Dictionary of Health Insurance and Managed Care - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826149944 ISBN 13: 9780826149947

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2006

Synopsis

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To keep up with the ever-changing field of health care, we must learn new and re-learn old terminology in order to correctly apply it to practice. By bringing together the most up-to-date abbreviations, acronyms, definitions, and terms in the health care industry, the Dictionary offers a wealth of essential information that will help you understand the ever-changing policies and practices in health insurance and managed care today.

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About this title

About the Author:

Dr. David Edward Marcinko, M.B.A., C.F.P., C.M.P., is a health care economist, lexicographer, and board certified surgical fellow at Temple University. In the past, he has edited four practice-management textbooks, three medical texts in two languages, and six financial planning books, and two C.D.-R.O.M.s for physicians, hospitals, financial advisors, accountants, attorneys, and health care business consultants. Internationally recognized for his work, he provides litigation support and expert witness testimony in State and Federal Court, with clinical publications archived in the Library of Congress and the Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Marcinko also has numerous editorial and reviewing roles to his credit. His most recent offerings from Springer Publishing Company are Dictionary of Health Economics and Finance (2006) and the forthcoming Dictionary of Health Information Technology and Security (early 2007), both co-edited with Hope Hedico. He has also edited the classic The Business of Medical Practice: Advanced Profit Maximization Techniques for Savvy Doctors, now in its second edition (Springer Publishing Company, 2004). A favorite on the lectuer circuit and often quoted in the media, he speaks frequently to medical and financial societies throughout the country.

Review:

"The Dictionary of Health Insurance and Managed Care lifts the fog of confusion surrounding the most contentious topic in the health care industrial complex today. My suggestion therefore is to 'read it, refer to it, recommend it, and reap'."
--Michael J. Stahl,PhD, Physician Executive MBA Program, William B. Stokely Distinguished Professor of Business, The University of Tennessee, College of Business Administration

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826149944
• ISBN 13: 9780826149947
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Marcinko M.B. David E., Hetico R.N. Hope Rachel