When Every Minute Counts: Helping Hospitals Address the Opioid Epidemic
Garth Graham, MD, describes the Aetna Foundation’s efforts to fund opioid treatment programs that are tailored to the characteristics of individual communities.
Streamlining Efficiency to Improve Care Quality
UT Physicians achieved improvements in care quality through steps such as creating standardized workflows, streamlining provider documentation, creating dashboards, establishing clinical protocols, achieving PCMH status, and focusing on the patient experience.
Advanced Practice Providers Optimize Efficiency and Improve Financial Performance
Phoenix Children’s Hospital optimizes its advanced practice provider staff to ensure clinicians are working at the top of licenses, improving productivity and cost efficiency.
Advanced Practice Provider Strategy Improves Results
When advanced practice provider growth exceeds plans, it can lead to the costly challenges.
Engaging Physicians in Value-Based Compensation Models
The University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center model layers a 50/50 share of any incentive payments on top of a work RVU-based component to account for revenue that is still generated by the number of patients that providers see.
hfm Magazine: January 2019
Cover Story Psychology and Behavioral Change Theory as Applied to Changing Revenue Cycle Payment Models Healthcare providers should consider a retail-like payment experience for patients. By Rajesh Voddiraju Web Exclusives Using Ambulatory Pricing Strategically to Protect and Grow Market Share An increasing regulatory focus on price transparency also is an impetus for hospitals and health…
New Approaches and Technologies for Improving Cost Performance in Health Care
One health system tackled their readmissions problem by identifying reasons for overstays.
The Use of ABC for Indirect Expenses
There is a potential connection between the use of the idea of activities with respect to patient-level costing to activity-based costing (ABC) and its variant time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC).
Winning Strategies to Transform Health Care in 2019
Healthcare providers should keep certain best practices in mind when choosing new technology in 2019.
Patient-Level Costing and Profitability: Making It Work
Healthcare providers can use patient-level costing to obtain accurate costing information.