Sherree Geyer
Experts say patient portals can offer financial benefits that improve collections, reduce staff workload and better engage patients.
Investing gives health systems the chance to partner at the first phase of promising new healthcare technologies and services. But it also allows systems to have an attractive investment, given modest returns from securities and low bank interest rates.
For many hospitals, a sound financial assistance policy is the only way to bridge the gap between giving life-saving treatment to the patients who need it, while protecting their balance sheets from bad debt.
Providers should use outcomes-based evidence to drive decisions about what they will continue to offer and what they won't, experts say.
With giant commercial health insurers announcing plans to merge, and experts predicting more consolidation, healthcare providers will be weighing their options when it comes to price negotiations.
There's a crisis in rural health, and while the future for these smaller, remote hospitals may seem bleak, experts see a major change in the model to keep these providers afloat.
For-profit healthcare gets big bump from King v. Burwell ruling.
Patient engagement can ensure the delivery of patient- and family-centered care while bolstering the ability of accountable care organizations to meet quality and savings goals.
Frugal spending and an academic approach to planning helps Hill Country Memorial earn high honors.
The CFO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, says the move towards value-based payment models helps the hospital emphasize value of care over volume, which reduces readmissions.