Are Your CDHP Participants Fully Understanding their Plans? By Carly Dunham
Employee ignorance about consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) is a significant barrier to CDHP adoption and usefulness. Health plans, brokers and employers have an obligation to ensure that CDHP end-users know how their plans work, via their CDHP-related communications and materials.
5 Key Steps to Boost Post-Merger Credentialing By Josh Nathan
A hospital merger or acquisition can easily complicate credentialing and re-credentialing. Rather than potentially alienating your physicians and jeopardizing your revenue stream due to post-merger credentialing issues, consider instead these five steps for credentialing success.
Three Steps for Maximizing Your Consulting Relationship By Samir Panchal
Why do some external consulting relationships seem to thrive, while others become challenging? In this article, we explore how and why a major health care provider significantly benefited from an external consulting relationship, and how you can apply these lessons to your organization, no matter its type or size.
Are Your Employees Truly Aligned with Your Strategic Priorities? By Shanti Wilson
A recent Harvard Business Review article revealed that only 29 percent of employees could correctly identify their employer’s strategy when given a list of six strategic choices.
Seven must-dos to ensure charge description master (CDM) success By Mark Jahn
Failure to effectively manage the CDM leads to incorrect bills and missed reimbursement opportunities, as well as potential compliance and regulatory risks and lower patient satisfaction scores. All of these items can cost an organization millions or even tens of millions of dollars annually.
Project Management Basics: Have You Mastered These Six Fundamentals? By Cathy Savinsky
No matter your type of health care organization, your project management fundamentals should be defined by the terms why, what, when, who, where, and how.
Getting your “Value-Based Care House” in Order by Embracing Primary Care By Sylvia Dochterman
Many primary care strategies fall short because health systems focus on the old “heads in beds” mentality. Instead, with value-based care, we need primary care to keep patients out of the hospital.
Five Lessons for Making Your Care Coordination Efforts a Lasting Reality By Crystal Cox Cooper and Robin Figueroa
Care coordination can make the difference toward achieving more consistently positive patient health outcomes. It also helps providers meet several new and increasing outcomes-related financial incentives.
Stand Up for Your Health: Combat the Perils of “Sitting Disease”!
For those in health care who predominately work sitting down, it can be challenging – and easy to forget – to occasionally step away from your work. There is growing evidence that sedentary behavior is negatively affecting our health in a way that is costly to our employers and may literally be killing us.
Ask These Five Key Questions before Restructuring Your Health Care Organization By Kelly Huffman
It is a challenging dichotomy. Just as demand for health services continues to rise, health care payers and providers face difficult decisions around potentially changing their organizational structures to meet the health care industry’s upheaval.
Planning Your Remote Patient Monitoring Strategy? By Alan Little
As recently as five years ago, due to a variety of technological and financial factors, providers, insurers and patients were relatively slow to adopt remote patient monitoring (RPM) – technology that enables patients to be monitored outside of traditional clinical settings.