Cost Effectiveness of Health
Cost Effectiveness of Health Report, November 2023
December 19, 2023
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Sponsored by Kaufman Hall
The issue of HFMA’s Cost Effectiveness of Health Report, sponsored by Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, leads off with the latest entry in HFMA’s Healthcare 2030 series, which focuses on the challenge associated with addressing social determinants of health. Other articles explore the benefits of payer scorecards and the need to prepare for new regulations aimed at stopping inappropriate information blocking.
SDoH
SDoH convener or leader?
By Jeni Williams
Part 3 of the latest edition of HFMA’s Healthcare 2030 report series examines the extent of the role hospitals and health systems should play in addressing the nation’s challenges with social determinants of health (SDoH).
Payer-provider collaboration
Payer scorecards hold promise for promoting an enhanced payer-provider equilibrium
By Eric C. Reese, PhD
The increasing adoption and refinement of payer scorecards across the U.S. healthcare system may prove to be a strong force for reducing tensions that have long defined the payer-provider relationship.
Interoperability
6 steps to prepare now for looming information-blocking requirements
By Rita Bowen and Anthony Murray
Given that the likelihood that CMS’s healthcare information-blocking requirements under the 21st Century Cures Act will become effective in 2024, it is not too soon to start preparing for compliance now.
Innovation and Disruption
Efforts to revitalize healthcare in Chicago’s South Side underscore a critical national challenge
David W. Johnson
The United States continues to struggle with daunting inner-city health and healthcare problems borne out innate social inequities. An initiative on Chicago’s South Side encapsulates the potential and perils of system restructuring.
Capital Finance
It may be time to terminate legacy interest rate hedges
Sponsored by Kaufman Hall
By Chuck Kirkpatrick and Marek Kowalewski, CFA
In a higher-interest-rate environment, improved valuations on fixed payer swap positions may provide an opportunity to terminate those positions.
