on functions and operations at both the corporate and hospital level. The Fifth Edition of this authoritative text comprises several new subjects, including new chapters on patient safety and ambulatory care center design and planning. Other updated topics include healthcare information systems, management of nursing systems, labor and employment law, and financial management, as well discussions on current healthcare policy in the United States. The Fifth Edition continues to be one of the most effective teaching texts in the field, addressing operational, technical and organizational matters along with the day-to-day responsibilities of hospital administrators. Broad in scope, this essential text has now evolved to offer the most up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of the organizational functions of today's complex and ever-changing healthcare delivery system.

Published in association with the MGMA and written for physician leaders and senior healthcare managers as well as those involved in smaller practices, Physician Practice Management: Essential Operational and Financial Knowledge, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the breadth of knowledge required to effectively manage a medical group practice today. Distinguished experts cover a range of topics while taking into special consideration the need for a broader and more detailed knowledge base amongst physicians, practice managers and healthcare managers. Topics covered in this must-have resource include: physician leadership, financial management, health care information technology, regulatory issues, compliance programs, legal implications of business arrangements, medical malpractice, facility design, and capital financing for physician group practices.

This step-by-step guide quickly moves the reader through the major decisions and actions involved in implementing a new physician organization or MSO by addressing different organizational functions and how they are all related. Case studies demonstrate how the principles discussed can be applied to real-world situations. Topics include organizational and resource management, financial management systems, marketing, and more.

The Physician Practice Compliance Resource Manual is a comprehensive, practical resource designed specifically for the medical group practice environment. This manual will not only review the legislation governing compliance issues in group practices, it will provide practical instruction and tools for implementing a physician practice compliance program, as well as sample forms, policies and procedures to help practices get started. The material will include checklists to guide physicians in meeting Federal compliance guidelines; a suggested schedule and work plan for developing a compliance program; audit plans, including information on working with attorneys and consultants; sample discipline, waiver, billing and reporting policies, and much more. An indispensable resource, the manual will be updated annually.

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