Health Care Financial Management for Nurse Managers: Applications in hospitals, long-term care, home care, and ambulatory care

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2005 - 419 pages
This text applies financial concepts to various health care settings, details how reimbursement varies between these settings, and teaches nurse managers how to effectively manage financial data specific to each setting. The chapters on long-term care explain the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI), including the Minimum Data Set (MDS), as well as how to best manage long term care resources. The home care chapters explore how home care is financed, and how to administrate financial resources in a home health agency. In the chapters on ambulatory care, the text discusses the ins and outs of reimbursement in primary care.

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Contents

Hospital Issues
1
Reimbursement Issues
15
What Things Impact the Bottom Line for Hospitals?
24
Discharge Planning and Retrospective Review
51
What Is Benchmarking?
57
Other Evaluation MeasuresQuality TQM CQI QI and
64
HIP What?
76
3
117
58
288
Managing Resources
291
60
298
Budget Types
299
Expenses
307
Defending Your Budget
317
Ambulatory Care Issues
323
62
329

Nursing Hours per Patient
127
Developing a Core Staffing Plan
133
Smith ND MSN RN CNAA
157
Developing the Variable and Fixed Salary Budget
164
Comments Related to the Variable Salary Budgets
171
References
177
Avoidable or Unavoidable Issues
197
The Current 44 RUGIII Categories
230
Implications for Nurse Administrators
238
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the MDS
243
51
245
55
257
Home Care Issues
271
56
278
Administrative Operations
335
Key Points Regarding Current Procedural Terminology CPT
341
Diagnosis Coding with ICD9CM
348
Appendix
356
Appendix
363
Managing ResourcesBudgeting in Ambulatory Care
371
Charges and Costing Out of Services
387
Understanding the Budget Sheet
395
159
401
Louise Gifford MSN
402
186
410
Determining Staff Mix
414
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Dr. Janne Dunham-Taylor is currently a professor teaching nursing administration graduate courses at both master's and doctoral levels. Previously she has been a head nurse, nursing supervisor, and director of nursing in a state hospital, a university hospital, and a teaching hospital. She has been a chair, an assistant dean and has held two acting dean positions, as well as being a chair, in university settings. She has taught nursing administration courses for 23 years. Her research has been concerned with transformational leadership at the CNO level nationally. She has numerous publications on various nursing administration topics. Mr. Joseph Pinczuk has 39 years of hospital and healthcare experience with 29 years in Executive positions overseeing Finance, Administration and Operations. He has been a Chief Financial Officer at 6 hospitals ranging from 55 beds to a tri-county hospital group of 254 beds total. He has also been a CFO for a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) consisting of 285 residential units, 75 skilled nursing beds and 24 assisted living beds. He served as an Adjunct Professor at University of Akron, College of Nursing, located in Akron, Ohio

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