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Benchmarking: Moving Beyond a Metrics Beauty Pageant
The true power of benchmarking entails studying how best practice organizations achieve their top performance levels and then takes those lessons learned and adapts them for use by other provider organizations.
MaineHealth Achieves Supply Chain Collaboration Among Member Hospitals
By identifying key supply chain opportunities and process flow issues that needed correction, MaineHealth saved approximately $16 million in 2015, the first year of its overhaul; $27 million in 2016; and more than $34 million in 2017.
Chinese Investment: An Opportunity for U.S. Healthcare Organizations
With a growing middle class and a desire for improved healthcare services, China is becoming a key investor in U.S. healthcare organizations, with the goal of bringing some of their practices and services back home.
Best Practices for Improving Patient Collections
This article highlights a white paper that analyzes the results of two recently fielded surveys about the current state of patient collections and emerging best practices to improve performance.
Administration’s Budget Proposals for Fiscal Year 2019
This summary provides highlights of the healthcare proposals included in the Trump Administration's fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget.
Ask the Experts: Service Line Analysis
What are the main steps in developing a productivity benchmark model for a service line?
Ask the Experts: Medicare Adjustments During Appeals
Can we adjust a denied Medicare charge off of an account when an appeal is still open?
Ask the Experts: Denial Write-Offs
What is the best practice target for denial write-offs as a percent of net revenue?
Ask the Experts: Cash Payment Metrics
Outside of the days cash on hand (DCOH) liquidity metric, what other cash or payment term metrics are useful?
The Future of Healthcare Organizations Depends on Managing Medicare Costs
A healthcare thought leader explains the current Medicare payment system challenges and how CFOs can offset future Medicare cuts through cost containment.