Author Brian Garavaglia, Ph.D., FACHCA, offers new and updated tips and tools that break down the confusing and often foreign, financial side of healthcare. This one-of-a-kind resource offers step-by-step instructions, and helpful charts that translate the confusing language, number crunching, and report reading into information that managers can apply to budget planning and preparing in long-term care settings.

Finance, Budgeting & Quantitative Analysis: A Primer for Nursing Home Administrators will give you:

- Concise explanations of the finance and budget cycle in nursing homes for non-financial professionals
- Real-world examples and case studies that illustrate the right way to manage finance and budgeting
- All the forms necessary to successfully manage the budget
- Clarification of how revenue and budgeting intersect and the effect it has on the bottom line
- Description of the SNF and PPS revenue challenges and how they affect financial planning

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The General Accounting Procedure
Chapter 2: Financial Statements
Chapter 3: Debits, Credits, and Postings to Accounts
Chapter 4: The Accounting Cycle
Chapter 5: Inventory
Chapter 6: Planning and Budgeting
Chapter 7: Cost Containment in Long-Term Care
Chapter 8: PPDs As the Benchmark for Measurement
Chapter 9: Labor Costs
Chapter 10: The Staff
Chapter 11: Medicaid, Medicare, and Third-Party Payment
Chapter 12: The Financial Implications for Insurance Policies
Chapter 13: Consolidated Billing and the MDS
Chapter 14: Quantitative Analysis for Long-Term Care Administrators Traditional Scientific Tenets
Chapter 15: Common Quantitative Analytical Techniques for Healthcare Administration
Chapter 16: Correlation: The Importance of Measuring Relationships between Variables
Chapter 17: Inferentially Based Statistical Procedures
Chapter 18: The Time Value of Money
Chapter 19: Planning Through the Use of Networks
Chapter 20: Economic Principles
Chapter 21: Mathematical Review
Chapter 22: References and Suggested Readings

Tools

When you purchase this book, you will also receive on-line access to a number of valuable tools, which you can download straight to your desktop, then customize to fit your specific needs.