Learn the key financial management skills needed to lead a medical practice. After reading this book, you'll understand the concepts, tasks, and terminology to ensure success in medical group practice management. The text covers: Translating medical practice objectives into financial assumptions to aid planning, Compiling, interpreting, and communicating financial information to physicians/shareholders and staff for education and decision making, Developing requests for proposals (RFPs), analyzing and negotiating/renegotiating contract terms favorable to the practice, Calculating business ratios and benchmarks, Analyzing the relationship of fees to coding/diagnosis for appropriate reimbursement.