Costing + Managerial Accounting

Detailed Cost Accounting a Must in an Era of Reform

A shift in focus from large patient populations to clusters within specific services as healthcare reforms are implemented will fuel the need for detailed cost accounting.
The Impact of Healthcare Reform on Hospital Costing Systems

Learn how reform will change hospital costing systems—and five strategies to help your organization adapt.
A Better Way to Measure Volume - and Benchmark Costs

Equivalent patient units is a new measure of hospital volume that improves finance leaders’ ability to compare activity and costs—and identify savings potential.
Using the Medicare Cost Report to Improve Financial Performance

The Medicare cost report is a tool that can help you perform cost analyses and benchmark your organization against your competitors.
Understanding Variation in Medicare Inpatient Payment

Variations in Medicare payment in different states may put hospitals in some states at a disadvantage by contributing to negative Medicare margins that other hospitals have been able to avoid.
Using Technology to Reveal True Costs

A lack of good costing data is a barrier to achieving value in healthcare organizations. Learn how to select and implement technologies designed to improve costing.
Cutting Costs in Your Own Backyard: Opportunities in Financial Services

CFOs should take advantage of key opportunities to achieve cost savings and performance improvement in financial services.
Developing Capabilities for Real-Time Capacity Management

Learning to use existing capacity more efficiently may be the fastest way for hospitals and health systems to generate revenue.
Measuring Cost When Inpatient Service Acuity Varies

Equivalent acute patient days (EAPDs) are more accurate than adjusted patient days (APDs) for analyzing hospital cost increases over time if inpatient types differ significantly in terms of acuity.
Don't Lose Money with Your Technology Upgrade

After a technology upgrade, a hospital should take specific steps preempt issues that could lead to decreased revenue.
Average Total Outlier Payment per Discharge

Four components of Medicare payment that have shown considerable variation among states are outlier payments, DSH payments, IME-GME payments, and total capital and other pass-through cost payments.
Could Your Financial Health Be Heading for Heartbreak?

Costly drug-eluting stents could dramatically alter projected demands for cardiac surgical services.
Capturing Your Marketing ROI

Hospitals can use their call centers to determine the success of marketing projects aimed at attracting patients to the organization.
Using Attribution to Drive Product Rationalization and Savings

Hospitals with too many products in their systems have more inventory to manage and cross reference. This webinar explains how aligning product attributes can support a product rationalization program and lower costs.
Cost Accounting for the Quality-Driven Reimbursement Era

This seminar discusses the planning, pitfalls, and successes in designing a best-practice cost accounting system that is consistent with today’s complex reimbursement environment.
Detecting Product Equivalency to Drive Lower Physician Preference Items

This webinar explores the benefits of how multiple match methodologies can support comprehensive attribute alignment to help organizations better direct product sourcing and support standardization efforts with clinicians.
The Fixed-Cost Dilemma: What Counts When Counting Cost-Reduction Efforts?

Due to high fixed costs, hospitals can capture few variable costs using incremental cost reduction strategies. Instead, they should consider reducing capacity and optimizing use of remaining capacity.
Cost Reduction: Identifying the Opportunities

A detailed charge code analysis can be a powerful tool for identifying specific areas for cost reduction, which can lead to large and sustainable improvements.
Emerging Accounting Trends: Accounting for Leases

A proposed new model for lease accounting can have a significant financial impact on healthcare organizations.
The Folly of Using RCCs and RVUs for Intermediate Product Costing

A hospital that does not have an activity-based costing system could be putting its financial viability at considerable risk.
Benchmarking Tools for Reducing Costs of Care

In the face of the nation's economic challenges, hospitals are under increasing pressure to reduce costs. Benchmarking is key to achieving that goal.
SmartForm: Using Attribution to Drive Product Rationalization and Savings

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Adventist’s RVU Costing Approach: Benefits Outweigh Challenges

Stopping short of a full-blown cost accounting system, Adventist Health chose a multiple RVU methodology, a hybrid sometimes called activity-based or procedural costing.
Cost Accounting for Quality-Driven Reimbursement

This seminar discusses the planning, pitfalls, and successes in designing a best-practice cost accounting system that is consistent with today’s complex reimbursement environment.
Healthcare Cost Containment

Healthcare Cost Containment Drive down costs while improving quality in a reform environment.

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Costing + Managerial Accounting

Detailed Cost Accounting a Must in an Era of Reform

The Impact of Healthcare Reform on Hospital Costing Systems

A Better Way to Measure Volume - and Benchmark Costs

Using the Medicare Cost Report to Improve Financial Performance

Understanding Variation in Medicare Inpatient Payment

Using Technology to Reveal True Costs

Cutting Costs in Your Own Backyard: Opportunities in Financial Services

Developing Capabilities for Real-Time Capacity Management

Measuring Cost When Inpatient Service Acuity Varies

Don't Lose Money with Your Technology Upgrade

Average Total Outlier Payment per Discharge

Could Your Financial Health Be Heading for Heartbreak?

Capturing Your Marketing ROI

Using Attribution to Drive Product Rationalization and Savings

Cost Accounting for the Quality-Driven Reimbursement Era

Detecting Product Equivalency to Drive Lower Physician Preference Items

The Fixed-Cost Dilemma: What Counts When Counting Cost-Reduction Efforts?

Cost Reduction: Identifying the Opportunities

Emerging Accounting Trends: Accounting for Leases

The Folly of Using RCCs and RVUs for Intermediate Product Costing

Benchmarking Tools for Reducing Costs of Care

SmartForm: Using Attribution to Drive Product Rationalization and Savings

Adventist’s RVU Costing Approach: Benefits Outweigh Challenges

Cost Accounting for Quality-Driven Reimbursement

Healthcare Cost Containment

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