Financial Management of Health Care Organizations

William N. Zelman is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are Healthcare Financial Management, Cost Management, Institutional Performance Measures, Instructional Design, and Distance Learning. He is former Chair of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration's task force on Healthcare Financial Management.Michael J. McCue is Professor in the Department of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research interests include the financial analysis of multihospital systems, the cost/benefit analysis of telemedicine and the evaluation of hospital bond ratings and capital structure. He serves as Associate Editor of Health Services Management Research. He is a reviewer for Inquiry and Medical Care Review and Research as well as other health care journals.Alan R. Millikan is Associate Director for Network Development of the Duke University Health System developing hospital and physician networks. Prior to coming to Duke, he was an administrator at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Transplantation and Dialysis Programs.Noah D. Glick is Senior Healthcare Information Analyst at Integrated Healthcare Information Services, Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts. He was formerly at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in the Department of Decision Support.