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Articles from 2007
Big Business for Not-So-Big Hospitals, Pondering the Outsourcing Option
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, August 2007. Copyright 2007 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
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Consumer Directed Healthcare, Beyond Pricing Transparency: The Next Wave
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, July 2007. Copyright 2007 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
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Articles from 2006
Strategic Financial Planning: The Compelling Case for Perpetual Strategic Planning
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, Fall 2006. Copyright 2006 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
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Paradigm Lost: The Strategic Impact of Revised DRG Payments
By Preston Gee, for HealthLeaders News, July 13, 2006
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Physician Relations: Synch With'em or Sink Without'em
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, May 2006. Copyright 2006 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
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Eyes on the Supplies: Results of a Massive Performance Improvement Initiative
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, April 2006. Copyright 2006 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
How much money can you save with a performance improvement initiative that focuses largely on supplies? More then you might think, if you follow the example of the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics.
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The "Write" Choice: A Primer on Outsourcing Transcription Services
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, February 2006. Copyright 2006 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Deciding whether to outsource transcription services and then, if you do, picking the right vendor are not decisions to be taken lightly. The consequences of a too - hasty decision can affect the entire revenue cycle.
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Service Lines: They're Back - And Ripe for Success
Reprinted, by permission, from Executive Insights, February 2006. Copyright 2006 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Service lines are back - and with more clout this time. The concept that first surfaced in healthcare in the mid-1980s is once again under serious consideration by many leading hospitals in the country. In this second iteration, several things are different.
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Articles from 2005
A Quality Opportunity: Engaging Physicians in Outcomes Improvement -
Reprinted, by permission, from SHSMD's Spectrum, November-December 2005 issue.
With scrutiny of the quality of patient care increasing, the time is ripe to get physicians involved in improving clinical outcomes. Here are some tips on getting started.
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Dealing with Enterprising Doctors; Proactive Approach Preferred -
Reprinted, by permission, from Executives Insights, November, 2005. Copyright 2005 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
One of the biggest challenges that healthcare executives face in the current environment is dealing with entrepreneurial physicians. Even in the most favorable circumstances there are complexities and nuances that can undermine the soundest strategy and most elegant execution. Nevertheless, there are a few basic principles that differentiate the successful from the doleful organizations.
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the perils of transparent pricing -
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, November, 2005. Copyright 2005 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Healthcare executives need to recognize that the movement to transparent pricing is irreversible and imminent. A critical step in preparing for transparent pricing is to determine how the organization's prices stack up against the competition.
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Unlocking hospital Gridlock
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, November, 2005. Copyright 2005 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
What happens when patients need to be admitted, but all the hospital's beds are full? Gridlock.
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time for a price check? -
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, October, 2005, pages 54-60 (cover story). Copyright 2005 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Market trends are leading some acute care hospitals to examine their managed care payments and adopt a protective strategy: price shifting.
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Managing the Margin
This series of articles written over the past couple of years and published in HFMA’s Managing the Margin provide strategies for generating new revenue and controlling costs. The most recent article in the series:
a best practice approach -
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, July, 2005, pages 78-83. Copyright 2005 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
If your organization is struggling to achieve its budget targets, your budget process itself may be the culprit. It may also hold the solution.
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Articles from 2004
Making the Tough Choices for Cost Control -
Reprinted, by permission, from Healthcare Financial Management, July, 2004, (cover story). Copyright 2004 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
To prioritize cost savings, providers can benefit from following a fundamental approach that involves using easily attainable small scale initiatives (less than $50,000) to support larger-scale projects (typically over $250,000) that can realize improvements in six months. Increases in capital that result from these efforts can then be used to focus on equally important opportunities where the organization has less control, or payoff may take longer.
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Articles from 2003
Managing the Margin
This series of articles published in HFMA’s Managing the Margin provide strategies for generating new revenue and controlling costs. Articles in this series include:
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Moody’s Special Report, August 2003
In this report, Moody’s profiled 8 hospitals that had recently upgraded their bond ratings, three of which were Phase 2 Consulting clients. The report outlines some of the common factors that contributed to the enhanced performance of each of the hospitals and gives insights into key problems the organizations faced prior to their downfall.
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