Community Paramedicine Saves Organization $6M in 1 Year
By training paramedics to treat patients at home under a physician’s supervision, Commonwealth Care Alliance is reducing unnecessary emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
Determining the Long-Term Value of Labor Costs
Various methods can help healthcare leaders express the savings realized from a reduction in staff time and effort required to complete a task.
A Data-Driven Approach to Physician Performance Improvement
With a data-driven understanding of how and where they can improve, physicians will be eager to close the gap where current outcomes lag behind expected performance.
Implementing Green Strategies That Contain Costs and Reduce Waste
A campaign to educate clinicians on proper waste segregation can improve compliance with regulations and keep regular waste out of more costly waste streams.
Treatment of Addiction: Incentivizing Recovery, Not Relapse
Substance use disorder has too often been treated as an isolated infectious disease. The ARMH-APM, a proposed alternative payment model, aims to restructure provider incentives to promote more appropriate treatment of the disorder as a chronic disease.
Data Sharing Tips for Value-Based Payment Arrangements
Value-based contracts require that provider organizations and health plans share data and information that they may not have shared historically. Details about that data-sharing must be established in contracts.
Jan. 28- Feb. 1: Promising Early Results from Integrating Mental, Physical Health
Jan. 24—Healthcare payers and providers have found good clinical outcomes from pilots that integrate mental health care, but financial analyses remain unfinished.
Temporary Nurses: A Viable Solution to Nurse Shortages
Nurse shortages have hospitals and health systems considering temporary nurses.
Textile Budget Considerations: A Laundry List
An efficient textiles program can help a health system maximize dollars allocated to linens and uniforms and result in better patient outcomes and satisfaction.
SKU Optimization Initiatives Can Create Cost Savings in an Era of Value-Based Care
By assigning stock-keeping unit (SKU) information to equipment and supplies, hospitals can realize cost savings.