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In this guide Juniper Advisory and other healthcare transaction professionals explore the important points that leaders should consider and understand when evaluating and undertaking strategic organizational decisions like mergers and acquisitions. The compendium of articles offers a common-sense businessperson's summary of topics and brings detailed technical analyses to key issues.

Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) are at the forefront of delivering high-quality, cost-effective, and patient-centered care. However, the industry is at a turning point: data-driven decision-making is no longer optional but essential for success. This book provides a comprehensive roadmap for ASC leaders, covering best practices, key process steps, performance metrics, and benchmarking data across the patient journey and core administrative functions.

Are you ready for a bold, eye-opening journey through the heart of America’s healthcare system? In this galvanizing book, Christopher Voss, MD, MBA, MS, MLS, FCCP, RPNI—a multi-board-certified physician with expertise spanning Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Neurocritical Care, Pain Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Obesity Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine—pulls back the curtain on the systemic pitfalls plaguing our nation’s healthcare.

Are you ready for a bold, eye-opening journey through the heart of America’s healthcare system? In this galvanizing audiobook, Christopher Voss, MD, MBA, MS, MLS, FCCP, RPNI—a multi-board-certified physician with experience at top institutions like Stanford, UCSF, Harvard, and the NIH—pulls back the curtain on the systemic flaws undermining patient care.

Entrepreneurs are born to disrupt—but disrupting established industries like healthcare is no small feat. Drawing from her twenty-plus years of experience as a founder and business leader, Kara Trott reveals her secret sauce to succeeding in a field that’s notoriously resistant to innovation. A former lawyer turned accidental entrepreneur, Kara founded Quantum Health in 1999, spearheading healthcare navigation—and a new industry in the process.

Embark on a journey into the intricate world of medical billing and coding with "Medical Billing Essentials: A Beginner's Guide." This comprehensive book provides a step-by-step approach to mastering the fundamentals of healthcare finance, catering to beginners and seasoned professionals alike. Whether you're a student taking your first steps into the healthcare industry or a seasoned healthcare professional looking to broaden your skill set, this guide offers a solid foundation in medical billing and coding principles.

In Unavoidably Unsafe, Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke confront the prevailing beliefs surrounding childhood vaccines with unflinching scrutiny and bold insight. As seasoned physicians, they acknowledge the revered status vaccines hold in modern medicine while bravely questioning their safety and efficacy.

Navigating the complexities of the American healthcare system can be a daunting task for any medical professional, but it presents unique challenges for foreign medical graduates. "Guide to the American Healthcare System for the Foreign Medical Graduate" is an essential resource designed to demystify these challenges and provide a comprehensive roadmap to success.

Consumer protection advocate Ralph Nader praised Solved! Curing Your Medical Insurance Problems: “Who hasn’t been bewildered and outraged by lengthy, inscrutable medical bills and the tricky ways of the health insurers? …. Learn what to watch out for in this volume by authors who know the inside ways of sellers who try to take you to the cleaners.” Some say, “You get what you pay for.” If only this were true! Too often, consumers find themselves paying much more than they expected, getting much less than they bargained for. Medical care is no exception.

Dr. Peter Patterson understands that using antibiotics “just in case” is ingrained in our culture. Everyone, from health care professionals to patients and their advocates, shares the blame—but we cannot afford to let the practice continue. Becoming Good Stewards of Antibiotics is a call to action to restore and preserve antibiotic effectiveness.

This essential book helps demystify Medicare, offering listeners practical advice on how to optimize coverage and minimize costs. It offers a comprehensive comparison of Medicare Parts A & B, as well as alternative options, such as Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans. The book also offers common and uncommon questions, answered in an easy-to-follow FAQ format, practical checklists, cheat sheets, and templates to help organize and plan your Medicare journey. In addition, the book includes an exclusive Medicare Decoder that breaks down complex terminology into plain language.

Like the first book, The Covid Murders is a fictional and captivating medical detective story, this time exploring a mysterious death in a hospital in suburban Nashville, Tennessee. But like the first, it also connects this entertaining tale simply and understandably to the very real problems of American health care policy. It explains what has gone wrong with our system historically and now, including the great impact of our recent national experience with the Covid pandemic.

Work over load. Constantly changing policies. Increasing bureaucratic regulations. These are just a few of the challenges health care providers face every day; Challenges that limit the ability to provide excellent patient care. After being blinded and suffering catastrophic injuries at the hands of a drunk driver, Marcus Engel witnessed health care from the other end of the stethoscope. Through 300 hours of reconstructive facial surgery, and years of hospitalization, rehab and recovery, Marcus witnessed firsthand, the good, the bad and the ugly of patient care.

Whether a patient, health consumer, physician, nurse, health executive, or elected official, somewhere deep in our brains is this simple truth: the American health system isn’t working, and it will only get worse if we don’t do something about it. Despite spending more money per capita on healthcare than any other country in the world, the U.S. struggles to match other nations in life expectancy, health outcomes and general well-being. Meanwhile the system spends more on unnecessary, ineffective and wasteful services than what we collectively invest in K-12 education in America.

In a country where health care is increasingly driven by profit, Margin over Mission exposes the dire consequences of corporate ownership in hospitals. James Kelly, an ICU nurse with over two decades of experience, narrates a gripping account of his final year at Lovelace Women's Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico—a year marred by preventable deaths, administrative changes, and the heartbreaking loss of a once-mission-driven institution to the clutches of Wall Street.

Richard Schweid examines home health care in detail, focusing on the women who tend to our elderly and disabled loved ones and how we fail to value their work. They are paid minimum wage so that we might be absent, getting on with our own lives. The book calls for a rethinking of home health care and explains why changes are urgent: the current system offers neither a good way to live nor a good way to die.

Smarter Healthcare with AI by Dr. Hassan A. Tetteh offers a comprehensive look at the transformative power of artificial intelligence in healthcare, grounded in the author's extensive military medicine experience. Dr. Tetteh introduces the VP4 Framework—Purpose, Personalization, Partnership, and Productivity—as a model for integrating AI into medical practice effectively and ethically. This book explores how AI can revolutionize areas like medical imaging, health records analysis, and suicide prevention, presenting practical applications and real-world examples.

One box of chemicals mistaken for another. Ingredients intended to be life-sustaining are instead life-taking. Families in shock, healthcare providers reeling, and fingers starting to point. A large healthcare system's reputation hangs in the balance while decisions need to be made, quickly. More questions than answers. People have to be held accountable—does this mean they get fired? Should the media and therefore the public be informed? What are family members and the providers involved feeling? When the dust settles, will remaining patients be more safe or less safe?

The second edition of this text advocates for a transformational change in the way doctors protect their mental health, look out for their colleagues, create a kinder, more humane work culture and lead health system reform. Brimming with poignant and hopeful stories and quotes from a diverse array of doctors from many different specialties and at all career stages, the book is a celebration of the growing global interconnectedness and the changing face of the medical profession.

Aspirational healthcare offers a proven, transformative, and sustainable approach that’s easy for CEOs to implement and monitor through a dashboard. This isn't just another Band-Aid solution—it's modeled after the internationally acclaimed Nuka System of Care in Alaska. For over 20 years, Nuka has set the gold standard for patient satisfaction and reduced costs, achieving what seemed impossible: a healthcare system that genuinely works for its customers at half the cost.