This work is an essential tool for every health care industry sector including physician, provider, and health care facility; payer, intermediary, and insurance professional; and layman, purchaser, and benefits manager. Key benefits and features include: new terminology; abbreviations and acronyms; illustrations; climetric equations; and, cross-references to research.
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Designated a Doody's Core Title!
""Medical economics and finance is an integral component of the health care industrial complex. Its language is a diverse and broad-based concept covering many other industries: accounting, insurance, mathematics and statistics, public health, provider recruitment and retention, Medicare, health policy, forecasting, aging and long-term care, are all commingled arenas....The
Dictionary of Health Economics and Finance will be an essential tool for doctors, nurses and clinicians, benefits managers, executives and health care administrators, as well as graduate students and patients? With more than 5,000 definitions, 3,000 abbreviations and acronyms, and a 2,000 item oeuvre of resources, readings, and nomenclature derivatives? it covers the financial and economics language of every health care industry sector.""
- From the Preface by
David Edward Marcinko "