Articles Tagged With: Contracting
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Project to Improve Throughput Cut Length of Stay, Helped Bottom Line
A quality improvement project to shorten lengths of stay and improve throughput from the ED at Saint Francis Medical Center in Hartford, CT, decreased the length of stay by more than half a day from November 2015 through May 2016.
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Case Managers are Link Between Clinical, Financial Sides
Today’s hospitals have to perform a balancing act between the clinical and financial sides of healthcare, focusing on providing top-quality care while following payers’ ever-changing rules and regulations and maintaining the bottom line.
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Set up rehab contracts to avoid headaches
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Get involved with disease management efforts
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Group fosters cooperation in a competitive market
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A look at value-based purchasing in action
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Facts on health care purchasing coalitions
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Corporations want to negotiate directly with providers on care quality
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Fed up with HMO as the middleman, physicians are reclaiming health care
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Employers’ interest grows in building coalitions