Lola Butcher

Many healthcare leaders think episode of care payments make sense for maternity and newborn care, but few know how to make them work. Those at the forefront of this payment innovation share what they have learned.

Aspirus is one of many health systems that partner with insurance companies to form joint-venture health plans that bring healthcare financing and delivery closer together.

Illinois Gastroenterology Group negotiated a specialty intensive medical home contract with the state’s largest private payer.

Mount Sinai Health System partnered with a trade union to develop a bundled-payment program designed to improve patient outcomes and reduce the purchaser’s costs.

Pacific Business Group on Health, a leader in direct contracting, uses an extensive evaluation process to choose the provider organizations for its Employers Centers of Excellence Network.

Three revenue cycle leaders explain how their organizations extend financial assistance to patients who decline to obtain coverage from an insurance exchange, even though they are eligible to do so.

CHRISTUS Health appoints regional executives who work with coalition partners to reach market-specific health insurance exchange enrollment goals.

“If you begin to view your revenue cycle as an asset versus overhead, you begin to make strategic investments in that asset and you begin to develop and grow that asset,” says Jeffery Hurst of Florida Hospital.