Financial Management for Health-System Pharmacists

In an era of skyrocketing drug costs, changing reimbursement, pharmacist and technician shortages, and a seemingly permanent "do-more-with less" era of hospital and health system management, every management decision that a pharmacy manager makes has financial implications. Success as a manager means understanding and then mastering the basics of finance and accounting as practiced in institutional health care. This work will provide pharmacy managers with a set of fundamental financial management tools as they relate not only to pharmacy department management but to the management of the hospital and health care system as well.