Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, Eighth Edition

Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in it

Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach remains the most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available and provides everything you need to build a solid foundation on the field's most critical issues. This updated eight edition covers all aspects of healthcare, including finance, organization,reimbursement, the status of the Affordable Care Act and Accountable Care Organizations, the consolidation of the health system, and much more.

Clinical vignettes are used to highlight key policy issues, clarify difficult concepts,and demonstrate how they apply to real-world situations, affecting both patients and professionals alike. Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system. They carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make important health policy issues interesting and understandable.