Attendee Feedback: How to Develop Value-Based Partnerships
Executive Experience attendees at HFMA’s ANI 2017 provided input on four vital issues that need to be addressed when seeking to establish value-based partnerships.
Rethinking Health Care’s Triple Aim
Achieving health care’s Triple Aim has proved elusive, but it may be yet be achievable through a process of engaging rising-risk patients in their own care through daily self-reporting.
Health Insurance and Hospital System Financing at a Glance
Healthcare leaders should understand the fundamental differences between health insurers and hospital systems in terms of financing structures and key performance metrics.
Creating Value in the Medicaid Expansion: A Strategic Framework for AMCs
Academic medical centers that work with states to find mutually beneficial Medicaid strategies may find themselves well positioned in an era of value.
Using Physician Assistants Can Save Costs
Healthcare executives responding to a recent survey overwhelming agree that transforming costs is a “significant” or “very significant” need, but more than 50 percent have no cost reduction targets for the next five years or have a goal of 1-5 percent—a range that is far below what will be required to transform cost structures.
The Top 5 Drivers of Missing Charges
Staff engaged in revenue integrity and charge audits should carefully monitor five key categories that are most common reasons for missing charges.
ICD-10 Denials and Payment: Understanding the Relationship
Proactive, established processes to prevent denials and better manage appeals minimizes citation risks while promoting optimal, timely payment and compliance.
5 Ways to Build a Successful Work-From-Home Program
For hospitals, a well-executed work-from-home program can help improve staff morale and quality of life, as well as attract and retain high performers in competitive markets, especially those who have a long commute or may be moving out of the area.
Baylor Scott & White Revamps Patient Payment Processes, Saves $1.5M in Agency Fees
A Dallas-based health system increased POS collection by incorporating more up-front discussions on patients’ out-of-pocket costs and offering more payment options.
New Survey Finds Current Cost Transformation Initiatives Lack Required Urgency
Healthcare executives responding to a recent survey overwhelming agree that transforming costs is a “significant” or “very significant” need, but more than 50 percent have no cost reduction targets for the next five years or have a goal of 1-5 percent—a range that is far below what will be required to transform cost structures.