Optimizing Care Delivery Through Perioperative Value-Based Care
A focus on value during perioperative care can result in better financial and clinical performance.
The Golden Hour for Member Engagement: Onboarding and Pre-Boarding for Lower Costs and Improved Healthcare Consumer Experience
Cynthia Nustad describes how commercial health plans can improve consumer communication.
Total Joint Replacement Costs Decline
Value-based models such as bundled payment and accountable care organizations have bolstered reductions in total joint replacement costs.
After the Performance Improvement Initiative Ends: Sustaining Gains with Analysis
Southern Illinois Healthcare saved approximately $60 million in one year through improved denials management and billing protocols and reductions in clinical variability, supplies, and benefit costs.
Cost Accounting Evolves as Provider Needs Change
Organizations can use their current data to understand what it truly costs to deliver healthcare services. Using existing data and automating the pull of that data also allows for less human intervention to maintain cost accounting models.
Why Organizational Culture is Critical to Success
Effective leadership requires good communications skills as well as a strong vision.
Pursuing an Integrated Approach to Pharmacy
This article looks at Premier’s work in helping health systems improve their pharmacy operations to be more integrated, cost-effective, and patient-focused.
Sustained Performance Improvement Requires Culture of Excellence
By using a systematic approach to build a culture of continuous improvement and implement Lean principles, health systems can dramatically boost operational performance in quality, safety, and other domains.
Enterprisewide Revenue Cycle Management Reduces Costs, Improves Patient Loyalty
Moving toward a holistic approach to revenue cycle management addresses increasing consumer demand for streamlined appointment scheduling, patient information sharing, and bill payment.
Revenue Cycle Departments Increase Productivity
A two-year rise in revenue cycle department productivity is attributed to outsourcing and staff ability to handle more claims in less time.