Lola Butcher
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Lola Butcher
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The Rise of Outpatient Joint Replacement
Although joint replacement surgeries will increasingly be performed as outpatient procedures, inpatient volumes are expected to hold steady.
Using Stakeholder Input to Design Healthcare Facilities
Using a Lean design process, Lee Health created a life-size mock-up of clinical and administrative facilities to optimize patient flow and staff flow before drawing the designs for a new outpatient facility.
Virtual Visits Come of Age
More organizations are launching virtual visits for outpatient care as a means of lowering the cost of delivering care, improving patient outcomes, and boosting physician satisfaction with their jobs.
Partnering with Other Providers to Develop Community Needs Assessments
Four Milwaukee-area health systems are working together to complete federally mandated community needs assessments more efficiently. They partner with 18 local health departments to collect and analyze data that informs their local health improvement strategies.
Cone Health Overhauls Patient Engagement Strategy
New patient statements and a web portal helped Cone Health increase patient cash collection by nearly $13 million during a two-year period.
Yale New Haven Hospital Homeless Patient Screening Tool
Yale New Haven Hospital asks specific housing-related questions to determine whether patients are homeless.
Screening and Coding for Homelessness
Health systems are recognizing that homelessness is a root cause of high healthcare utilization, but most systems do not screen and code for homelessness. Revenue cycle, patient access, and coding staff can play a role to improve homeless patient outcomes and reduce avoidable utilization by screening for and documenting homelessness.
UnityPoint Health Ramps Up Value-Based Pay
UnityPoint Clinic is seeing benefits from its ongoing experiment with a value-based compensation structure for primary care physicians in its multispecialty medical group.
UnityPoint Health Ramps Up Value-Based Pay
UnityPoint Clinic is seeing benefits from its ongoing experiment with a value-based compensation structure for primary care physicians in its multispecialty medical group.
Geisinger Scraps Physician Pay-for-Performance
Geisinger Health System has decided to scrap physician compensation incentives based on performance measures and productivity, and instead pay straight salaries.