| Course area | Health services finance, budgeting, reimbursement, performance, and strategy |
| Audience | Graduate students in health and allied health programs; early-career managers and analysts |
| Use of text | Primary study text, seminar preparation, and practicum reference |
| Includes | Concept chapters, worked examples, tables, text diagrams, templates, glossary, links, and assessment materials |
This textbook introduces the financial reasoning used to manage healthcare organizations in complex payer environments. It combines accounting, economics, operations, governance, and strategy so that learners can interpret financial statements, evaluate investment decisions, understand reimbursement, strengthen revenue cycle performance, and align scarce resources with quality, safety, equity, and sustainability.
Table of contents
The table below lists the major units of the book. Page numbers are not displayed in this static edition, but each chapter begins on a new page for easy navigation in PDF and DOCX formats.
| Unit | Contents |
| Chapter 1 | The Nature and Scope of Healthcare Financial Management |
| Chapter 2 | Health System Context, Payers, and Reimbursement |
| Chapter 3 | Financial Statements and Financial Reporting |
| Chapter 4 | Revenue Cycle and Working Capital Management |
| Chapter 5 | Cost Behavior, Cost Allocation, and Service Costing |
| Chapter 6 | Budgeting and Budgetary Control |
| Chapter 7 | Capital Budgeting and Investment Appraisal |
| Chapter 8 | Long-Term Financing, Capital Structure, and Debt |
| Chapter 9 | Pricing, Contracting, and Managed Care Negotiation |
| Chapter 10 | Financial Ratio Analysis and Dashboarding |
| Chapter 11 | Value-Based Payment, Quality, and Performance Measurement |
| Chapter 12 | Risk, Internal Control, Compliance, and Governance |
| Chapter 13 | Strategic Financial Management and Service Line Decisions |
| Chapter 14 | Healthcare Technology, Data Analytics, and Digital Finance |
| Chapter 15 | Leadership, Change, and Case Applications in Healthcare Finance |
