New Accountable Care Collaborative Shares Provider Stories
The Accountable Care Learning Collaborative is collecting case studies that illustrate how organizations are adopting accountable care. For example, one case study shares how the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center tackled governance and physician engagement.
Ensuring an Effective Approach to Budgeting
Having strict budget variance review processes facilitates meaningful conversations throughout the year and reduces the likelihood that spending will rise above budget targets.
CHECK Targets Chronic Care Costs For Children
A care coordination program targeted toward children with chronic conditions who are also on Medicaid aims to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient engagement and outcomes.
Connecting Executive Pay to Performance
Given the availability of clinical data, population health data, and financial data, it is now possible to determine if executive compensation plans are driving or blocking organizational performance.
Schuylkill Health Faces the Future by Changing its Course
Healthcare system’s new strategic course included four major concurrent paths: performance improvement efforts, campus integration, search for a strategic partner, and two different debt financings.
Leveraging the Lab to Achieve Strategic Objectives
Organizations like Henry Ford Health System are using technology and collaborative partnerships to showcase their labs’ value.
Price Transparency: Where Does the Hospital Industry Stand Today?
Two surveys reveal how hospital pricing transparency policies and trends have changed over a two-year period.
Price Transparency for Health Plans
Because health plans will in most instances have the most accurate data on prices for their members, HFMA’s Price Transparency Task Force recommends that health plans serve as the principal source of price information for their members. Many health plans have already developed or are in the process of developing web-based or telephonic transparency tools for their members. There are also a growing number of independent vendors that use data from health plans and/or employers in web-based tools and telephonic products to inform employees about price.
Patient Friendly Billing Resources
Patient Friendly Billing Resources Here is an extensive list of patient friendly billing reports, analysis, tools, case studies, and related information.
Early, Transparent Financial Communications
A PATIENT FRIENDLY BILLING® Project Recommended Practice. This statement specifically addresses patients' rights to understand and prepare for their financial obligation at the earliest point possible in the care experience.