Integrating Behavioral Health Care and Primary Care
Various obstacles historically have prevented the integration of behavioral health care with primary care—but stakeholders see the tide turning, as they discuss in the latest installment of HFMA’s Healthcare Challenge Roundtable.
Incorporating Value in Behavioral Health
Healthcare stakeholders increasingly are taking steps to improve behavioral health care with an eye toward lowering costs, improving care quality, and improving the health of populations.
Palliative Care Training Program Enhances Care Quality
Clifford Fullerton of Baylor Scott & White Health describes how expanding palliative care training to clinicians outside that specialty is a great step toward achieving the Quadruple Aim.
How Providers Should Prepare for New Bundled Payments
Optimal preparation for new mandatory bundled payment models begins with establishing clear and achievable goals, focusing on inpatient costs and care variation, and reorganizing to manage post-acute spending.
Why Direct Primary Care Works for Me
Primary care physician Jeffrey Gold, MD, describes why direct primary care is rewarding for him and his patients.
UAB’s Patient Navigation Program Saves $19 Million Annually
UAB Health System used a novel care model to reduce hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and intensive care stays for patients with complex cancers.
Children’s Hospital Uses EHR to Save $6 for Every $1 Invested
Nationwide Children’s Hospital piloted a continuous improvement program that reduced total inpatient days, admissions, and emergency department visits. A major success factor was the capture of specific data with every patient encounter, creating systematic opportunities to improve patient outcomes and deliver care more efficiently.
Improving Children’s Health Pays Dividends for Decades
Shahab Dadjou of Children’s Hospital of Orange County describes how the health system is creating a “community of pediatricians” who are collaborating to transform pediatric care in Southern California.
Ask the Experts: Developing a Bundled Payment Team
Who are the main players within finance and other departments who are typically involved in developing bundled payments?
Examining the Economic Impact of a Physician Shortage
The changing regulatory environment in health care adds even more urgency to a looming physician shortage that will continue to impact health care and its delivery over the next decade.