Administration Touts Some Drug Price Improvements
Aug. 20—One hundred days after the Trump administration’s release of a blueprint to cut drug costs and out-of-pocket expenses, administration officials touted some signs of progress.
New Approaches for Improving the Cost of Care
Data provided by internal and external sources can give healthcare providers valuable insight into areas for cost improvement.
Understanding Pricing Trends in a Changing Environment
Pricing data can help providers make more informed strategic decisions and build better relationships with their patients.
Ask the Experts: Analyzing Bad Debt
What are best practices related to aging accounts receivable buckets and determination of reserve rate-based time frames?
Healthcare Cost Containment: August 2018
Subscribers can access the August 2018 issue of Healthcare Cost Containment.
What’s Driving Increased Hospital Cost Concerns?
Cost control eclipsed revenue growth as the top priority among health system CEOs, according to Advisory Board’s Annual Health Care CEO Survey.
4 Ways Real Estate Strategy Curbs Costs and Supports Care
By perfecting the “puzzle” of care settings and reaching more patients more effectively, health systems can make invaluable headway in their critical goals of reducing fixed and operating costs.
Decline in Hospital-Acquired Conditions Saves Almost $3B
AHRQ reports that hospital-acquired conditions fell by 350,000 between 2014 and 2016. With an adverse drug event costing a hospital anywhere from $1,200 to $9,000 and a catheter-associated urinary tract infection costing between $5,000 and almost $30,000, this reduction is a positive indicator for reducing health costs.
Trends in Building and Fixture Costs, 2007-16
An analysis looked at Medicare cost reports to compared trends in capital costs for buildings and fixtures among different types of acute care hospitals.
Ask the Experts: Presumptive Eligibility
Is a free service provided on the basis of presumptive eligibility allowable for charity on Medicare’s cost report worksheet S-10?