Capital Budgeting Analysis for Medical Equipment

A comprehensive "users manual" for analyzing a medical imaging capital budget project.The book utilizes a step by step approach based on a case scenario for introducing the concept of medical equipment capital budgeting assessment and evaluation.The case scenario is the acquisition of an MRI equipment by a for-profit hospital.The target audience is students and professionals involved into consulting, managing, planning and assessment of health care financial investments.Although...
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A comprehensive "users manual" for analyzing a medical imaging capital budget project.The book utilizes a step by step approach based on a case scenario for introducing the concept of medical equipment capital budgeting assessment and evaluation.The case scenario is the acquisition of an MRI equipment by a for-profit hospital.The target audience is students and professionals involved into consulting, managing, planning and assessment of health care financial investments.Although traditionally health care finance books introduce the principles of capital budgeting methods and then advance to investment evaluation approaches, this book attempts a different approach. It utilizes as a vehicle a case base scenario for becoming the reader's "user manual" in evaluating capital budgeting decisions. It is written in a format, that the reader could replicate for directly applying it to his/hers specific problem.