Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, July 24, 2012 This article appears in the July 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. Today, many hospital organizations are teeming with teams, forming physician groups to make decisions about bringing in new doctors, provide clinical care, and make recommendations about administrative planning: In Maryland, a longtime CMO retires and… Read more »
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4 ways to educate patients about the Affordable Care Act
July 23, 2012 | By Alicia Caramenico, Fierce Healthcare With much of the reform law upheld, hospital executives and other industry leaders need to help patients get a clue about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to improve outcomes and costs. Not sure how to inform patients about health reform? Here are four… Read more »
5 Tips for Taking on Risk in New Payment Models
Source: Becker’s Hospital Review It’s happening in different ways and different places around the country, but, broadly speaking, healthcare payors are starting to move away from traditional fee-for-service payment models. Providers, in turn, may be taking on a certain amount of risk in payment models that rely more heavily on capitated payments. Most accountable care… Read more »
Reducing admissions from the ED saves more than diverting nonurgent visits
July 16, 2012 | By Alicia Caramenico, FierceHealthcare Hospitals and health systems have been trying to curb nonurgent visits to the emergency department; however, researchers say that approach will save far fewer healthcare dollars than reducing hospital admissions for patients already in the ED, according to a paper published Thursday in Annals of Emergency… Read more »
How to Get Hospitals to Think ‘Lean’: 5 Key Principles
Written by Bob Spoerl | July 12, 2012, Becker’s Hospital Review What does car manufacturer Toyota and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University have in common? More than you might think. Hospitalists at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based children’s hospital have started successfully using the same ‘Lean’ business and management strategy made famous by the Japanese… Read more »
6 Key Issues Facing Healthcare in the Second Half of 2012
Written by Scott Becker, JD, CPA, and Lindsey Dunn | July 11, 2012, Becker’s Hospital Review The first half of 2012 has been an incredibly busy and momentous one for healthcare. Most notably, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was upheld by the Supreme Court. Other events this year impacting the industry may not have… Read more »
Troubled New York Hospitals Forgo Coverage for Malpractice
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS, New York Times Every hospital makes mistakes. But some New York City hospitals may not have enough money to pay for them. Several of the city’s most troubled hospitals are partially or completely uninsured for malpractice, state records show, forgoing what is considered a standard safeguard across the country. Some have saved… Read more »
Reform may hit hospitals harder
J.K. Wall, Indianapolis Business Journal The immediate reaction on Wall Street to last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding President Obama’s health care law was to buy hospital stocks and dump health insurance stocks. But at least one analyst expects the long-term outcome to be exactly opposite of that. Sheryl Skolnick, co-head of research at… Read more »
Academic Medical Centers: What’s Their Role in the Consolidating Healthcare Market?
Written by Maria Finarelli, principal, Health Strategies & Solutions | July 02, 2012 Health care organizations of all types and sizes are evaluating their ability to remain independent given the significant changes underway and on the horizon. According to Irving Levin Associates, 90 hospital merger or acquisition deals targeting 156 hospitals occurred in 2011, the highest… Read more »
5 Questions for Building Physician Engagement
Written by Ralph Jacobson, Founder and Principal, The Leader’s Toolbox | July 09, 2012 The challenge For most healthcare leaders, reform has focused on the implications of changes in payment models. Yet the objectives outlined in the Triple Aim require a significant redefinition in the way frontline personnel must work together to deliver service. No formulas,… Read more »