Stands firmly in its place as the leading textbook on health care finance.

1.Financial information and the decision-making process -- 2. Billing and coding for health services -- 3. Financial environment of health care organizations -- 4. Legal and regulatory environment -- 5. Revenue determination -- 6. Managed care -- 7. General principles of accounting -- 8. Financial statements -- 9. Accounting for inflation -- 10. Analyzing financial statements -- 11. Financial analysis of alternative health care firms -- 12. Strategic financial planning -- 13. Cost concepts and decision making -- 14. Product costing -- 15. The management control process -- 16. Cost variance analysis -- 17. Financial mathematics -- 18. Capital project analysis -- 19. Consolidations and mergers.