The Business of Healthcare
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The Business of Healthcare

Essential Lessons for Emerging Healthcare Leaders

Medicine is a calling — and a business. This book distills the financial, legal, strategic, and leadership fundamentals every clinician and rising healthcare leader needs, one concise lesson at a time.

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By Edward J. Kroger, MD, JD, MBA — physician, attorney, and healthcare executive

Faculty at University of Houston· Rice University· University of Miami
The Book

The course in healthcare business you never got in training

Clinicians are handed enormous responsibility for organizations they were never taught to run. The Business of Healthcare closes that gap: plain-English lessons on how healthcare really works — how the money flows, how the law constrains and protects, how strategy gets set, and how leaders earn trust.

01

Lessons, not lectures

Concise, practical chapters sized for a working clinician's schedule — each one a lesson you can put to use immediately.

02

Disciplines in one place

Business strategy, finance, law and regulation, and leadership — the full picture, from an author credentialed in all of them.

03

Audience in mind

Physicians, nurses, administrators, and students stepping into leadership — anyone whose next role demands more than clinical excellence.

About the Author

Edward J. Kroger, MD, JD, MBA

Edward J. Kroger is a physician, attorney, and healthcare executive who has spent his career at the intersection of medicine, law, and business. He led a Houston healthcare law firm for more than two decades, argued the Texas Medical Peer Review Privilege before the Texas Supreme Court, and now serves as chief legal officer of a major Houston nonprofit organization.

He is the founding director of the Master of Healthcare Leadership program at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business, and teaches healthcare business, law, and leadership at the University of Houston, Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, and the University of Miami.

Physician (MD) Attorney (JD) MBA Chief Legal Officer Professor of Practice
Speaking & Consulting

Bring the business of healthcare to your organization

Edward speaks to health systems, medical groups, boards, associations, and universities — keynotes, board retreats, grand rounds, and executive education built on three decades in the field.

1

Healthcare as a Business

How the U.S. healthcare system actually works — incentives, payment, and power.

2

The Business of Healthcare: Essential Lessons

The keynote built on the book — the lessons emerging leaders need first.

3

Private Equity and Medical Practice

What PE ownership means for physicians, patients, and practice value.

4

Strategic Leadership in Healthcare

Setting direction and leading through volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

5

Governing Under Pressure

The essential responsibilities of boards and C-suite executives.

6

Developing Your Philosophy of Leadership

Building a durable personal foundation for leading others.

7

How (Not) to Get Sued for Medical Malpractice

A litigator's field guide to staying out of the courtroom.

Also available for: executive education programs for physicians and healthcare leaders · advisory and board service · healthcare legal consulting.

Contact

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Speaking, consulting, executive education, and media inquiries — or sign up to hear when the book launches.

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