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Extremely practical and packed with current examples, Introduction to Health Care: Finance and Accounting delivers a comprehensive overview of the business side of healthcare. This entry-level healthcare finance book offers detailed discussions of cost reimbursement programs, economic factors driving the rising costs of medical services, and healthcare reform through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. It explains the basics of healthcare accounting and finance, from accounting fundamentals, operating the cash drawer and bank reconciliation through the more complex issues of cash management, budgeting and variance analysis, and revenue cycle management.

Carlene Harrison is dean of the School of Allied Health at Hodges University, where she has overall responsibility for degree programs in health administration, health studies, medical assisting and health information technology. She has been a faculty member at Hodges since 1992. Prior to becoming a full-time educator in 2000, she worked for more than twenty years as a healthcare administrator. Employed primarily in the outpatient setting, she worked with for-profit, not-for-profit, and public health organizations. She has written five successful health care books. Dr. Harrison earned her doctorate from Argosy University, with dissertation research in the field of improving critical thinking in adult learners.

William Harrison's 30-year career in finance includes service as finance director for a variety of municipalities throughout the country. Additionally, he spent time as an auditor for the state of Colorado where he was assigned to audit the finances of various healthcare agencies.