Value-Focused Healthcare Strategy Must Be Multifaceted
Moving to a value-based payment model involves change and requires a strategy focused on both managing costs and enabling growth of the enterprise.
A Short Guide to Avoiding Unwelcome Surprises
Surprise medical bills are a top concern of American consumers today. HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer introduces a guide to help consumers avoid these unexpected out-of-network bills.
Why Your Access Strategy Demands Pricing Transparency
Consumers have come to expect price transparency in health care, which has greatly increased the strategic and operational importance of providers’ charge master descriptions and other pricing frameworks.
Acquiring Physician Practices: Key Strategic Considerations for a Successful Transaction
Health systems seeking to acquire physician practices should first develop a thoughtful physician acquisition strategy that considers factors such as whether the focus will be on primary care physicians or specialists and the extent to which the strategy is offensive or defensive.
Selecting the Right Costing Model
By using cost data at appropriate levels of accuracy and detail to support decision making, hospital finance leaders can minimize the risk of incorrect decisions caused by insufficiently precise data.
Building a Magnet Physician Enterprise: A Critical Health System Priority in the Value Market
Having a magnet physician enterprise that promotes physician satisfaction and engagement is a critical success factor for health systems under value-focused healthcare models.
4 Tactics of Effective Strategic Technology Planning for the Digital Future
With the going transformation of the nation’s healthcare system, digital technology will play an increasing role in how health care is managed and delivered, making it critical for healthcare organizations to have a clear strategy for acquiring and implementing it.
The 2019 ACA Enrollment Period Begins
Rising premiums and reduced choice among insurance options are two challenges facing health insurance purchasers under the Affordable Care Act in 2019; nonetheless, public support for the act continues to be strong enough to block efforts to repeal the act.
Reconciling Charges and Pricing Through Charge Description Master Redesign
Providers should restructure pricing schedules to bring charges into better alignment with the actual cost of services, developing a long-term pricing model that is attractive to both patients and employers.
VitalWare: Creating a Transparency Strategy: Meeting the Mandate to Post Standard Hospital Pricing
A senior leader of VitalWare talks about the need to create a comprehensive pricing strategy for consumers and how to get started.