Leveraging Scale for Value in a Decentralized System
A major initiative to bring University of California Health’s five campuses together as a system began with a successful revenue cycle project.
Next-Generation Investments for Today’s Healthcare CFO
Two trends that anticipate the future of U.S. health care involve the emergence of hospital command centers and super-partnerships between providers and technology vendors.
Measuring and Managing Patient Profitability
Activity-based costing helps providers achieve profitability by enabling them to trace the consumption of resource expense through activities performed to deliver healthcare services to patients.
Maximizing Out-of-Network Payment for Patients with ACA Exchange Products
Hospitals should take steps to ensure the receive the full payment to which they are entitled for out-of-network patients enrolled in health plans purchased on the Affordable Care Act insurance exchange.
Rethinking the Targets
Healthcare leaders should focus value-based payment efforts on the areas with the greatest potential ROI.
Finance Manager Urges Organ Donations After Two Family Members Saved
Karen Denko not only advocates for others to donate life when they die but she became a living organ donor to her niece when her kidneys failed.
Truly Thriving Requires a Little TLC
When assessing the costs of health care, it is important to remember that “tender loving care” is inextricably linked with ‘total costs of care.”
Preventing Physician Burnout With Collaboration and Respect
Physician-authors Paul DeChant and Diane W. Shannon write that although the increasing prevalence of burnout is manifested in individual physicians, the root cause is systemic stress in the workplace.
Preventing Physician Burnout With Collaboration and Respect
Physician-authors Paul DeChant and Diane W. Shannon write that although the increasing prevalence of burnout is manifested in individual physicians, the root cause is systemic stress in the workplace.
The New, No-Norm World of Health Care
Reforms and trends in health care are causing healthcare organizations to look at their clinical and financial operations in a different light.