Physicians and their medical practices today face innumerable problems and challenges in analyzing current market changes in the medical field. Do they understand and have the skills and knowledge to make advantageous decisions related to the increasingly complex situations in which they find themselves? Do they merge, oversee their office managers more closely, sign their own checks, and scrutinize accounts, or do they need a professional to come in and evaluate their practice and prepare a comprehensive financial assessment? This Accounting Handbook for Medical Practices gives physicians a valuable, usable, and readable journey through the proper processes of financial accounting and related issues. Sample charts, accounting formulas, and informative case studies enhance each chapter. Why Accounting and Financial Decisions Challenge Medical Practices and How to Address Them This book tells you what inefficiencies currently cost most physicians and their medical practices. In addition to providing you with financial analysis charts, you will find in these pages: General rules for accounting Detailed outlines of financial statements Audit standards Operating expense analyses Special medical practice issues Case studies Cost-accounting examples Internal control relating to medical practices Tax issues The Accounting Handbook for Medical Practices is a must-have for CPAs, accountants, physicians, physician practice management companies, hospital personnel, medical practice administrators, management consultants, and a range of others involved in related issues.

A Quick and Easy-to-Understand Accounting Resource for Medical ProfessionalsHealthcare and Medical Office Accounting is a must-have accounting guide for everyone mystified by accounting jargon but has a need to understand financial statements. This book will:-Make accounting terminology no longer a "foreign language"-Reveal the meaning of Balance Sheets and Income Statements in minutes-Help you understand Cash Flow quickly-Reduce your chance of being the victim of embezzlementWhether you are a doctor looking for a deeper understanding of your practice, a healthcare professional charged with managing an office, or a bookkeeping professional working with medical practices, this book is for you.

It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical services as opposed to increased unit prices of existing services. And an even more fundamental question is the degree to which the increased spending actually has purchased improved health. Accounting for Health and Health Care addresses both these issues. The government agencies responsible for measuring unit prices for medical services have taken steps in recent years that have greatly improved the accuracy of those measures. Nonetheless, this book has several recommendations aimed at further improving the price indices.

This book explains how to use accounts receivables as a measurement tool to determine how well a practice is managing, assess where the practice is and analyze where it could or should be. Text includes tips for new and established practices. Dennis Mock, author, teacher, and consultant, drawing on his extensive experience with health care receivables, accounts receivable management and collections of delinquent health care accounts, guides the reader through establishing and monitoring specific goals; establishing written job descriptions and office procedures pertaining to receivables, payments and complaints; developing policies related to billing cycles, dealing with cash, credit, contractual care; and use of billing systems and service bureaus. He includes discussion on managed care - requests for proposals, how to rate them, basic qualities to look for; basic methodologies of monitoring results from third party agencies, second placement use of multiple agencies; and use of new technologies to gain greater productivity and efficiencies.

A Quick, Compact, and Easy-to-Understand Resource for Non-Accountants! The perfect financial accounting guide for beginners! Accounting for Non-Accountants is the must-have guide for all of us who have never taken an accounting class, are mystified by accounting jargon, and have no clue about balance sheets, income statements, payroll management, corporate taxes, or statements of cash flows. This simple to use accounting book is bookmaking made simple. Whether you own a business, plan on starting one, or just want to control your own assets, you'll find everything you need to know: How to prepare and use financial statements How to control cash flows How to manage budgets How to use accounting ratios How to deal with audits and auditors interpret financial statements Let this book help you like it helped these readers: "Dr. Labels explanations are simple and straightforward. " "This will help me a lot as I set up my own business. " "I have worked in accounting for over twenty-five years, and this is the best book I have seen to help people with the basics of accounting." For entrepreneurs or anyone who needs to brush up on accounting fast, this book will have you up and running in no time.