"...one needs to have the right words, and to use seemingly everyday terms in a way that economists and healthcare financial experts speak…. Simply put, my suggestion is to refer to the Dictionary of Healthcare Economics and Finance frequently, and 'reap'".
-Thomas E. Getzen, PhD, Executive Director, International Health Economics Association (iHEA), Professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management, The Fox School of Business-Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
From the Publisher
"one needs to have the right words, and to use seemingly everyday terms in a way that economists and healthcare financial experts speak. Simply put, my suggestion is to refer to the Dictionary of Healthcare Economics and Finance frequently, and 'reap'". -Thomas E. Getzen, PhD Executive Director, International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management The Fox School of Business-Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
From the Inside Flap
An Essential Tool for Every Health Care Industry Sector: * Physician, provider, and health care facility * Payer, intermediary, and insurance professiona * Layman, purchaser, and benefits manager Key Benefits & Features Include: * New terminology * Abbreviations & Acronyms * Illustrations * Climetric Equations * Cross-references to research
From the Back Cover
"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 " About the Author
Dr. David Edward Marcinko, MBA, CFP, CMP, is a health care economist, lexicographer, and board certified surgical fellow at Temple University.
Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CMP™ has authored and edited a dozen major textbooks and is a nationally known expert in managed care, reimbursement, case management, health insurance, quality and utilization review, and Joint Commission regulations. Previously, she was national corporate Director for Medical Quality Improvement at Apria Healthcare.
