Main description:

The authors discuss useful tools and tricks of the trade in pathology practice management. In-depth chapters on coding and billing by nationally known consultant Dennis Padget will prepare you to evaluate coding and billing practices. Noted law experts Jane Pine Wood and Amelia Larsen, attorneys at McDonald Hopkins, highlight key issues in employment, insurance, and hospital contracts and provide examples of how to deal with tricky issues. Sections on human resources and group dynamics take on the vexing issues that people bring to work. Finally, the authors identify current trends and reason how these might play out.

In providing a broad overview of pathology practice management, each chapter employs a didactic framework, including one or more scenarios to illustrate challenges encountered by the writers. This case-based approach facilitates interactive learning and will thus be particularly useful to pathology training programs.

Whatever your stage in the field-from resident to senior pathologist, including those in leadership roles-Pathology Practice Management: A Case-Based Guide is essential reading.

Contents:

Section 1 Money and the Practice of Pathology

Chapter 1 Healthcare Finance and the Pathology Practice

Chapter 2 The Trend towards Outcomes, Accountable Care and Value-based Purchasing

Chapter 3 Coding and Billing

Chapter 4 Revenue Cycle Management

Chapter 5 Applying the Knowledge

Chapter 6 Current Major Trends and Considerations for the Future

Section 2 Financial Management of a Practice Overview

Chapter 7 The Income Statement

Chapter 8 More Complex Arrangements

Chapter 9 Practice Sales and Mergers

Section 3 Contracting

Chapter 10 Payor Contracts

Chapter 11 Hospital Contracts

Chapter 12 Pathologist Employment Contracts

Section 4 Human Resources

Chapter 13 Human Resources (HR) Management

Section 5 Pathology Group Issues

Chapter 14 Group Dynamics

Section 6 Better Practice Management

Chapter 15 Skills and Tools for Better Practice Management

Section 7 Managing Risks and Opportunities

Chapter 16 Professional Liability Risk

Chapter 17 Corporate and General Liability

Chapter 18 Disaster Risks and Preparedness Planning

Chapter 19 Market and Valuation Risks

Chapter 20 Technologic and Regulatory Risks

Chapter 21 Opportunities and Entrepreneurism

Chapter 22 Identifying and Capitalizing on Opportunities

Section 8 Looking Ahead

Chapter 23 The High Performing Practice into the Future

Chapter 24 Bringing It All Together

Appendix A Cases for Discussion

Appendix B You and Your Environment: Cases for Group Discussion