Financial Feasibility Studies For Healthcare

Providers are seeking to evaluate alternatives that will allow them to provide care to patients in their service area or conduct business in a more cost-effective manner. A firm grasp of market conditions, operations and financial issues is required to understand where opportunities exist to improve service, profitability and survival. The first step in this market assessment is the financial feasibility study.Financial Feasibility Studies for Healthcare helps demystify financial analysis for professionals without significant experience or formal training in this discipline. It provides a basis for nearly anyone to produce a basic analysis of existing operations or of a planned new venture. Financial Feasibility, Studies for Healthcare provides: -- Basic concepts of financial feasibility including the financial model and spreadsheet design-- An understanding of the impact of managed care and regulatory issues on the feasibility study-- Concepts of financial modeling-- Financial considerations on provider compensation-- Modeling mergers, the valuation of entities, employment agreements, operational assessment and more-- Case studies in financial feasibility-- A diskette with spreadsheet analysis and proformas for developing a feasibility studyFinancial Feasibility Studies for Healthcare is designed to teach both an introduction and advanced techniques of conducting a feasibility study in the present healthcare environment. If you are considering any type of organizational change, purchase or joint venture, then Financial Feasibility Studies its Healthcare should be your first step.

Essential for any real estate professional or student performing feasibility studies for property development using Microsoft Excel and two of the most commonly used proprietary software systems, Argus Developer and Estate Master DF. This is the first book to not only review the place of financial feasibility studies in the property development process, but to examine both the theory and mechanics of feasibility studies through the construction of user friendly examples using these software systems. The development process has seen considerable changes in practice in recent years as developers and advisors have adopted modern spread sheets and software models to carry out feasibility studies and appraisals. This has greatly extended their ability to model more complex developments and more sophisticated funding arrangements, saving time and improving accuracy. Tim Havard brings over 25 years of industry and software experience to guide students and practitioners through the theory of development appraisals and feasibility studies before providing internationally applicable worked examples and potential pitfalls using Excel, Argus Developer and Estates Master DF.

Here is a compilation of strategies and methods for health care financ ial management. How-to guidance for techniques for better budgeting us ing flexible budget variance analysis, cost prediction simulation in C ON review, discount rates for capital expenditure analysis, and more a re included. Other topics covered are downsizing, product costing, dep artmental P&Ls, cost accounting, the role of the chief financial offic er, and more. Anyone involved in the financial aspects of a health car e organization will find this volume a handy reference of the most suc cessful techniques in use today.

"This text blends accounting and finance topics related to healthcare. It covers billing, coding, financial statements, as well as the general principles of financial planning, analysis, insurance, and accounting. It melds the best of current financial theory with the tools needed in the practice of healthcare managers"--