Community Benefit
Do it or else. Increasingly, that's the approach taken by employers who are offering financial incentives for workers to take part in wellness programs that incorporate screenings that measure blood pressure, cholesterol and body mass index, among other things.
While population health models are wonderful, they have happened too sporadically. The healthcare payment system is not supporting this work and the U.S. needs a value-based system that accurately rewards population health models and initiatives.
Third quarter financial results indicate that Kaiser Permanente, the giant California-based nonprofit health system, continues to gain strength.
Change has become routine for healthcare finance executives, as healthcare moves toward value and accountability. And this publication is not immune.
HCA's bet on walk-in clinics in a bustling metropolitan area is the latest evidence of the urgent need to improve and diversify the customer experience.
Like healthcare facilities across the country, Louisiana's hospitals must confront formidable financial challenges as care delivery models evolve and reimbursement mechanisms change.
Beginning in the 1970s, the conversion of nonprofit healthcare organizations to for-profit status created many new foundations. Soon, in the wake of the Affordable Care Act, even more "conversion" foundations will be created, resulting from what some have termed a "merger frenzy."
As healthcare's trade winds blow towards more consolidation, some nonprofit health systems are taking a new business turn, while trying to continue traditional charitable missions.
For U.S. community health centers, the recent announcement of $295 million in Affordable Care Act funding was welcome news. But the five-year period of mandatory ACA funding expires next September, meaning CHCs face a reduction of up to 70 percent in grant funding.
California's lingering backlog of Medi-Cal applications has left hundreds of thousands of people unable to access the healthcare they are entitled to receive, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.