TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 23. Finance in the Health Care Sector A1 - Kazi, Farshid A1 - Amin, Alpesh A2 - McKean, Sylvia C. A2 - Ross, John J. A2 - Dressler, Daniel D. A2 - Brotman, Daniel J. A2 - Ginsberg, Jeffrey S. PY - 2012 T2 - Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine AB - Hospital spending accounts for a disproportionate portion of health care expenditures in the United States and hospitals will continue to be under constant pressure to improve efficiency with increasingly limited resources. Understanding the flow of money in health care has become an integral part of medicine. As health care reform reshapes a competitive environment, hospitals, hospitalist leaders, and practitioners need a common language and framework as they navigate hospital operations, set budgets for their employees, and achieve financial success. Hospitalists and hospitalist medical directors must be fiscally savvy in order to survive the challenging world of health care. Although a hospital administrator carries out much of the detailed analysis, the hospitalist medical director is responsible for the operation of the practice, which includes managing the Hospital Medicine's group budget. Beyond billing, the director should be informed of the status of all other revenue resources, including capitated payments, stipends, and other monies. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/23 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56192492 ER -