6 Early ACO Mistakes to Avoid
Written by Heather Punke, December 6th, Becker’s Hospital Review Creating an accountable care organization often takes months, if not years, of strategic planning before a plan is fully developed....
View ArticleHow to Create Sustainable Hospital Financial Improvement: 3 Steps
Written by Bob Herman | December 07, 2012 , Becker’s Hospital Review Tips on how to improve financial performance in any organization are a dime a dozen. Usually, organizations will readjust their...
View ArticleHealthcare Exec Compensation Models Play Catch-up
Karen Minich-Pourshadi, for HealthLeaders Media, December 11, 2012 This article appears in the November 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
View ArticlePatients need to be involved in quality metrics
Kyle Bradford Jones, MD | Physician | January 26, 2013, KevinMD.com I recently heard from an aging and respected physician the old adage that “what is good for the doctor is good for the patient.” The...
View Article20 Statistics on Hospital Readmissions
Written by Sabrina Rodak | January 23, 2013, Becker’s Hospital Review Readmissions are a significant concern for hospitals, as they will receive cuts to their Medicare payments for higher-than-expected...
View Article3 Non-Provider Forces Hospitals Can Expect More From in 2013
Written by Molly Gamble | January 28, 2013, Becker’s Hospital Review In the past few years, there has been a heightened focus on collaborative ties between hospitals and other providers. Hospitals have...
View Article18 Recent Medicare, Medicaid Issues
Written by Bob Herman | February 08, 2013, Becker’s Hospital Review Here are 18 issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent. 1. CMS issued its...
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5 Things the Most Extraordinary Hospital CEOs Do
Written by Molly Gamble | February 04, 2013, Becker’s Hospital Review There isn’t a trusted scorecard to accurately assess a healthcare CEO’s performance. But there are a handful of skills the most...
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Incentivizing Physicians for Quality Through Data, Compensation and Cultural...
Written by Imran Andrabi, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Physician Executive Officer, Mercy | February 04, 2013 Physicians play a critical role in quality improvement at hospitals and health...
View Article5 Ways Hospitals Can Partner With Free Clinics
Written by J. Stephen Lindsey, FACHE, and John “Trey” Rawles III | February 05, 2013, Becker’s Hospital Review Are you prepared for the impending changes in reimbursement? Under the Patient Protection...
View ArticleCMS to Fine Hospitals $227M for High Readmissions
Written by Sabrina Rodak | August 05, 2013 , Becker’s Hospital Review CMS will fine hospitals a total of $227 million for greater-than-expected readmission rates for the second year of the Hospital...
View ArticleStop Paying for Paltry Performance: 5 Tips For Hospital Leaders
Written by Molly Gamble | August 01, 2013, Becker’s Hospital Review American healthcare is rapidly moving from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance, a concept often tied to accountable care...
View ArticleHealthcare’s employment boom may soon flatline
By Danielle Kurtzleben, U.S. News & World Report Health Care for years looked like the unsinkable industry. Over the last 20 years, health care employment has stayed on a steady, strong upward...
View ArticleHealthcare Reform to Alter Employers’ Health Benefits Plans, Survey Says
Written by Heather Punke | August 22, 2013 , Becker’s Hospital Review While 82 percent of employers view subsidized healthcare benefits as an important part of their employee value proposition for...
View ArticleStudy: Single-Payer Health System Feasible, Could Save $1.8 Trillion in 10 Years
Written by Bob Herman | July 31, 2013 , Becker’s Hospital Review A new study shows that expanding Medicare to every American citizen would not only achieve universal coverage and trillions in...
View ArticlePay for Performance in Healthcare Organizations: Time for a Fresh Look at...
Written by Russ Wilson, Consultant, and Susan Sulisz, Director, Towers Watson | August 26, 2013 The only constant is change — and nowhere is this more true than in today’s healthcare industry. The...
View ArticleNew Laws and Rising Costs Create a Surge of Supersizing Hospitals
By JULIE CRESWELL and REED ABELSON, Published: August 12, 2013, New York Times Hospitals across the nation are being swept up in the biggest wave of mergers since the 1990s, a development that is...
View ArticleWhy adult hospitals should be more like children’s hospitals
August 22, 2013 | By Ilene MacDonald, Fierce Healthcare Hospitals could improve patients’ quality of life, satisfaction and even health outcomes if they simply model adult hospitals after the ones...
View Article5 Recent ACO Findings
Written by Molly Gamble | August 26, 2013, Becker’s Hospital Review The relative youth of accountable care organizations make the model ripe for further study and analysis. Are there more Medicare or...
View ArticleStudy: Hospitals With Huge Market Power Command High Prices
Written by Bob Herman, Becker’s Hospital Review The highest-priced hospitals within a market often have charges that are 60 percent higher than the lowest-priced market competitor, and the high-priced...
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