4 Strategies to Unlock Healthcare Performance Management Constraints
Hospital and health system finance leaders should play a central role in ensuring their organizations are applying high-quality enterprise performance management approaches that improve their organizations’ strategic agility in addressing enterprise risk.
The Evolution of Risk
These are the top risk categories identified by healthcare providers.
ERM: Evolving From Risk Assessment to Strategic Risk Management
Hospitals and health systems must learn how to manage risk effectively to successfully face new challenges in health care.
Federal and Other Initiatives That Are Transforming Provider Risk
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.
The Benefits of Direct-to-Employer ACO Arrangements
Clifford Fullerton, president of Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance, describes a direct-to-employer accountable care organization arrangement that is improving patient access and care quality.
Undoing Siloes to Improve the Patient Experience
A health system has improved the patient experience with a variety of new processes and protocols, including the introduction of a new patient access center and tutoring by physician coaches.
Patient Friendly e-Bulletin: March 2018
Read the March 2018 issue of HFMA's Patient Friendly Billing e-Bulletin.
5 Steps for Consumer-Friendly Payment Options that Raise Satisfaction and Revenue
Today’s hospitals rely more on innovative consumer-friendly revenue capture solutions because of increasing patient responsibility and the risk of non-payment. Providers benefit significantly from implementing technological and non-technological solutions that integrate with operational workflows to mitigate leakage and increase cash flow.
Hospitals, Health Plans Should Treat Information as a Prime Asset
Healthcare leaders should optimize information via a systematic framework of policies and procedures that are continually reinforced and updated so they become part of the culture.
More Health Systems Focusing on Patient Experience
March 14—After years of work, a designer of MRI machines at General Electric was excited to see his cutting edge creation implemented at a hospital.