Next Steps for Physician Leaders
The future of healthcare delivery in the United States will depend on physician leadership, with strong support from administrative leaders.
Contemplating the Potential Impact of the AHCA
Understanding legislation proposed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is important, given that a bill to repeal and replace the ACA seems inevitable.
Improving Point-of-Service Collections
A Colorado-based health system developed an innovative tool to better track and improve patient collections.
Key Questions for Achieving Systemness
Healthcare organizations can start a “systemness” initiative by answering key questions.
UC Health at a Glance
University of California health operates on five campuses.
Leveraging Scale for Value in a Decentralized System
A major initiative to bring University of California Health’s five campuses together as a system began with a successful revenue cycle project.
Next-Generation Investments for Today’s Healthcare CFO
Two trends that anticipate the future of U.S. health care involve the emergence of hospital command centers and super-partnerships between providers and technology vendors.
Measuring and Managing Patient Profitability
Activity-based costing helps providers achieve profitability by enabling them to trace the consumption of resource expense through activities performed to deliver healthcare services to patients.
Maximizing Out-of-Network Payment for Patients with ACA Exchange Products
Hospitals should take steps to ensure the receive the full payment to which they are entitled for out-of-network patients enrolled in health plans purchased on the Affordable Care Act insurance exchange.
Rethinking the Targets
Healthcare leaders should focus value-based payment efforts on the areas with the greatest potential ROI.