Operations Management

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.

Lisa A. Eramo January 21, 2019

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. 

Zachary Hartsell, MHA, PA-C January 16, 2019

Advanced Practice Provider Strategy Improves Results

When advanced practice provider growth exceeds plans, it can lead to the costly challenges. 

HFMA January 16, 2019

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. 

Lisa A. Eramo January 16, 2019

New Approaches and Technologies for Improving Cost Performance in Health Care

One health system tackled their readmissions problem by identifying reasons for overstays.

Kathleen Masiulis December 26, 2018

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).

HFMA December 26, 2018

Winning Strategies to Transform Health Care in 2019

Healthcare providers should keep certain best practices in mind when choosing new technology in 2019.

Geoff Martin December 26, 2018

Patient-Level Costing and Profitability: Making It Work

Healthcare providers can use patient-level costing to obtain accurate costing information.

Gary Cokins December 26, 2018

5 Ways to Boost Billing Capabilities for Transitional Care Management

Samantha Sizemore shares tips for success in transitional care management. 

Samantha Sizemore December 20, 2018

Using a Lab Formulary to Improve Value

In an effort to improve the value of the care it delivers, Vanderbilt University Medical Center uses a multidisciplinary committee to determine which lab tests to make available to providers.

Lola Butcher December 18, 2018
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