Lola Butcher
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Lola Butcher
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Negotiating a Joint-Venture Health Plan
Aspirus is one of many health systems that partner with insurance companies to form joint-venture health plans that bring healthcare financing and delivery closer together.
Contracting for Chronic Disease Management
Illinois Gastroenterology Group negotiated a specialty intensive medical home contract with the state’s largest private payer.
Partnering With Healthcare Purchasers
Mount Sinai Health System partnered with a trade union to develop a bundled-payment program designed to improve patient outcomes and reduce the purchaser’s costs.
Winning Direct Contracts with Employers
Pacific Business Group on Health, a leader in direct contracting, uses an extensive evaluation process to choose the provider organizations for its Employers Centers of Excellence Network.
When Patients Decline To Buy Exchange Coverage
Three revenue cycle leaders explain how their organizations extend financial assistance to patients who decline to obtain coverage from an insurance exchange, even though they are eligible to do so.
How CHRISTUS Health Supports Exchange Enrollment
CHRISTUS Health appoints regional executives who work with coalition partners to reach market-specific health insurance exchange enrollment goals.
Revenue Cycle: Cost Center or Strategic Asset?
“If you begin to view your revenue cycle as an asset versus overhead, you begin to make strategic investments in that asset and you begin to develop and grow that asset,” says Jeffery Hurst of Florida Hospital.