A Strategy to Reduce Costly COPD Readmission Penalties
Teaching patients to manage COPD as a chronic disease—rather than an acute condition—can help reduce costly hospitalizations from flare-ups.
Combining Data Across Care Sites Specialties and Provider Types for More Complete Cost Accounting
Adding professional services data to department-level costs can help hospital leaders understand all relevant costs in an increasingly value-focused environment.
NYU Langone Medical Center Achieves Cost Reductions Through Rehab Fine Tuning
Early mobilization and other strategies cut length of stay, acute rehab utilization, and post-acute costs. The medical center’s ICU project alone yields $1.5 million in savings.
How DCH Health System Tackled Clinical Variation to Reduce Costs
By engaging clinicians in efforts to reduce clinical variation, one regional health system has transformed the way finance leaders and physicians work together.
Three Rivers Health Uses Analytics to Accomplish Financial Turnaround
A rural Michigan hospital regained its financial footing after integrating disparate financial systems into one platform and leveraging new analytics tools to lead process improvement efforts.
Augusta University Health System Leverages Decision Support for Costing and Planning
By integrating case cost data with financial data in their decision support system, the health system can now gain a clear picture of the true cost of a single patient case.
Managing the True Costs of Health Care: A Roadmap to Cost Analytics
The increasing costs of care are making it necessary for health systems to look at costing in innovative new ways.
Medxcel Facilities Management: Working Smarter to Make Organizations Safer
Michael Argir, CEO and president of Medxcel Facilities Management, discusses the value and benefits of insourcing facilities-management services.
Self-Pay Patient Financial Liability: A Hospital’s Biggest Post-Election Challenge
As a result of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act and rising self-pay responsibility among consumers, a growing number of consumers could find themselves unable to pay their portions of their healthcare bills, raising financial challenges for providers.
Revenue Cycle Challenges and Recommendations for 2017
A survey of CFOs and revenue cycle leaders identified the most pressing challenges surrounding revenue cycle management.