Improving Patient Experience May Reduce Readmissions
Providers should ask high-risk patients about their care experiences before discharge to help reduce costly readmissions.
Multimodal Approach Saves MedStar Health $13M in 8 Years
Many hospital leaders focus on price negotiations with manufacturers to reduce pharmacy costs. However, pharmacists at one 10-hospital health system recognize the cost-saving benefits of engaging physicians, standardizing 340B program processes, and employing other strategies.
NewYork-Presbyterian Curbs Costs with a Structured Redesign Approach
By pairing project management professionals with operational leaders on key initiatives, the organization achieved $96 million in cost savings in 2017 while maintaining high-quality care.
Total Joint Replacement Costs Decline
Value-based models such as bundled payment and accountable care organizations have bolstered reductions in total joint replacement costs.
Trending Toward Home Care: Is Our Health System Ready?
The advancement of telemedicine and home-based technology presents both opportunities and challenges with respect to improving health care and making it safer.
Palliative Care in the ED Improves Value
Although implementing palliative care processes in the ED is challenging initially, such care can reduce avoidable costs and unnecessary suffering.
Christiana Care Avoids $100M In Costs by Improving Quality, Cutting Waste
Leaders at Christiana Care have reduced waste by ensuring appropriate use of telemetry and modifying their electronic health record to eliminate ordering of automatically recurring lab tests. They also have improved outcomes by better managing blood products and using a care management tool to target at-risk groups.
Three Factors to Consider in Developing High-Performing Ambulatory Care Networks
Craig Holm and Meredith Inniger explain how and why to address optimal service mix and configuration, innovative delivery models and approaches, and consumer orientation.
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.
Care Navigators: A Mini Case Study
Care navigators facilitate hospital discharge and patient follow-ups with the goal of improved outcomes.