Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
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Three underlying principles are critical to achieving permanent improvements in patient throughput: Objective assessment and leadership buy-in. Multiple and collaborative improvement approaches. Recognition and ongoing monitoring.
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Healthc Financ Manage · Jan 2008
The red and the blue: how the candidates would reform U.S. health care.
The major Democratic presidential candidates' plans for healthcare reform include implementing universal health care, establishing an employer mandate, expanding public programs, improving healthcare quality, and investing in health IT. The major Republican presidential candidates' plans include changing the tax code to provide incentives for people to buy insurance coverage, using private-market incentives to reduce costs, encouraging states to craft health reforms, and promoting competition and individual choice.
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Hospitals should carefully select joint venture partners. The joint venture evaluation process should involve a high-level screen of strategic opportunities. Hospitals should develop a full business plan for the joint venture.
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THE TOP LINE: There is a serious push for healthcare reform at the state and federal level. THE BOTTOM LINE: The reform proposals in the political pipeline differ from those in the policy analysis pipeline in that they are focused on providing coverage for the uninsured. ⋯ THE IMPLICATIONS: There is a danger of raising unrealistic expectations. Also, the impacts can be expected to vary substantially from market to market and from organization to organization.
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Healthc Financ Manage · Jun 2007
Data trends. Declining capacity in acute care hospitals may indicate problems.
Hospital types and utilization statistics for this article are from hospital Medicare cost reports as contained in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Cost Report Information System file. Data are reported according to hospital fiscal year ending dates. ⋯ Schuhmann (tschuhmann@costreport data.com) or William K. Shoemaker(wshoemakerC@ costreportdata.com).