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Another Innovative Strategy: Create Your Own Drug Company
The primary goal of Intermountain Healthcare’s not-for-profit generic drug company is to help patients by eliminating drug shortages.
Ask the Experts: CJR Physician Gain Sharing Agreements
Are boilerplate CJR physician gain sharing agreement templates available or should agreements be created from scratch?
Level of Costing Detail in Aurora’s System
Aurora Health Care developed detailed categories for its cost accounting initiative by considering the future and estimating how health system leaders would want to use the data in the future.
Some M&A Transactions Reduce Costs
More than two thirds of hospital merger and acquisition transactions accomplish at least some of their cost reduction goals, according to a recent survey of financial executives by Deloitte and HFMA. However, savings can take several years to realize. Approximately 40 percent of respondents said they achieved 25 percent or more of their cost-reduction goals. Hospital Finance Executives Report Cost Savings from M&As
Ask the Experts: Denial Contract Language
What contract language would you recommend to assist with denial prevention?
Ask the Experts: Medicare Small Balance Payments
Is there any concern if copayment under a certain amount are written off?
Understanding Value
HFMA President and CEO Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, talks about the need to develop a shared understanding of value.
Video: The Benefits of Behavioral Economics
David Asch, MD, executive director of the Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Innovation, discusses how behavioral economics can help the healthcare industry enable health-oriented behavior.
Pursuing Data-Driven Workforce Management
This article discusses how Premier Inc. partners with health systems to reimagine workforce management, offering integrated data and advisory services to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and drive performance.
CEOs Meet to Discuss Critical Healthcare Trends
This article highlights a white paper that shares top insights from a Fall 2017 gathering of senior healthcare leaders. Within the meeting, executives offered their perspectives on healthcare trends and gave recommendations for future work.