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M P Lash

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Financing hospitals and clinical pharmacy services.

This article describes the existing health care operating environment and specifically details the reimbursement pressures within the hospital milieu. The paper outlines several financial management subjects that have special relevance to financing clinical pharmacy services. The process of developing new clinical pharmacy services which were subsequently approved for third-party payment is highlighted. The article optimistically concludes that new and extremely relevant clinically oriented pharmacy programs that offer valuable service to the patient population can be developed and implemented with approval for reimbursement.

Cost Control↗

Developing and implementing a personnel budget report.

Few issues are as vital to the health care industry as those surrounding the notion of cost containment and cost control. If hospital executives are to gain a handle by which to institute programs of cost containment, however, they must have access to pertinent and timely information on hospital operations. Because labor costs represent such a large percentage of total hospital costs, a personnel budgeting report can be a useful first step in gaining valuable management information.

Budgets↗