Quality + Cost Reporting

Are You Ready for Quality-Based Payment?

This report discusses how the quality based performance payment trend has impacted the documentation and coding process.
We Have Not Heard Reform's Swan Song

Despite recent setbacks in efforts to enact healthcare reform legislation, reforms that reduce cost and improve quality of care will be enacted somehow. Providers should prepare.
Top 10 Things Hospitals Need to Know About Health Reform—But Were Afraid to Ask

Healthcare financial executives should be aware of 10 key areas of the reform law that require their immediate attention.
Accountability: It's What's New

Now that we're financially accountable for improving clinical outcomes, it's time to step up and take ownership of this challenge.
From the Chair: Changing the Cost-Quality Equation

The newest reason to redouble our efforts to prevent hospital acquired infections: We're not going to get paid for these cases.
Keys to a High-Performance Health System for the United States

We can greatly improve the performance of the U.S. healthcare system, but first we need to reexamine some of our long-held notions.
Buzzword of the Year: Transparency

Transparency in both quality reporting and pricing for healthcare services may well be the key to the success, or failure, of President Bush's effort to make affordable health care available to more Americans.
Tommy G. Thompson: Advocating Price Transparency

Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson speaks with hfm about price transparency.
Surviving Medicare’s IPPS Changes: What You Need to Know

The most important changes in the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system in nearly 25 years are here. Are you ready?
What Value-Based Purchasing Means to Your Hospital

CMS's approach for determining whether a hospital qualifies for incentive payments under the Value-Based Purchasing program is intricate, but it may not produce a fully reliable comparative measure.
Katherine Arbuckle and Melinda Hancock: A Clinical Transformation Journey

Katherine Arbuckle and Melinda Hancock, both CFOs with the Bon Secours Health System, discuss the system's clinical improvement initiative and leadership model.
HIT Adoption Key to Provider Success Under Healthcare Reform

Healthcare finance leaders should look to a strong HIT system to help find ways to coordinate care, improve outcomes, and manage costs.
Leveraging Data and Measurement Across a Hospital System

Performance dashboards enable multihospital systems to translate priorities for quality and safety improvement, fiscal performance, and customer satisfaction into measurable targets.
5 Ways to Engage Physicians in Financial Decision Making

A business specialist offers five strategies for effectively working with physicians to improve value.
Key Technological Concepts Explained

A number of applications on the market can support healthcare operations, from financial to clinical.
The Drive for Value in Health Care

Health system changes require that providers undertand and achieve value--higher quality at lower cost.
What Finance Needs to Know About Using Technology to Improve Value

New technologies can help hospitals more easily and cost-effectively evaluate performance around quality, thereby contributing to improved value. Finance leaders should guide these efforts.
Is There a Cost Associated with Higher Quality?

Value-based purchasing (VBP) is likely to become the new reality for U.S. hospitals. A key question is whether hospitals manage the costs associated with the improved quality that VBP will require.
HFMA's Value Project Web Tool

Access strategic and tactics to build the skills that support value-driving capabilities.
HFMA Comments on the CMS Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program

HFMA commented on its specific concerns with CMS's proposed rule on the hospital inpatient value-based purchasing program. The proposed rule is associated with the Affordable Care Act.
ACO Comparison Table: Proposed vs. Final Rule

This table from CMS outlines the differences between the Proposed Rule and the Final Rule for Accountable Care Organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
Value in Health Care: Current State and Future Directions

The first report from HFMA's Value Project defines value in health care, provides an overview of the current state of value in the healthcare industry, and maps out future directions for value-oriented providers.
Using Business Intelligence to Understand Financial Impact of Clinical Quality

This session will help you understand the important relationship between cost and quality as your organization may be gearing up to understand the financial impact of quality events and the promise of incentive payments for meaningful use.
Medicare Cost Reporting: Implications and Strategies

Attend this webinar to better understand the implications of the cost reporting process, best practices related to the accumulation of information, advanced reimbursement issues, and how using the cost report as a management tool can contribute to your facility’s overall reimbursement environment.
Hawaii Launches First-Ever Statewide VBP Program with Private Payer

Evidence that value based purchasing (VBP) is fast taking hold beyond Medicare demonstration projects.

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Quality + Cost Reporting

Are You Ready for Quality-Based Payment?

We Have Not Heard Reform's Swan Song

Top 10 Things Hospitals Need to Know About Health Reform—But Were Afraid to Ask

Accountability: It's What's New

From the Chair: Changing the Cost-Quality Equation

Keys to a High-Performance Health System for the United States

Buzzword of the Year: Transparency

Tommy G. Thompson: Advocating Price Transparency

Surviving Medicare’s IPPS Changes: What You Need to Know

What Value-Based Purchasing Means to Your Hospital

Katherine Arbuckle and Melinda Hancock: A Clinical Transformation Journey

HIT Adoption Key to Provider Success Under Healthcare Reform

Leveraging Data and Measurement Across a Hospital System

5 Ways to Engage Physicians in Financial Decision Making

Key Technological Concepts Explained

The Drive for Value in Health Care

What Finance Needs to Know About Using Technology to Improve Value

Is There a Cost Associated with Higher Quality?

HFMA's Value Project Web Tool

HFMA Comments on the CMS Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program

ACO Comparison Table: Proposed vs. Final Rule

Value in Health Care: Current State and Future Directions

Using Business Intelligence to Understand Financial Impact of Clinical Quality

Medicare Cost Reporting: Implications and Strategies

Hawaii Launches First-Ever Statewide VBP Program with Private Payer

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