Don't Forget the Operations Planning
Frank Kittredge, senior principal and national practice leader for the Facility Planning Practice at the Noblis Center for Health Innovation, talks about ways to bring more robust operational planning into facility planning.
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Device Dysfunctionality
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December 1, 2008
John Bardis, chairman, president and CEO of MedAssets, discusses a variety of issues facing healthcare.
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Costs of the Credit Deep Freeze
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November 10, 2008
Al Stubblefield, CEO of the Baptist Health Care Corporation, discusses the freeze in the credit markets and how that's affecting hospitals' expansion and M&A plans for the coming year and beyond.
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Risky Business
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October 27, 2008
Karen Gries, a certified public accountant and principal with Larson-Allen, talks about new accounting rules associated with the IRS' Form 990, and parts of the form hospitals should pay special attention to.
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Deep Impact
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October 13, 2008
Scott Clay, a senior principal with the Noblis Center for Health Innovation, talks about the effect of the deepening financial crisis on healthcare organizations.
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Controversy Over RAC
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September 29, 2008
With the controversial Recovery Audit Contractor program going nationwide by 2010, many hospitals are concerned about the high number of overpayments collected from providers.
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Challenges in Finance
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September 15, 2008
Stephen Farber, former Tenet Healthcare chief financial officer, discusses CFO challenges, hospitals potentially using credit scores to deny care, and the biggest challenges to revenue cycle improvement.
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The Source of Bad Debt
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September 2, 2008
Finance Editor Phil Betbeze talks with Earl Winter, CEO of nTelagent Inc., whose company recently ran a test of aged trial balance analyses for some of their customers.
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Preparing for the RAC
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August 18, 2008
Michael Taylor, MD, discusses the CMS Recovery Audit Contractor demonstration project.
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Certifying Need
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August 4, 2008
Deborah Kolb-Collier, a senior principal in the strategy and planning practice at the Noblis Center for Health Innovation, discusses certificate-of-need laws and what they mean to competition in healthcare.
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Convenient Care Clinics and Stand-Alone ERs: A Threat to Doctors?
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July 21, 2008
Paul Breslin, a senior principal at the Noblis Center for Health Innovation, discusses the strategic implications of the proliferation of convenient care clinics and standalone emergency rooms to physicians and physician practices.
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Cardio Payment Changes
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July 7, 2008
Steve Blades, president of the Cardiovascular Outpatient Center Alliance, says his membership is concerned about proposed Medicare reimbursement changes.
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From Top Leadership Teams: A Broad Spectrum
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June 23, 2008
Rick Breon and Mike Freed, CEO and CFO, respectively, of Spectrum Health explain how Spectrum's 500,000-member health plan is useful in helping hold down healthcare prices in their region.
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The High Cost of Obesity
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June 9, 2008
HealthLeaders Media senior finance editor Philip Betbeze speaks with Joan Roberts, senior director at Novation, the contracting services arm of VHA, about the increasing costs to hospitals for treating the obese.
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Analyzing Medicare
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May 19, 2008
Bill Richburg, a former hospital CEO, CFO, and CIO, advises on how to accurately identify both overpayments and underpayments from Medicare to improve financial performance.
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Alternative Financing
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May 5, 2008
Randy Waring, hospital market leader for GE Healthcare Financial Services, talks about the options available to CFOs who are looking for lower risk, lower interest rates, or both.
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Supply Chain Management
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March 31, 2008
HealthLeaders Media Finance Editor Philip Betbeze interviews Jim McManus, vice president of finance at St. Joseph Health System in Orange, California.
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Rewarding Quality
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March 31, 2008
Barry Arbuckle, CEO of MemorialCare Medical Centers in Long Beach, CA, talks about the importance of developing quality measurement tools that are as robust as financial measurement systems that have been in place for years.
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The Gains in Venture Capital
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March 14, 2008
Matthew Hermann, president of Ascension Health Ventures, speaks about how some hospitals are investing in venture capital not only for the potential financial gains, but also to take advantage of the innovative solutions.
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Across-the-Board Transparency
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February 29, 2008
Michael Freed, chief financial officer for Spectrum Health, talks about the strategy behind Spectrum's initiative to list what the hospital is paid by a variety of payers for healthcare services.
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Led Out of the Wilderness
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February 25, 2008
In this podcast Paul Kronenberg, MD, the CEO of Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, NY, talks about how obstetrics became the saving grace of the hospital.
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Don't Forget the Operations Planning
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February 11, 2008
Frank Kittredge, senior principal and national practice leader for the Facility Planning Practice at the Noblis Center for Health Innovation, talks about ways to bring more robust operational planning into facility planning.
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Strategy Trumps Finance
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January 28, 2008
Spectrum Health CFO Michael Freed says strategy trumps finance. To be effective in modern times, a CFO has to develop a financial plan that helps the CEO achieve the goals he's outlined in his strategy.
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A Lucrative Partnership
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January 13, 2008
At one point just a few years ago, MemorialCare Health System was spending between $50 and $60 million annually on registry and travel nurses. Meanwhile, a local university was preparing to reduce by half the number of slots available for nursing students because of state budget cuts. Here, MemorialCare CEO Barry Arbuckle speaks on the financial strategy panel at HealthLeaders' Top Leadership Teams event about a nursing program his system developed in conjunction with that university. The program has helped MemorialCare save large expenditures in registry and travel nursing costs.
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Top Leadership Teams: Leveling the Field
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December 17, 2007
Brad King, CFO at Oregon Health & Science University, talks about how the hospital portion of the university faced potential closure 15 years ago and an unlevel competitive playing field with insurers.
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These Days, Nurses are Getting More Respect
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Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, December 3, 2007
Deborah Zastocki is CEO of Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains, NJ, but for the purposes of this interview, I focused on her prior career as a registered nurse. I recently spoke with Deborah about a shift in thinking whereby healthcare executives are now seeing nurses not as overhead but as rainmakers. What that means is that given their greater interactive roles with patients, nurses will be increasingly important to the hospital's financial health as doctors do more work outside the hospital and nurses become the primary touchpoint for patients. Since nurses have more opportunities than ever before to influence quality, and since most people believe incremental gains in hospital reimbursement are beginning to hinge on quality measures, nurse morale and retention will be increasingly important.
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Listen: Reworking the Pension Plan at Moses Cone
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Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders News, November 12, 2007
A defined benefit pension plan can place a huge burden on hospital or health system finances. Many if not most hospitals still have such plans open to new hires, and those that don't still must manage the liabilities for the plan so that they can survive long-term to benefit current enrollees. So it's a cost uncertainty problem for most hospitals in an era where cost uncertainty can be a big liability. Elizabeth Ward, who's been CFO at Moses Cone Health System in Greensboro, NC, since 2001, had some work to do with the system's defined benefit pension plan over the past several years.
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A New (Old) Player in Healthcare Finance
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August 17, 2007
Mike Gervais, CEO of the Philadelphia-based Gemino Healthcare Finance, talks about the shift away from the municipal bond market for some hospital funding needs, guesses on whether we're near the end of the era of cheap debt, and whether there's a need for another player in this field.
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