The Overlooked Addiction
The need to address the opioid crisis is clear, thanks to the relentless media spotlight. But at the same time, the societal burden of alcohol abuse is growing yet has garnered little attention, writes Joseph J. Fifer, president and CEO of HFMA.
Ask the Experts: Service Line Analysis
What are the main steps in developing a productivity benchmark model for a service line?
Developing a Specialty Medical Home Contract
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center gastroenterologists have teamed with UPMC Health Plan to develop a specialty medical home contract for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Care Navigators: A Mini Case Study
Care navigators facilitate hospital discharge and patient follow-ups with the goal of improved outcomes.
Rising At-Risk Populations
Almost 84 million people out of a total population of 400 million, will be covered by Medicaid or Medicare by 2050.
Flu Vaccine Helps Avoid More than 70,000 Hospitalizations
CDC estimates that if vaccination rates increased by just 5 percentage points across the entire population, another 6,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations could have been avoided.
Care Navigators Offer Cost-Effective Solution for Improving Value-Based Care
Targeted interventions by care navigators can make a big difference in population health and patient satisfaction without a big cost.
Working Smarter: Using Control Charts to Tackle the High Cost of Clinical Variation
Consistent, accurate, and timely clinical reporting has the power to prompt care teams to adhere to clinical protocols and be mindful of how they stack up against peers and national benchmarks.
Helping Emergency Department Clinicians Understand the Costs of Care
Finance leaders should collaborate with clinical leaders on clinician cost education so they have a greater awareness of room fees, nursing fees, and radiology fees needed to treat ED patients.
Hospital COPD Bundle Curbs Costly Readmissions
University of Cincinnati Medical Center used improvement science to develop and implement a ‘COPD care bundle’ for COPD patients who are often readmitted due to care-delivery failures.