Getting a Handle on Staff Turnover
A balanced approach to managing revenue cycle staff turnover—keeping overall rates low but also recognizing the need for “good” turnover—is an important factor in managing new healthcare payment models.
Diagnosing Physician Practice Financial Pains
The cause of your physician practice’s financial pains might be your revenue cycle processes.
Separation of Compliance and Legal Functions Key to Effective Hospital Compliance Program
New guidance strongly suggests that hospital compliance officer should not be subordinate to legal counsel.
A Perfectly Legal Way to Help Patients Pick Higher-Quality Post-Acute Providers
For fear of legal ramifications, hospital case managers and discharge planners are not sharing quality information about post-acute providers with patients.
The Right Questions to Diagnose Physician Practice Financial Pains
Physician practices can recover lost revenue by asking the right questions about their revenue cycle processes.
M&A Basics: How to Avoid a Broken Deal
Hospital leaders involved in merger and acquisition discussions need to understand some fundamentals about these transactions to ensure a successful outcome.
An Antitrust Primer
It may be helpful to remember certain basic principles of antitrust law when contemplating mergers and acquisitions.
A KPI Primer: 5 Steps for Creating Meaningful Revenue Cycle Metrics
Healthcare revenue cycle KPIs that have a defined purpose and are actionable can raise staff performance and improve processes.
NY Rural Providers Turn Medical Homes into an ACO
What makes this medical home project different from many others around the country is that it is an all-payer pilot. After lengthy negotiations between providers and payers, the health plans agreed to pay the medical homes $7 per member per month to care for some 100,000 patients during the first year.
Accounting for Non-Performance-Related Variation in Shared Savings Contracts
Variation between targeted and actual PMPM costs can be due to numerous factors, including many that have nothing to do with the quality or cost of care provided to ACO members.