Risk Management

“Not all readmissions can or should be prevented; indeed, some are planned as part of sound clinical care,” AHA says.

Some health systems are trying to help patients avoid high-cost bills altogether, by working with insurers to craft value-based plans that offer low out-of-pocket costs.

Department of Justice says chain allowed patients to undergo radiation cancer treatment that was not supervised by radiation oncologists.

A number of big deals, involving both for-profit and nonprofit health systems, have recently fallen apart amid pushback from regulators and skepticism from researchers, who note a lack of evidence about long-term quality and cost impacts.

Premera hack puts renewed focus on securing sensitive healthcare info.

Collect financial information upfront, fight insurance denials, and send a combined bill from hospital and physician among advice for hospital finance staff.

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.

Linda Burt, vice president and chief financial officer at Nebraska Methodist Health System in Omaha, Neb., sat down with Healthcare Finance News to discuss the primary ways in which hospital CFOs use analytics, and how data -- if assessed properly -- can reduce risk.