Written by Daniel J. Marino, President & CEO, Health Directions | November 14, 2012 Government and private insurers are gradually moving away from encounter-based reimbursement and rapidly developing new payment models that reward coordination of care and population health management. How should healthcare leaders respond? As always, there are options. The first option is to do… Read more »

Written by Scott Becker, JD, CPA, Amber McGraw Walsh, JD, and Anna Timmerman, JD, McGuireWoods | November 06, 2012 , Becker’s Hospital Review This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospitals are facing as they move into 2013. Such issues include physician alignment strategy, the ability of hospitals to stay independent,… Read more »

Written by Bob Herman | November 07, 2012 , Becker’s Hospital Review Dean Gruner, MD, and Chris Van Gorder are not your everyday health system CEOs. Dr. Gruner is president and CEO of ThedaCare, a five-hospital system in Appleton, Wis., with roughly 6,100 employees. Mr. Van Gorder, a former police officer, is president and CEO of… Read more »

Paul Spiegelman, Inc Magazine You might not feel it day-to-day, but business management is in a major transition.  The old days of command-and-control leadership are fading in favor of what might be better termed a trust-and-track method, in which people are not just told what to do, but why they are doing it.  More formally,… Read more »

November 12, 2012 7:23 am by Christy Rakoczy, Med City News   Readmission is a major problem in U.S. hospitals, so much so that Hospital Impact reports that one out of every five Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged. Hospital Impact reports that these readmissions come at a… Read more »

Healthcare on track to see 124 mass layoffs, affecting about 8,700 people by the end of the year   November 5, 2012 | By Alicia Caramenico, Fierce Healthcare   Healthcare remains a bright spot in an otherwise bleak employment outlook, adding 31,000 jobs in October, according to data released Friday from the U.S. Bureau of… Read more »

Written by Molly Gamble | November 05, 2012 , Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Hospital Review hosted its Hospital Strategy Roundtable on Nov. 1 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago, bringing together 11 hospital industry leaders from across the country to discuss current challenges and opportunities facing the industry, as well as how today’s presidential election may… Read more »

Written by Bob Herman | November 05, 2012 , Becker’s Hospital Review Before hospitals and health systems can dive into a bundled payment demonstration or pilot program, CFOs and other executive leadership must understand the impact bundled payments can have on their organizations as well as patients. The American Hospital Association and the Association of American… Read more »

Chelsea Rice, for HealthLeaders Media, October 29, 2012   Healthcare and the economy are two of the major issues in this year’s presidential election. Voters across the country are wondering what impact the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will have on the recovering economy, particularly employment. According to a report from The Urban Institute… Read more »

This article appears in the October 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. Where are you placing your bets in the new reimbursement game? As the shift to value-based purchasing of healthcare services nears, in fits and starts and at different speeds in different areas, leaders of hospitals, health systems, and physician practices know they need to… Read more »