Fundamentals of Health Care Financial Management
A Practical Guide to Fiscal Issues and Activities
Chapter One
JANUARY
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter, you should be able to
* Recite the massive amount of dollars that flow through the health
care industry
* Describe the importance of health care financial management
in America
* Explain the role and objective of health care
* Describe the twofold purposes of financial management
* Recognize the categories of providers that make up the health
care industry
* Determine how a hospital finance administrator begins to operate
within the structure of annual calendar of finance events
* Build a hospital pro forma financial statement in order to determine
if a major project should be approved
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