Saunders' Textbook of Medical Office Management
Author: Alice Anne Andress
From personnel management to financial administration, this one-of-a-kind guide offers proven techniques and ready-to-implement strategies for running the medical office. Detailed discussions focus on interpersonal and legal aspects of patient care, as well as sound business practices - with sample consent forms, letters, and procedural policies. The 2nd edition offers new, detailed coverage of documentation guidelines, risk assessment in physician practice, auditing, and the office manager's role in compliance. It also provides the new governmental Compliance Plan guidelines for physician groups. A new, more user-friendly format includes helpful learning features for efficient recall of key facts and information.
• Practical, easy-to-use format and easy-to-read style make this book the ideal office companion.
• Samples of consent forms, letters, and procedural policies offer concrete examples to follow.
• Manager's Alert boxes point out potential pitfalls and give specific, real-world advice how to avoid them.
• Helpful From the Author's Notebook tips describe the best way to handle a variety of office problems.
• New topics include compliance, risk assessment, auditing, fraud & abuse, and new technology such as voice recognition software, credentialing software, compliance software, the Internet, e-mail, and PDAs.
• An updated chapter on The Health Care Professional offers more information and emphasizes the health care professional's role and responsibilities.
• The revised chapter on health insurance combines all information on billing, coding, and collections throughout the book into one chapter for comprehensivediscussion.
• New chapters on Fraud, Abuse and Compliance and Documentation and Risk Assessment offer up-to-date insight on these important areas.
• Many chapters have been completely updated and revised to bring this edition in line with the most current thinking in the field.
• Exercises at the end of each chapter help reinforce important concepts and facts.
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Principles of Project Finance
Author: E R Yescomb
This introduction for practitioners offers a balanced view of project financing, integrating legal, contractual, scheduling, and other areas that participate in large multiparty projects, large single-asset purchases, and broad-based financing programs for fleets of assets. It mixes theories and case studies but avoids becoming too oriented toward applications in any one particular industry. It focuses on the concepts and techniques required by project finance people without being overly academic or beset by case studies. The author, who has a legal background, recognizes that some legal information is necessary, but he doesn't attempt to write a law book. Project Finance refers to the techniques of financing projects which are dependent on cash flows for repayment, as defined by the contractual relationships within each project. By their very nature, these types of projects rely on a large number of integrated contractual arrangements for successful completion and operation. Project finance is an element within the larger field of project management. Many organizations around the world utilize project management to enable innovative processes, to plan, organize, and control strategic initiatives, to monitor enterprise performance, to analyze significant deviations, and to forecast their impact on the organization and project(s). Project management can be found in many industries today, from construction and information systems to healthcare, financial services, education, and training. Key Features:
* A comprehensive and authoritative guide to the theory and practice of project finance.
* An international scope, covering projects in both the developed and developing worlds.
* The book describes and explains:
-Sources of project finance. -Typical commercial contracts (such as those for construction of the project and sale of its product or services) and their impact on the project finance structure. -Project finance risk assessment from the points of view of lenders, investors, and other project parties. -Structuring the project finance debt. -The key issues in negotiating a project finance debt facility.
* Extensive glossary and cross-referencing.
* No prior knowledge of project finance or financing techniques is assumed.
Author Biography: Edward Yescombe is a law graduate of Oxford University. After working for Grindlays Bank in London, India and Singapore, he joined the Bank of Tokyo in London, where he set up project and other structured finance activities in 1987. In 1998 he became an independent consultant in project finance, and in 1998/9 advised the sponsor group for the Carthage power project, Tunisia's first IPP.
Booknews
A London-based consultant explains project financing as a method of raising long-term debt to finance major projects by borrowing against the cash flow generated by the project alone. It depends, he says, on a detailed evaluation of a project's construction, operating, and revenue risks; and their allocation between investors, lenders, and other parties through contractual and other arrangements. The approach has been gaining popularity over the past two decades as privatization and deregulation have dried up conventional sources of funding. The glossary doubles as a minimal index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
What People Are Saying
Michael Gerrard
This is an authoritative work written by a distinguished practitioner. I have no doubt it will quickly become a key text book... (Michael Gerrard, Head Of Public Private Partnerships, Partnerships UK PLC)
Nobuya Takezawa
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of project finance accessible to those less familiar with the subject matter, yet detailed enough to serve as a valuable reference for the experienced manager. The book covers a wide array of topics, from legal issues to valuation methods, and even hedging financial risk with financial derivatives. Given the increasing importance of project finance in Asia and the Pacific Rim, Principles of Project Finance will be an invaluable reference for academics and managers alike in this region.
—Professor Nobuya Takezawa, International Christian University, Japan
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | What Is Project Finance? | 5 |
| Ch. 3 | The Project Finance Markets | 21 |
| Ch. 4 | Project Development and Management | 33 |
| Ch. 5 | Working with Lenders | 49 |
| Ch. 6 | Project Contracts: (1) The Project Agreement | 69 |
| Ch. 7 | Project Contracts: (2) Ancillary Contracts | 105 |
| Ch. 8 | Commercial Risks | 137 |
| Ch. 9 | Macroeconomic Risks | 183 |
| Ch. 10 | Political Risks | 203 |
| Ch. 11 | Political Risk Guarantees, Insurance, and Finance | 217 |
| Ch. 12 | Financial Modeling and Evaluation | 251 |
| Ch. 13 | Financial Structuring and Documentation | 283 |
| Glossary and Abbreviations | 329 |
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