Creative partnerships bring relief from soaring drug prices
With drug costs emerging as a central concern for healthcare leaders, providers are trying to mitigate the problem through partnerships.
The price of precision medicine: 3 ways for health plans to manage genetic-testing costs
With spending on genetic testing expected to grow significantly, health plans can use three steps to get a handle on costs.
2 states take the lead in implementing innovative healthcare reforms
Washington and Colorado are seeking to funnel noteworthy innovations in healthcare reform, including a public option, through their Medicaid infrastructures.
Care management for Medicare patients drives more than 50% of savings
Care management for Medicare patients accounted for more than half of the shared savings in a study of three accountable care organizations.
Medication dashboard’s basic structure can be replicated, customized
The basic structure of PPMC's medication dashboard can be easily replicated by other hospitals and health systems.
Trend suggests the nation’s largest hospitals should prepare for declining available revenues
The nation's largest short-term acute care hospitals have recently seen a rise in allowances and discounts that will underscore the need for them to contain and reduce costs.
Recommendations for improving utilization review and denial management to reduce LOS
The utilization review and denials management functions play an important role at each transition phase in the acute care process in helping hospitals reduce patients' length of stay in acute care.
HFMA Chair to finance leaders: I dare you to move
HFMA Chair urges attendees “dare to move” to address challenges in healthcare finance.
HealthTrust: A holistic approach to value analysis
Three HealthTrust leaders talk about the cost and quality advantages of creating a value analysis program and offer strategies for getting started.
7 ways to address financial barriers to medication adherence and contain costs
When patients are able to afford their medications, they are also more likely to take those medications as prescribed, thereby avoiding costly hospitalizations and ED visits. Lower costs in this way helps healthcare providers achieve success under value-based payment models that reward high-quality, low-cost care.