Finance

Research Compendia

• Bending the Expense Growth Curve

  April 26, 2012 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

  Review best practices for standardizing clinical resource utilization, boosting labor productivity, and building flexible labor pools.

• Achieving Full Revenue Capture

  April 26, 2012 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

  Learn best practices for succeeding under value-based purchasing, achieving best-in-class documentation, and maximizing revenue cycle performance.

• Expanding Effective Capacity

  April 26, 2012 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

  Adopt best practices for reducing length of stay, securing physician referrals, and ensuring effective care transitions.

• Proactively Managing Case Mix

  April 26, 2012 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

  Browse best practices for fostering ambulatory growth, rationalizing utilization across the care continuum, and addressing readmissions.

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Tools & Analytics

• Margin Improvement Intensive 

  Onsite Presentation | Health Care Advisory Board

  Combines customized scenarios for key financial and operational metrics with a facilitated onsite session and an institution-specific action plan to help hospitals and health systems prepare for ever-greater reliance on publicly insured volume. Contact us for more information.

• Total Margin Scenario Planner 

  March 9, 2012 | Decision Guide | Health Care Advisory Board

  Generate institution-specific five- and 10-year outlooks for payer mix, case mix, volume, occupancy, and operating margins.

• Medicare Financial Benchmark Generator

  December 2, 2011 | Decision Guide | Health Care Advisory Board

  Access user-defined, peer-group benchmarks for key inpatient utilization and financial metrics.

• Cost Reduction Opportunity Assessment

  March 14, 2012 | Decision Guide | Health Care Advisory Board

  Review a facility-specific estimate of avoidable direct costs to identify focused opportunities for cost reduction.

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Multimedia

• Why margin improvement can't wait

  April 20, 2012 | Video | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Christopher Kerns defines the operational and demographic forces that threaten hospital margins and introduces the Medicare Breakeven Project.

• The new performance standard 

  January 6, 2012 | Infographic | Health Care Advisory Board

  A graphical look at how trends in pricing, cost, payer mix, and case mix will impact operating margins—and what we must do to respond.

• Survive—and thrive—on Medicare margins

  October 20, 2011 | Video | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Chas Roades introduces the Advisory Board's Medicare Breakeven Project.

Products & Services

• Medicare Breakeven Project

  Peer working group for providers who are preparing for or participating in Medicare demonstrations, pilots, or programs that evaluate emerging payment models, with a specific focus on Medicare breakeven strategies.

• ICD-10

  Consulting services and business intelligence technology to help hospitals and health systems make the transition to ICD-10.

• Revenue Integrity Compass

  Technology-powered solution that helps hospitals and health systems protect revenues from audit activity, address underpaid claims, and systematically remedy clinical documentation issues.

• Medicare Payment Innovation Project

  Peer working group for providers who are preparing for or participating in Medicare demonstrations, pilots, or programs that evaluate emerging payment models.