Addressing Social Determinants of Health: A State Initiative
The Vermont Blueprint for Health is a state-government program that integrates health care with social services with the goal of improving outcomes and controlling costs for patients with chronic conditions.
Incorporating Social Determinants Into Population Health Management
To be able to consistently deliver high-value care for patients with chronic illnesses, healthcare providers must address the social determinants of health that can affect health quality for such patients.
Starting Small With Population Health Management
Starting small can help hospitals and health systems prepare to shift to a population health management model.
Trending Solutions for Rising Drug Prices
Understanding the efficacy of high-cost drug across large patient populations will help providers, payers, and pharmaceutical companies to understand the value of certain drugs and offer patients their life-saving value.
Strategic Financial Planning: Spring 2017
Subscribers can access the Spring 2017 issue of Strategic Financial Planning.
Don’t Triage Transformation
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System and Texas Health Resources are two of the most process-literate health systems in the country today, having dramatically redesigned their leadership and operations to prepare for value and improved performance over several years.
2017 CFO Outlook Performance Management Trends and Priorities
To succeed in today’s changing healthcare environment, finance teams must be able to quickly and accurately distill complex data and translate it into meaningful insights for stakeholders.
Managing the Ethical Aspects of MACRA
Value is the key driver and organizing principle of MACRA and MIPS. Therefore, it is critical to define value from the view of different healthcare stakeholders.
Act Offers Funding for Research Mental Health Care
Recent legislation allows for additional funding of medical detox or substance abuse treatment centers and allows for Medicaid coverage for mental health treatment.
Identifying the Gap Between Hospital and Free-Standing Prices
One-third of healthcare finance leaders have created separate pricing for certain outpatient procedures versus inpatient procedures to mitigate volume migration from hospitals. Their greatest concerns are how low the pricing should go and how will this pricing impact the bottom line.