Cover Story 
Delivering Value to Multiple Stakeholders: 2013 and Beyond
Four strategies can help payers and providers give their customers more value for the dollar as health reforms emerge over the next few years.
By Michael Nugent
Preview of January hfm
Financing Your Strategic Plan: Finding the Right Tool for the Right Job
Features
Navigating Care Management
Care navigation can enhance a patient's care journey, but hospitals often face obstacles in mapping out such an initiative.
By Ben Albert
Performance Improvement in the Perioperative System
Healthcare finance leaders have an important role to play in guiding clinical and financial improvements in hospitals.
By Kathleen Brooks, Dan Krupka
Resuscitate ED Metrics with Split-Flow Design
The split-flow model has emerged as one of the most efficient and cost-effective strategies for improving emergency department patient flow.
By Mark Harris, Jeff Wood
Mining Internal Data to Reduce Clinical Costs
A five-step process for identifying ways to decrease clinical costs led to big gains related to sepsis prevention and treatment.
By Scott Teffeteller, Thomas Kish
Clinical Care Paths: A Role for Finance in Clinical Decision Making
Hospital finance leaders can play an important role in the development of clinical care paths designed to guide clinicians in the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective care.
By Michael Abrams, Simone Cumminigs, Dana Hage
The Challenge of Funding Hospital Employee Retirement Benefits
Many promising ideas exist for optimizing employee retirement and health programs while containing costs.
By Christina Roman
Focus Areas
Physician Relations
Working Together Toward a Shared Vision for Care
The ability of physicians and finance leaders to work together requires a commitment to overcome differences in training, experience, and perspective.
By Marc Halley
Compliance
Tips for Preparing for a 340B Integrity Audit
Learn key action steps hospitals and health systems can take to prepare for a 340B Drug Pricing Program integrity audit.
By William Wood, James Jorgenson, William Kelly
Columns
From the Chair
Mapping Our Way to Value
In its newest Value Project report, HFMA sets forth a road map to value that all hospitals, including multihospital systems, should consider.
By Ralph Lawson, FHFMA, CPA
From the President
Join the Value Journey
There is no one-size-fits-all approach for healthcare providers to move toward increasing the value of the care they deliver to their communities.
By Joseph Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
From the Editor
Then and Now
Process improvement never stopped being important in health care, but in an environment that demands improved value, it is once again in the spotlight.
By Robert Fromberg, Editor-in-Chief
Eye on Washington
Washington's Post-Election Crunch
Providers should prepare for anticipated Medicare and Medicaid cuts by developing the core capabilities required to improve quality and reduce cost.
By Chad Mulvaney
Business Intelligence
Governing in an Era of Value-Based Payment
When contemplating the role of governance in preparing for value-based payment, healthcare executives should consider three points.
By Keith Moore, Katie Eyestone, Dean Coddington
Healthcare Value
Value Proposition Suffers When Quality Departments Lack Critical Staff
Under-resourced quality departments are the leading cause of poor hospital performance.
By John Byrnes
Strategy Challenge
How Do We Accelerate the Growth of Primary Care
Accelerating the growth of primary care requires a careful look at market position, strategy, and the physician culture of a hospital or health system.
By Alan Zuckerman
5 Ways To...
5 Ways to Build a Top-Performing Supply Chain
There are five ways hospitals can enhance supply chain performance.
By Matthew Rowan
Data Trends
Urban Versus Rural Performance by State Under Value-Based Purchasing
A state-by-state analysis of projected total performance scores for urban and rural hospitals under the Value-Based Purchasing Program discloses remarkable disparities between these hospital settings.
Etcetera
Member Spotlight: Martial Arts Maven
Executive Interview
Peg Burnette: Safety-Net Hospital Prepares for Healthcare Reform
Publication Date: Monday, December 03, 2012