Abstract
Healthcare industry is subject to changes relating to service cost management with the changes involving regulation and policies ranging from federal to the state as well as the payment systems; all affecting healthcare institutions decision-making in addiion t o budgeting. The analysis used the case of West Florida Hospital that offers an extensive array of treatment and rehabilitative services mainly providing services to individuals having activity limitations. The institution has been identified to have been applying flexible budgeting, as well as a combination of pay systems. Those systems include the use of codes in billing as well as the Continue reading...