Daniel Seargeant

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Daniel Seargeant

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Activity-Based Costing: When to Walk and When to Run

A modified approach to activity-based costing can balance an organization’s desire for operational excellence with its need for repeatable, low-maintenance solutions.

Daniel Seargeant March 5, 2020

Activity-Based Costing: When to Walk and When to Run

A modified approach to activity-based costing can balance an organization’s desire for operational excellence with its need for repeatable, low-maintenance solutions.

Daniel Seargeant May 30, 2019

How to Really Know Your Payment Rates

A deep understanding of active contracts, combined with proactive and purposeful performance monitoring and open communication with health plans must be in place to ensure that hospitals are appropriately paid and the incentives available to them are aligned.

Daniel Seargeant August 13, 2018

How Is Your Hospital Managing Costs Across Its Physician Enterprise?

Several factors have challenged achieving a more comprehensive view of costs at the physician enterprise level, including governance, data sharing, and financial performance expectations.

Daniel Seargeant April 10, 2018

4 Strategies to Unlock Healthcare Performance Management Constraints

Hospital and health system finance leaders should play a central role in ensuring their organizations are applying high-quality enterprise performance management approaches that improve their organizations’ strategic agility in addressing enterprise risk. 

Daniel Seargeant March 21, 2018

Healthcare Executives Dissatisfied with Cost Transformation Progress

A Kaufman Hall survey found that 75 percent of healthcare executive respondents rate their cost transformation success as average to below average.

Daniel Seargeant December 4, 2017