Opening Up: How Pricing Transparency Will Change Hospital Benchmarking
Years before healthcare reform and publicized hospital charges stirred up demand for more clarity surrounding the cost of care, Omaha, Neb.-based Alegent Creighton Health’s CEO made a bold statement at a management forum: Click to continue »
Safety-Nets: Can They Go From “Last Resort” to “Hospitals of Choice”?
Of all American healthcare organizations, safety-net hospitals are facing one of the largest curveballs, as nearly 30 million Americans stand to gain coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beginning in 2014. Click to continue »
Physician Compensation: 10 Core Legal and Regulatory Concepts
As the trend of hospital employment of physicians continues, federal and state governments have increased their focus on physician compensation and compliance with healthcare laws. In the past several years, investigations focusing on compensation paid by a hospital to its physician employees have dramatically increased. Click to continue »
Publisher’s Letter
200 Hospital Benchmarks — 2013
Data is enlightening, but also overwhelming. Data can be incredibly useful, but must also be used with forethought. Click to continue »
Restructuring for Future Success: Q&A With SSM Health Care’s Chris Howard
Chris Howard will soon start building up frequent flier miles — the leader recently took charge of 18 hospitals in four states when he became the president of hospital operations and executive vice president of St. Louis-based SSM Health Care. Click to continue »
Becker’s Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting Brochure
Reducing ACO Patient Leakage Begins With Education
For hospitals and health systems, attracting patients to receive care in their network and keeping them in-network has always been important. Click to continue »
Despite Increases in Hospital Employment, 53% of Physicians Are Self-Employed
Despite the trend in healthcare of hospitals and health systems acquiring and employing physicians, more than half of physicians — 53.2 percent — were self-employed in 2012, according to a study released by the American Medical Association. Click to continue »
3 Steps to Ensure Physician Alignment, Performance and Career Satisfaction
The business of medicine, the relationship between physicians and hospitals and the demands on physicians are changing at an unprecedented rate. Click to continue »
From Sprints to Marathons: How to Help Hospital Leaders Cope With Continuous Change
I’ve spoken to dozens of hospital associations so far this year, and by and large, leaders are all too familiar with the big changes facing their organizations. Click to continue »
Big Data and HIEs are Paving the Way to Meaningful Population Health Management
Digitizing each aspect of the healthcare industry requires time and space for growth, adoption and evolution before truly taking root. Click to continue »
Keeping Healthcare Local: Why Some Providers Choose Non-Ownership Collaborations Over Mergers
In July, Trinity Health, a nonprofit health system based in Minot, N.D., made a decision more and more healthcare organizations have been making lately. Click to continue »
Rural Healthcare Amidst Reform: Are Critical Access Hospitals Endangered?
In November 2009, Debra Wright, RN, MSBA, stepped into the corner office as CEO of Howard Memorial Hospital in Nashville — that is, Nashville, Ark. Click to continue »
Study: Highest-Priced Hospitals Have Charges Up to 60% Higher Than Competitors
The highest-priced hospitals within a market often have charges that are 60 percent higher than the lowest-priced market competitor, and the high-priced hospitals often wield an immense amount of influence in their areas, according to a study from the Center for Studying Health System Change. Click to continue »
CMS Issues Final Rule Cutting $1.1B in Medicaid DSH Payments
CMS has issued a final rule on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments, cutting roughly $1.1 billion from the program over the next two fiscal years. Click to continue »
14 Statistics on Healthcare CEO Severance Packages
Roughly 83 percent of hospitals and healthcare organizations have a written severance agreement with their CEO, according to a healthcare CEO severance survey from Mercer, Witt/Kieffer and Hunton & Williams. Click to continue »
60 Statistics on Physician Compensation by Specialty
Of the 30 physician specialties studied by the American Medical Group Association, the highest-compensated physicians in 2012 were cardiologists in the cath lab, according to the AMGA’s 2013 compensation and financial survey. Click to continue »
Chuck Lauer: My 20 Life Lessons
People often suggest to me that I share some of the insights I have gained in a long life and career in healthcare, publishing, public speaking and consulting. Click to continue »
Hospital & Health System Executive Moves
Hospital & Health System Transactions
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