Strategic Planning
As 2014 winds down, we've taken a look back at some of the biggest stories in healthcare finance in the past year. See what you may have missed.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare has named Lori Ritchey-Baldwin chief financial officer after serving as vice president of finance for the past two years
Between online marketplaces for Social Security numbers and data hijackings at Sony and critical access hospitals, catching and preventing fraud has never been more important or dependent on technology.
Last week's initial public offering for biotech company Juno Therapeutics could pay dividends for several Seattle-based healthcare providers as the company brings its cancer treatments to market.
Most healthcare organizations offer benefit programs aimed at keeping workers in both good physical and mental health. But less common are healthcare employers that can prove those same programs actually save the organization money.
Why has healthcare lagged so far behind information technology in terms of innovation? Focusing on that question will allow us to move beyond our endless squabble over how many people have an insurance card in their wallet.
More than $665 million will be distributed to states around the country to test new service and payment models, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday.
UnitedHealthcare and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are piloting an episode of care, or bundled, payment model for patients being treated with head and neck cancers, a collaboration they describe as among the first to use bundled payments in a large, comprehensive oncology center.
More than 50 accountable care organizations across the United States took in millions in incentive payments in 2014 after exceeding savings benchmarks set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The Jane Phillips Medical Center, member of St. John Health System in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, named James Brasel as the hospital's chief financial officer, effective Dec. 1.