Basics of the U.S. Health Care System provides a broad introduction to the workings of the U.S. health care system. Engaging and activities-oriented, the text offers an accessible overview of the major concepts of healthcare operations; the role of government and public health; inpatient, outpatient, and long-term care services; payors and financing; careers; legal and ethical issues; and more.

Combining historical perspective with analysis of current trends, Sultz & Young's Health Care USA  charts the evolution of modern American health care, providing a complete examination of its organization and delivery while offering critical insight into the issues that the U.S. health system faces today.

Building on the legacy of its prior successful editions,  new co-authors James Johnson, Kim Davey, and Richard Greenhill lend their deep expertise in health services planning, administration, quality assessment, and teaching to the Tenth Edition by providing an updated, wide-ranging, and timely view of today's health care delivery system.

Cases in Health Care Management is a collection of over 100 new and cutting-edge case studies designed to help illustrate the challenges related to managing the health care services. Organized into nine content areas, from Leadership, Management, and Quality/Patient Safety; to Health Disparities and Cultural Competence, Ethics, and more, these realistic scenarios span the full spectrum of issues that can arise in a variety of health care service settings.

Baker's Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers, Sixth Edition is the most practical and applied text for those who need a solid understanding of health care financial management. Using actual examples from hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies, this user-friendly text includes practical information for the nonfinancial manager charged with budgeting. 

Ideal for an introductory course in financial accounting in health care, Accounting Fundamentals for Health Care Management provides current and future healthcare managers with a solid foundation in the financial accounting and analysis skills needed within health care organizations. Students will learn how to assess financial information, ask the appropriate questions, and understand the jargon-laden answers.

 Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Fourth Edition analyzes current U.S. health policy and proposes various alternatives for developing future health policy without pushing a single solution set-rather, it considers the viewpoints of health economics, political science, health technology assessment, evaluation, and health services research.

Health Care Ethics and the Law is a comprehensive, practical resource designed for those preparing for a career in healthcare management. In 16 chapters, the text explains and illustrates ethical principles and their application in the real world, including material that is consistently cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and the nation's highest appellate courts. The book also explores substantive theories of classic ethicists in the Western world, along with current scholarly literature from the nation's leading ethicists.

Digital Health Care: Perspectives, Applications, and Cases explores the trends, perspectives, and cases of Digital Healthcare and Informatics (DHI) that are transforming healthcare across the globe. Organized in 5 major connecting parts, this well-conceived text begins by laying out foundational DHI themes before focusing in on key DHI core technologies, developments, methods and challenges - from big data analytics & artificial intelligence to security and privacy issues, clinical decision support systems, consumer health informatics, and more.  It then explores DHI emerging technologies (e.g. sensors and wearable electronics), and concludes with short case studies and critical case questions designed to reinforce conceptual understanding.

Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System, Sixth Edition is a clear and concise distillation of the major topics covered in the best-selling Delivering Health Care in America by the same authors. Written with the undergraduate in mind, this reader-friendly, well organized resource covers the major characteristics, foundations, and future of the U.S. health care system, while also clarifying the complexities of health care organization and finance and presenting a solid overview of how the various components fit together.

Written for those who have little or no management training, Umiker's Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor comprehensively covers what the new health care manager will need to know to be successful in their career. Through real world cases studies, readers gain insight into a supervisor's day-to-day interactions with patients, colleagues, outside stakeholders, and their employees. 

Health Care Finance and the Mechanics of Insurance and Reimbursement, Third Edition combines financial principles unique to the health care setting with the methods and process for reimbursement (including coding, reimbursement strategies, compliance, financial reporting, case mix index, and external auditing). It explains the revenue cycle, correlating it with regular management functions; and covers reimbursement from the initial point of care through claim submission and reconciliation.

Blending the topics of both accounting and finance, Essentials of Health Care Finance is a relevant, readable, and easily applied resource for health care management students and executives that explores finance theory and its practical application in health care across a full range of facilities, from hospitals, home health agencies, and skilled nursing facilities to surgical centers, physician practices, and integrated health systems.

Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fifth Edition provides students of public health, medicine, nursing, public policy, and health administration with an introduction to a broad range of seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, analytic frameworks for studying these complex issues, and an understanding of the ways in which health policies and laws are formulated, implemented, and applied. 

One of the most trusted resources on health care law, Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration, Fourteenth Edition is an ideal introduction to to the legal and ethical issues in the healthcare workplace, exploring a wide range of health care topics - from tort reform and healthcare ethics to patient rights and managed care.  Written in a comprehensible and engaging manner, this indispensable text will carefully guide your students through the complex maze of the legal system and  will serve them throughout their professional lives.

Written by Healthcare Quality experts and applicable to all practice settings across the continuum of care, HQ Solutions: Resource for the Healthcare Quality Professional, Fifth Edition is an essential resource that offers healthcare quality professionals the theoretical and practical foundations for safe, reliable, cost-effective care.  Consistent with current professional knowledge, it includes state-of-the-art tools for improvement and examines the fundamentals for the following seven domains: quality leadership and integration, quality review and accountability, regulatory and accreditation, patient safety, performance and process improvement, health data analytics, and population health and care transitions.