Dictionary of Health Economics and Finance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826102549 ISBN 13: 9780826102546

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2006

Synopsis

Designated a Doody's Core Title!

"Medical economics and finance is an integral component of the health care industrial complex. Its language is a diverse and broad-based concept covering many other industries: accounting, insurance, mathematics and statistics, public health, provider recruitment and retention, Medicare, health policy, forecasting, aging and long-term care, are all commingled arenas....The Dictionary of Health Economics and Finance will be an essential tool for doctors, nurses and clinicians, benefits managers, executives and health care administrators, as well as graduate students and patientsÖ With more than 5,000 definitions, 3,000 abbreviations and acronyms, and a 2,000 item oeuvre of resources, readings, and nomenclature derivativesÖ it covers the financial and economics language of every health care industry sector.
- From the Preface by David Edward Marcinko

About this title

From the Publisher

"one needs to have the right words, and to use seemingly everyday terms in a way that economists and healthcare financial experts speak. Simply put, my suggestion is to refer to the Dictionary of Healthcare Economics and Finance frequently, and 'reap'".

-Thomas E. Getzen, PhD Executive Director, International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management The Fox School of Business-Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

From the Inside Flap

An Essential Tool for Every Health Care Industry Sector: * Physician, provider, and health care facility * Payer, intermediary, and insurance professiona * Layman, purchaser, and benefits manager Key Benefits & Features Include: * New terminology * Abbreviations & Acronyms * Illustrations * Climetric Equations * Cross-references to research

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826102549
• ISBN 13: 9780826102546
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 475
• Editor: Marcinko MBA CFP CMP David E., Hetico RN MHA CMP™ Hope Rachel