Cost Effectiveness of Health Report, September 2023

This issue of HFMA’s Cost Effectiveness of Health Report, sponsored by Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, leads off with an article discussing the potential for new payer-provider partnerships to address quality and cost shortcomings of the nation’s healthcare system.

Payer-provider partnerships

Thriving post-reset: Payer-provider partnerships after the pandemic
Sponsored by Kaufman Hall
By John Poziemski and Joyjit Saha Choudhury
New questions about healthcare value are leading to a shift in the ways in which payers and providers view and evaluate their relationships with each other, which can ultimately contribute to better managed costs of care and improved quality of care.

Price transparency

Can MRF data be used for comparative benchmarking?
By Fred Stodolak and Govind Goyal
Machine readable files (MRFs) are intended to be a tool to help patients and others compare pricing for healthcare services among providers so they can make informed decisions about those services. A recent study, however, identified disparities among MRFs that limit their usefulness for this purpose.

Patient access

The perils and possibilities of healthcare apps 
Healthcare organizations that rise to the challenge of engaging with consumers through effective apps can prosper.

Voices in Healthcare Finance podcast

The future of healthcare transparency, with Nick Hut and Andrew Donahue 
Voices in Healthcare Finance podcast
HFMA Senior Editor Nick Hut and HFMA Policy Director Andrew Donahue discuss legislative action that could affect transparency efforts in healthcare.

Workforce issues

3 lessons learned from COVID-19 to address the nursing crisis
By Jeff Richards
The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare providers to take a hard look at many problems that have contributed to the nation’s nursing crisis, including regulatory issues and nurse burnout. That experience has helped define a path forward for addressing these problems.