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.

Using these sure-fire strategies you'll become an expert at calculating a capitation rate, avoiding medical practice fraud, working with physician practice management companies, handling retirement planning for medical offices, and more! With the guide and its time-saving documents on CD-ROM, you can help clients increase revenue and contain cost; master managed care; and specialize in practice mergers, valuations, and strategic planning. How Retirement Plans Work Types of Retirement Plans Contributions and Benefit Limitations Tax Status of Contributions and Investment Returns Government Reporting and Disclosures Types of Plan Distributions Plan Distibution Options Tax and Penalties on a Retirement Plan Dealing with Personnel Management Hiring the Right People Hours of Compensation Harassment Policies

Whether in the Swiss countryside or in a doctor's office in Boston, in German, English or French hospitals or within multinational organizations, with early vaccinations or with new pharmaceuticals from Big Pharma today, or in early modern Saxon mining towns or in Prussian military healthcare – for at least 500 years, accounting has been an essential part of medical practice with significant moral, social and epistemological implications. Covering the period between 1500–2000, the book examines in short case studies the importance of calculative practices for medicine in very different contexts. Thus, Accounting for Health offers a synopsis of the extent to which accounting not only influenced medical practices over centuries, but shaped modern medicine as a whole.