Strategic Planning

As the healthcare industry moves from volume to value, tech vendors including Cerner, Craneware, Premier Revenue Solutions LLC and ZirMed Inc. are attempting to fill the need in the market by working with hospitals to integrate their revenue, clinical and operational systems.

Hospital systems and other nonprofit healthcare institutions could soon find themselves losing long-held tax exemptions, as another major health system, New Jersey's Atlantic Health System, has lost its legal fight to avoid paying property taxes.

Individual marketplace plans are in for huge rate increases next year, some fear, but the ACA markets so far suggest that many organizations, including provider-owned plans, are holding the line, according to researchers with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Urban Institute.

With Aetna's market share set to balloon next year after its takeover of Humana wraps up, the insurer is trying to assuage health systems that might fear greater reimbursement pressure.

According to tax and advisory firm KPMG, 74 percent of healthcare providers say they are either in the beginning stages or have not even begun to invest is systems for analytics and financial reporting.

Yale created a process that linked financial and clinical data, giving physicians access to information they didn't have before.

Prepayment, patient engagement and clear estimates are a success for St. Luke's Health System.

Ian Morrison tells insiders at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2015 Annual National Institute that U.S. systems have to reconcile costs to improve value.

Speakers at the Healthcare Management Association 2015 Annual Institute warn providers to embrace models like capitation, accountable care and bundled payments.

Healthcare Finance will be on the ground at the conference and will file live reports from the sessions.