Cost: The Biggest Barrier to Precision Medicine
Joel Diamond explores the cost barriers of genetic testing to precision medicine.
Charging Appropriately for Emergency Department Visits
To determine a fair charge for an emergency department visit, a hospital or health system must separate its costs into three categories.
Setting Competitive Prices with the Consumer in Mind
Finance leaders face a difficult balancing act when setting prices, particularly for new services.
Time for Hospitals to Pursue a ‘Nip and Tuck’ Chargemaster Pricing Strategy?
Hospitals should balance their concern about achieving the margins they require to accomplish their missions with the need to maintain defensible pricing in an environment of increasing healthcare price transparency.
Payment for Behavioral Health Care Is in Catch-Up Mode Under Value-Based Care
Don McDaniel makes a case for an integrated payment model for behavioral and medical services.
PAMA’s Impact on Laboratory Margins
Lâle White describes changes to come in 2018 as a result of CMS’s new clinical laboratory fee schedule.
Closing the Price Gap for Commodity Services
Healthcare leaders looking to be competitive in certain services must carefully consider strategies to lower prices.
Closing Health Care’s Value Gap
To ensure current and future success, healthcare providers must take deliberate action to bridge the gap between volume-based payment and value-based payment.
Taking Control of Pay-For-Performance Contracts
To ensure their organizations perform effectively under risk contracts, healthcare finance leaders should implement a work plan to manage the contracts.
INNOVATION IN PRICE TRANSPARENCY
This article was excerpted from a Leadership digital exclusive. For much more, see hfma.org Leadership PriceTransparency. Showing patients how costs vary by provider and facility may not be enough to improve value across the board. But coupling new benefit and