hfm Magazine: September 2018
The September 2018 edition of hfm explores people and culture in healthcare finance, focusing on performance improvement, academic-community relationships, and care delivery.
4 Steps for Success in a Changing Payment Landscape
The experiences of oncology practices participating in CMMI’s Oncology Care Model offer insight on how physician practices can best adapt their revenue cycle for value-based payment models.
Should Physician-Led Models Get Value-Based Payment Privileges?
Joe Damore and Shawn Griffin describe the potential issues of granting special privileges to physician-led alternative payment models.
Home Is Where the Hospital Is
The hospital-at-home model provides a potential means of reducing total costs of care and improving outcomes, but it would present traditional acute care hospitals with a strategic challenge.
Health Plans, Providers Collaborate on Payment Transformation in Hawaii
More than 500 primary care providers have moved to per-member, per-month payments for patients covered by Hawaii’s largest health plan. The initiative may provide a roadmap for smaller physician practices to participate and flourish in the transition to value.
Video: The Evolution of Payment Models
François de Brantes, former vice president and director for the Altarum Payment Institute, discusses payment models.
The Study of Factors Influencing the Total Cost of Health Care
A study conducted by HFMA, Leavitt Partners, and McManis Consulting investigated factors driving the total cost of health care in the United States.
Creating APMs for Specialty Care: A Provider-Led Initiative for Delivering Value
The experiences of a large urology group practice can provide finance leaders with insight into key considerations involved with developing an advanced alternative payment model (APM) for a healthcare specialty area.
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.
A Carrot or a Stick?
Incentives may not be enough to trigger a shift to voluntary alternative payment models.