More than fifty risk managers, lawyers, and insurance professionals present the most authoritative techniques and practices of today's health care risk managers.
Completely revised and updated, the third edition of this standard handbook includes entirely new chapters on managed care and risk financing that address the important issues of cost containment and the advancements in alternate risk financing arrangements. This comprehensive resource offers everything from the basics of program development to the more sophisticated concepts of enterprise risk management.
The book contains a wealth of current information, regulatory and legal updates, and assessment tools that will prove invaluable to both novice and veteran risk managers.
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM), a personal membership group of the American Hospital Association, is the international association for more than three thousand leading professionals involved in risk management in all types and sizes of health care organizations.
Roberta Carroll, RN, ARM, MBA, CPCU, is senior vice president and manager of the healthcare unit at Aon Risk Services in San Francisco. She is a frequent speaker in the health care risk management areas of risk financing, claims administration, loss control, captive management, strategic planning and reengineering. A past president of ASHRM, she has served on its board of directors for six years and is a member of the Past President's Council.
