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Due to its substantial impact on a hospital’s bottom line, Tony Stajduhar, president of the Permanent Physician Recruitment Division at recruitment firm Jackson & Coker, believes physician recruitment should always be a top-five concern for hospital administrators -- something that he says is not always the case.
The healthcare industry is undergoing dramatic change, which means a new role for the hospital chief financial officer. CFOs must now be more strategic, and possess some very specific skills and experiences.
American healthcare needs a trillion dollar disruption, and the Affordable Care Act may end up supporting quite a bit of it -- while also slowing innovation in some areas, according to innovation researchers.
Coming just ahead of the opening of health insurance exchanges, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care topped the list of the National Committee for Quality Assurance annual rankings of 2013 health plans, followed by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care topped the list of the National Committee for Quality Assurance annual rankings of health insurance plans in 2013, followed by the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest.
The idea of Medicare bundled payments for post-acute care has a ways to go before it could be used widely, according to a study in CMS' Medicare and Medicaid Research Review.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending September 27, 2013.
Some healthcare organizations are beginning to disclose their prices in a bid towards transparency, but most still have not. However, that may change with continued cost pressures in an era of reform. And a new line of business may help push them.
As more price transparency companies (and the states) put healthcare pricing out in the public domain, providers and payers who have been reluctant to reveal their prices will be disrupted - maybe even so much that they’ll be forced to lower prices.
With the turbulence of healthcare reform has come an increase in the prevalence of severance agreements in contracts between healthcare organizations and CEOs found the 2013 Health Care CEO Severance Survey.