Enterprise Risk Management: A Key Success Factor Under Value-Based Care
To be successful in a value-based payment environment, hospitals and health systems must undertake an integrated approach to managing risk across their enterprises.
More Than a ZIP Code: Socioeconomic Data for Improving Patient Outcomes
The shift to value is encouraging healthcare providers to tap into previously underutilized resources to gather useful patient data.
Reducing SNF Readmissions Through Hospital-SNF Collaboration
A hospital and skilled nursing facility (SNF) in Michigan have established an effective and innovative collaboration aimed at reducing avoidable readmissions to the hospital.
Exploring Health-Plan-Provider Partnerships
The increased burden on provider organizations resulting from value-based payment programs may be alleviated by a strategic data-sharing arrangement with a health plan.
A National Conversation About Patient Safety and Medical Errors
Findings of a survey about the public’s experience and understanding of medical errors suggest a public health approach is needed to address patient safety.
Terminating Swap Positions
Health system financial executives may want to consider whether they would terminate legacy swap positions in a higher rate environment.
How to Perform a Pre-Transaction ‘Stress Test’ on a Proposed Healthcare Merger or Partnership
A healthcare organization should not move forward with any proposed merger or partnership without first performing a structured assessment to confirm that the arrangement is viable.
Trendsetter: Reimagining Physician Preference Items: Why Value—Not Cost—Is the Name of the Game
This article discusses how Premier worked with a large, mid-Atlantic, urban medical center to develop a defined, value-focused, data-driven methodology that optimizes the high-value implant-selection process.
Grant Thornton: Facilitating EAM
Bill Slama and Ken Deakyne of Grant Thornton LLP Business Consulting and Technology and Technology Solutions Services discuss the importance of enterprise asset management.
HFMA Executive Roundtable: Healthcare Consumerism and Transparency in the Revenue Cycle
As patients are held financially responsible for larger portions of their healthcare bills, they are seeking greater transparency about care costs, causing healthcare organizations to rethink their revenue cycles—especially regarding pricing and cost estimation.