Cost Management

Expert Insights

• Breaking even on Medicare: Do you have a plan?

  April 13, 2012 | Blog Post | Financial Leadership Council
  

  Read how the finance team at Mountain States Health Alliance created an integrated margin improvement plan for breaking even on Medicare over the next 5 to 10 years.

• Bridging the finance-HR divide to cut benefits costs

  March 11, 2010 | Expert Perspective | Financial Leadership Council
  

  Learn the three reasons why hospitals fail to make headway against rising benefits costs.

• 10 indicators of potential excess administrative overhead

  February 18, 2010 | Expert Perspective | HR Investment Center
  

  Discover the indicators of excess administrative overhead, culled from hundreds of interviews with leading hospital executives and industry experts.

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Research

• 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.

• Running on Medicare Margins

  September 16, 2011 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Explore the major forces shaping hospital margins across the next decade and learn how to develop a comprehensive margin improvement strategy.

• Flattening the Supply Cost Growth Curve: 10 Steps for Achieving Sustainable Preference Item Savings

  January 13, 2010 | Study | Financial Leadership Council
  

  Learn the precise implementation order and active ingredients of an efficacious preference item management program.

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Tools & Analytics

• The Total Margin Scenario Planner

  April 16, 2012 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board

  Generate institution-specific 5- and 10-year outlooks for payer mix, case mix, volume, occupancy, and operating margins; useful for exploring the sensitivity of margin projections to changes in underlying market forces.

• Cost of Turnover Calculator

  January 1, 2011 | Tool | HR Investment Center

  Get an estimate of institution-specific cost of turnover for a specific employee, a type of position, an individual unit, or the entire organization.

• Medicare Financial Benchmark Generator

  December 2, 2010 | Tool | Cardiovascular Roundtable
  

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

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Multimedia

• The crossroads of hospital supply chain management: Outsource to third parties or invest in an autonomous infrastructure?

  August 31, 2010 | Video | Financial Leadership Council
  

  Kyle Rose discusses growing interest in bringing the supply chain function into the hospital and innovative trends that facilitate this movement.

• Capturing return on wellness initiatives

  August 3, 2010 | Video | HR Investment Center
  

  Hear results from our heart and vascular integration benchmarking survey and find out why nearly half of your peers maintain a collocated service line.

• Building a highly productive nursing organization

  October 18, 2010 | Multimedia | Nursing Executive Center
  

  This interactive multimedia presentation will help you access the information most relevant to your organization’s most pressing productivity challenges.

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