Plateau Busting: Transforming a CDI Program to Optimize Quality and Revenue
United Health Services, a not-for-profit health system serving New York, realized substantial benefits by implementing a clinical documentation improvement program.
Priority Advantage: Helping Organizations Optimize Their Medicare Advantage Plans
Gene Cronin, vice president for Priority Advantage, discusses the value and benefits of working with a top-notch Medicare Advantage service vendor.
Closing the Price Gap for Commodity Services
Healthcare leaders looking to be competitive in certain services must carefully consider strategies to lower prices.
Closing Health Care’s Value Gap
To ensure current and future success, healthcare providers must take deliberate action to bridge the gap between volume-based payment and value-based payment.
How Consolidation Is Changing Healthcare Markets
Healthcare organizations contemplating opportunities for consolidation can benefit from performing a detailed analysis that considers potential impacts of a variety of possible scenarios.
Medicare Advantage 2.0: Next Generation Growth Strategies
Healthcare organizations looking to expand their Medicare Advantage programs should look to market data for guidance.
Gamification: A New Tool for Improving the Performance of Healthcare Organizations
Through gamification, healthcare organizations can engage staff in performance improvement efforts by offering them nonmonetary incentives to pursue these efforts in the spirit of a game.
A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Clinical Care and Reducing Costs
The experiences of two health systems provide insight into how healthcare providers can use advanced data analytics to sustainably improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.
Skyrocketing Prescription Drug Crisis: Action Needed
Legislative action by Congress is needed to address the problem facing the U.S. healthcare system from cost pressures caused by rising prescription drugs prices.
The Upside of Change
Reframing organizational change can be the key to making change management easier for all concerned.