Title Author, Date Comments Value-Based Cost Management for Healthcare : Linking Costs to Quality and Delivery Castenada-Mendez, 1996 A very good book by an experienced healthcare TQM practitioner. Combines the new methodologies of value added analysis and activity based costing with TQM. Potentially, this thinking could greatly improve clinical pathways as a TQM and clinical process design and management tool. More on that elsewhere on our web site. We know of one other book on Activity Based Costing in Healthcare: Activity-Based Costing and Activity--Based Management for Health Care   Other ABC Books Common Cents : The ABC Performance Breakthrough Peter B. Turney, 1991 Activity Accounting; An Activity-Based Costing Approach James A. Brimson , 1997 Activity-Based Management for Service Industries, Government Entities, and Nonprofit Organizations John Antos, James A. Brimson, 1994 Activity-Based Cost Management Making It Work : A Manager's Guide to Implementing and Sustaining an Effective ABC System Gary Cokins, 1996 An ABC Manager's Primer : Straight Talk on Activity-Based Costing Gary Cokins, 1993 Activity-Based Management : A Comprehensive Implementation Guide Other ABC Books of Interest Activity Accounting : An Activity-Based Costing Approach (Wiley/National Association of Accountants Professional Book Series) James A. Brimson,1991 Activity Based Costing : The Key to World Class Performance Peter L. Grieco,1994 Activity-Based Cost Management Making It Work : A Manager's Guide to Implementing and Sustaining an Effective ABC System ;Gary Cokins / Hardcover / Published 1996 Activity-Based Costing and Management Ernest Glad,1996 Activity-Based Costing for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses; An Implementation Guide Douglas Hicks,1997 Activity-Based Management : A Comprehensive Implementation Guide Edward Forrest,1996 Activity-Based Management : Today's Powerful New Tool for Controlling Costs and Creating Profits William H. Wiersema,1995 Common Cents : The ABC Performance Breakthrough Peter B. Turney,Published 1991 The Complete Guide to Activity-Based Costing Michael C. O'Guin, Published 1991 Cost Management : Accounting and Control Don R. Hansen,1995 An ABC Manager's Primer : Straight Talk on Activity-Based Costing Gary Cokins (Editor),1993 Activity Based Costing : The Key to World Class Performance Douglas W. Webster, 1994 Activity-Based Costing and Management Ernest Glad,1994 Cost and Effect : Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance Robert S. Kaplan, 1997 Emerging Practices in Cost Management : Activity Based Management Barry J. Brinker (Editor), 1994