Health System Integration: Prescription for Success
Health systems that are pursuing a merger or acquisition require a structured planning process to achieve full integration across the merged organizations’ clinical, administrative, and operational areas.
HFMA Executive Roundtable: Interoperability: Driving or Impeding Value-Based Care?
Poor data interoperability is limiting healthcare organizations’ progress with value-based models. In this roundtable, several healthcare financial and IT leaders discuss the challenges of poor interoperability and how organizations can overcome them.
Amazon in Health Care? Yawn . . .
The recently announced Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan Chase affiliation has been widely discussed an important development in health care, but it would not likely have enough control and leverage to bring about meaningful change.
Provider-Sponsored Health Plans: Cautions and Opportunities
Hospitals and health systems that are contemplating establishing a provider-sponsored health plan face considerable challenges today in such an undertaking, but it can be an effective strategy for some.
Setting a Course for Growth Through Optimal Service-Line Performance
For a health system, developing the analytics required to manage service-line performance across the care continuum involves an evolutionary process from rudimentary and intermediate to advanced and, ultimately, innovator stages.
Building a Resilient Managed Medicaid Program in the Face of Uncertainty
By collaborating with state agencies, a provider-sponsored health plan has thrived and expanded in an economically disadvantaged area.
Building an ERM Framework for Value-Focused Health Care
Healthcare providers are increasingly taking on payment risk as a result of value-based payment arrangements being implemented by the federal government and the private sector.
Pursuing Data-Driven Workforce Management
This article discusses how Premier Inc. partners with health systems to reimagine workforce management, offering integrated data and advisory services to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and drive performance.
CEOs Meet to Discuss Critical Healthcare Trends
This article highlights a white paper that shares top insights from a Fall 2017 gathering of senior healthcare leaders. Within the meeting, executives offered their perspectives on healthcare trends and gave recommendations for future work.
Value-Based Payment Readiness
This article discusses key takeaways from a September 2017 HFMA survey of senior financial executives about value-based payment readiness and how it has changed in recent years.