A task force formed by the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American Institute of CPAs is expected to issue a report on the accounting treatment of EHRs by the end of July.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans talks with president and CEO Richard Clarke about the association's healthcare value project.
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Change-management guru and motivational speaker Mark Thompson outlined five principles to successfully manage change and provided examples of how some leaders undermine those ideas with bad behavior.
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Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare hired consultants to improve operations by $70 million to better position the struggling health system for a merger.
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SSM Health Care did not exit its more volatile investments for the safety of cash during the low point of the credit upheaval, a decision that allowed the system to profit from the markets' rebound.
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Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda talks with attendees of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute in Orlando, Fla., about some of their biggest financial challenges.
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Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda talks with Debbie Welle-Powell, vice president of Exempla Healthcare, Denver, about her system's experience with CMS' bundled payment demonstration project.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans reports from Orlando, Fla., on the fourth and final day of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute.
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Rural hospitals may have been largely left out of the reform law, but those hospitals should still pay attention to the law's major provisions, says Tim Wolters of Citizens Memorial Healthcare.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans reports from Orlando, Fla., on the third day of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute and offers a preview of day four.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans talks with Robert DeMichiei, senior vice president and chief financial officer, of the UPMC, Pittsburgh, about using technology to standardize supply orders and reduce costs at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National...
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Modern Healthcare reporter Vince Galloro talks with Jeffrey Limbocker, chief financial officer of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge, La., about managing physician practices at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute in Orlando.
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The structure of physician alignment arrangements is important, but the real key is to hire or partner with the right physicians in the first place, according to health system executives.
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Peter Orszag, former director of the OMB, said an overhaul of U.S. healthcare payment to reward value cannot succeed without Medicare, yet policymakers face gridlock.
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Hospitals' access to credit depends less on the weak U.S. economy than on investors' opinion of the industry and borrowers' financial performance, Standard & Poor's Martin Arrick said.
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Buying health insurance benefits from Kaiser Permanente could be cheaper, but because of some unusually high costs, the company charges more than it should, according to a company president.
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Two consultants gave a detailed breakdown of the CMS' new value-based purchasing program for Medicare that left fiscal officers muttering under their breaths about how much work it means.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Vince Galloro reports from Orlando, Fla., on the second day of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute and offers a preview of day three.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Paul Barr talks to Dr. Bruce Wellman, CEO of Carle Physician Group, Urbana, Ill., about how integrated delivery of healthcare is working for Carle, at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute in Orlando, Fla.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Vince Galloro talks with Dr. Joseph Bisordi, executive vice president and chief medical officer for Ochsner Health System, at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute about physician staffing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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