TAKING Control Again It can be easy to conclude that you’ve done all you can to increase efficiency and lower costs. You have done a good job with making budgetary cuts, trimming in ways large and small to maximize productivity. Yet the same issues persist. More needs to be done. It can feel like events […]
WORKING from Facts The well-known business adage states: If you can measure it, you can manage it. The same applies to health care operations. In the health care industry, spending assumptions can be off-base, sometimes by a large degree. It becomes difficult to manage expenses effectively when not starting from a base of verified, validated […]
RISING Above Fear Let’s be blunt about it. Health care today is conducted within an intensely competitive environment, due in large part to the changing and expanding role of government. Government and insurer reimbursements are being reduced or managed much more closely. The health care industry itself is being reinvented and restructured at the Federal […]
UNLOCKING Greater Savings and Profitability in Health Care As a health care administrator, you have a tough job. How to reduce costs while improving patient care and staff performance? How to find new ways to achieve efficiency, after cutting expenses in every apparent way possible? How to cope with governmental practices that promise to change […]