FINAL THOUGHTS ON HEALTHCARE FINANCE

Final Thoughts on Healthcare Finance

Final Thoughts on Healthcare Finance

The environment of healthcare changes rapidly and continuously. It is an environment loaded with government regulations, massive rules, and complex structures. Healthcare encompasses many areas including acute care / hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, long-term care facilities, physicians offices, home health agencies, and managed care organizations. The most noteworthy of these are hospitals or acute care centers. Hospitals have become large, complex organizations. Technology has advanced at an almost unbelievable rate. The financing of healthcare has moved from self-pay to a complicated third-party reimbursement system.

Healthcare operational executives, ...