Medicare Breakeven

Research Compendia

Running on Medicare Margins

January 1, 2012 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

Explore the major forces shaping hospital margins across the next decade and learn best practices for developing a comprehensive margin improvement strategy.
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.

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.

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.

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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.