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.
D003363:Cost Control; D005376:Financial Management; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics*; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000191:economics*; D009820:Ohio; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration