Accounting & Financial Management
Aetna posts strong fourth quarter, but a 16 percent decrease for the year.
Health system's marketing team uses data to target higher-paying commercially insured consumers to balance growing Medicare demographic.
The growth in expenses is attributed largely to rising prices for emergency department visits, surgery and prescription drugs.
Innovation Care Partners built a dashboard to engage physicians and offers them financial incentives to use the tool. The combination has already resulted in lower readmissions.
The operating loss per physician jumped from a 10 percent loss of net revenue to a 17.5 percent loss.
Hospital executives and finance teams are missing an opportunity to save money in paying unfunded pension liability. Here's how to avoid that costly mistake.
For many things, predictive modeling is a must, and just might mean the difference between savings and waste.
However, the adoption of alternative payment models grew by 6.3 percentage points in the commercial market.
Costs of opening its new 128-bed facility, write-offs for unpaid patient bills, and rising Medicare and Medicaid patient volumes blamed for system's losses.
Rising pension contributions, swelling labor and pharmaceutical costs are limiting cash flows.