Joint Ventures: To Pursue or Not to Pursue?
Joint ventures among not-for-profit hospitals, physicians, and for-profit entities are proliferating nationwide. These ventures represent one option among a range of partnering options. When developed prudently, joint ventures can enable not-for-profit hospitals to capture growth, preserve capital, enhance or expand services, share expertise, protect market share and revenue, and align economic incentives and strategic interests with physicians and other constituents.
Creating a Sustainable Physician Strategy
Savvy hospital leaders recognize that organizational strategies must not only adapt—but also anticipate—needed actions to address the key forces with potential to alter the nature of today’s physician relations.
HFMA Educational Report: What's Next? The Evolution in
Hospital-Physician Relationships
This eight-page PDF examines how healthcare systems can deal with a distorted reimbursement system to bring more balanced care to its patients from a group of physicians with a broader range of specialties.
Overcoming Barriers to Electronic Health Record Adoption
This 16-page PDF gives an overview of where hospitals are in the process and what strategies they can undertake to improve adoption.
HFMA's Internet Guide: Pay for Performance Programs
"Pay for Performance" approach allows payers to reward physician groups or hospitals for quality care based on specified performance criteria. Since this area is new, healthcare consortiums and foundations are testing the waters by developing pay for performance programs to test their viability. Listed below are pilot programs that are exploring this initiative.