Caregiver Support May Help Reduce Costs
Family caregivers’ fatigue was associated with $1,937 higher costs while caregiver sadness was associated with $1,323 higher costs during a six-month period. Patients with severely fatigued caregivers also were more likely to visit the ED.
How Is Your Hospital Managing Costs Across Its Physician Enterprise?
Several factors have challenged achieving a more comprehensive view of costs at the physician enterprise level, including governance, data sharing, and financial performance expectations.
Time Is Money: Aurora Health’s 5-Month Cost Accounting Journey
Recognizing the intense multidisciplinary effort required to implement cost accounting, Aurora Health followed a step-by-step approach that emphasized structure, validation, training, maintenance, and optimization.
12-Year Trend Shows Steady Rise in Acute Care Hospital Administrative and General Costs
An analysis of Medicare cost reports shows that U.S. Hospitals saw a gradual increase in their administrative and general costs from 2004 through 2016.
340B Hospitals and Drugmakers Battle Over Transparency
March 16—Supporters and critics of the 340B discount drug program agree that more transparency is needed, but they remain sharply divided over who needs to be transparent and what such reporting should include.
Optimizing a Physician Practice Acquisition
Thoughtful strategies surrounding physician practice acquisition can help set the stage for success.
ALOS Analysis Reveals Significant Regional Variances
An analysis of average length of stay looking at U.S. hospitals identified noteworthy variation among states within each of four regions.
Healthcare Consumerism Requires Comparable Quality and Cost Data
Provider organizations and health plans can advance the use of cost and performance data to support consumerism, as collaboratives in Massachusetts and Minnesota are showing.
Ask the Experts: Denial Write-Offs
What is the best practice target for denial write-offs as a percent of net revenue?
Flu Vaccine Helps Avoid More than 70,000 Hospitalizations
CDC estimates that if vaccination rates increased by just 5 percentage points across the entire population, another 6,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations could have been avoided.