Hospital CEOs Name Top Financial Challenges
Hospital CEOs top three financial concerns were Medicaid payment, staff and supply costs, and operating costs.
Refunding Bonds to Optimize Savings
By refunding longer bond maturities with shorter, cheaper maturities, low rates can translate into sizable debt service savings.
Facts in Healthcare Finance: Is Spinning the Numbers Unethical?
A hospital CFO’s ability to separate facts from opinions and perspectives sets the stage for organizational integrity.
Henry Ford Health System Builds a Population Health Management Platform
The health system’s plan for value-based care involves centralizing core population health management functions and integrating data from multiple sources.
2 Ways to Achieve the Benefits of Rolling Forecasting
Rolling forecasting can be an effective approach for financial modeling and is flexible enough to meet varied organizational structures. It can help to increase accountability and encourage efficiency and other process improvements.
Primary Care Provider Taps Grants To Fight Childhood Obesity
Through partnerships with local restaurants, community partners, schools and grocery stores, AltaMed Health Services estimates it has reached nearly 200,000 community members with healthier food options that stem diabetes and childhood obesity rates.
What’s in Your Pricing Policy?
A recent survey reports that the majority of hospitals have formal or consistent methods for setting prices, but transparency is often missing.
Improving Healthcare Quality: Four Proven Health Plan Strategies That Providers Should Adopt
Emad Rizk outlines lessons healthcare providers can learn from health plans’ approach to value.
Food for Health: Taking Care of Our Patients’ Most Basic Needs
ProMedica CEO Randy Oostra describes a program that addresses food insecurity in the community by safely repackaging leftover food from a local casino and distributing it to those in need.
New Traditions of Efficiency in Emergency Medicine
Kenneth J. Heinrich discusses how efficient handling of emergency department patients can maximize revenue and increase patient satisfaction.