Download or read book Cutting Costs in the Physician Practice written by Alan S. Whiteman and published by American Medical Association Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, physician practices had a large margin of profit, but with the growth of managed care this margin has shrunk. For a practice to remain financially viable, careful attention must be paid to analyzing and controlling costs. This book will provide physicians and practice administrators with practical guidelines for approaching cost containment issues within the practice. The authors will address the eight areas of the practice where costs most often get out of control, and will present strategies for managing practice costs effectively. Readers will come away with practical, tested solutions and ideas for cost savings that will enhance the bottom line.
Download or read book Cutting Costs in the Physician Practice written by Alan S. Whiteman, Ph.D. and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Healthcare Imperative written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.
Download or read book Cutting Costs in the Medical Practice written by Alan S. Whiteman and published by Greenbranch Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High profits in the medical practice are no longer a given. Even the most successful practice must manage costs effectively to stay viable. Written specifically for physicians, practice administrators and office managers, Cutting Costs in the Medical Practice, 2nd Edition provides no-nonsense practical guidelines for approaching cost containment issues within the practice. Authors and experienced consultants Alan Whiteman, Jerry Hermanson and Dennis Palkon identify key areas in medical practices where costs can spin out of control. And, they offer solutions that have been proven successful in other practices. Armed with this roadmap, physicians and executive staff can better put their resources to work - building a stronger, financially secure practice.
Download or read book Cost Cutting Measures Possible If Public Health Service Hospital System is to Continue written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital Costs written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rewarding Provider Performance written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-02-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third installment in the Pathways to Quality Health Care series, Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare, continues to address the timely topic of the quality of health care in America. Each volume in the series effectively evaluates specific policy approaches within the context of improving the current operational framework of the health care system. The theme of this particular book is the staged introduction of pay for performance into Medicare. Pay for performance is a strategy that financially rewards health care providers for delivering high-quality care. Building on the findings and recommendations described in the two companion editions, Performance Measurement and Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program, this book offers options for implementing payment incentives to provide better value for America's health care investments. This book features conclusions and recommendations that will be useful to all stakeholders concerned with improving the quality and performance of the nation's health care system in both the public and private sectors.
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital Costs Cost Control Efforts at 17 Texas Hospitals written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Implications of Cost effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Step By Step on Doubling the Value of Your Practice Without Seeing More Patients written by Hernan Rizo and published by The CFO Group USA. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Step-by-Step on Doubling the Value of Your Practice Without Seeing More Patients – A Guide to Modern Practice Management- has everything you need to know to navigate your physician and dental career through today’s unparalleled business environment. Even after the pandemic, even after the harsh financial conditions some private practitioners have gone through lately, I can assure you, this is the most exciting and profitable time to be in private practice. You’ll learn how to increase profitability in your practice, enhance revenues, cut costs, optimize operations, all out of your current book of business. You’ll also learn how to value and groom your practice for sale and how to turn the tables on DSO’s and Private Equity Groups allowing you to keep most of the final, realized value of your practice. This is the culmination of 20 years of the CFO Group’s experience working with private practitioners.
Download or read book Best Care at Lower Cost written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. According to this report, the knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost. The costs of the system's current inefficiency underscore the urgent need for a systemwide transformation. About 30 percent of health spending in 2009-roughly $750 billion-was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. Moreover, inefficiencies cause needless suffering. By one estimate, roughly 75,000 deaths might have been averted in 2005 if every state had delivered care at the quality level of the best performing state. This report states that the way health care providers currently train, practice, and learn new information cannot keep pace with the flood of research discoveries and technological advances. About 75 million Americans have more than one chronic condition, requiring coordination among multiple specialists and therapies, which can increase the potential for miscommunication, misdiagnosis, potentially conflicting interventions, and dangerous drug interactions. Best Care at Lower Cost emphasizes that a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system, such as mobile technologies and electronic health records that offer significant potential to capture and share health data better. In order for this to occur, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, IT developers, and standard-setting organizations should ensure that these systems are robust and interoperable. Clinicians and care organizations should fully adopt these technologies, and patients should be encouraged to use tools, such as personal health information portals, to actively engage in their care. This book is a call to action that will guide health care providers; administrators; caregivers; policy makers; health professionals; federal, state, and local government agencies; private and public health organizations; and educational institutions.
Download or read book Changing Physician Practice Patterns written by Elaine Zablocki and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource provides a concise overview of the techniques used to change physician behavior in a health industry ruled by newly-formed networks & under increasing pressure to remain cost-efficient, often in a capitated environment.Techniques used by managed care organizations from across the country will be highlighted.Topical summaries on key issues will include how to develop practice guidelines, how to win physician support, data gathering, liability issues, & probably most important, how to get started.
Download or read book The Costs and Effectiveness of Nurse Practitioners written by Lauren LeRoy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Practice Style and Healthcare Costs written by Gautam Gowrisankaran and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the variation across emergency department (ED) physicians in their resource use and health outcomes, and the relationship between ED resource use and future healthcare costs and outcomes. Our data record the initial treating hospital, ED physician, ED billed expenditures, and all interactions with the provincial health system within the subsequent 90 days for EDs in Montreal, Canada. Physicians in Montreal rotate across shifts between simple and difficult cases, implying a quasi-random assignment of patients to physicians conditional on the choice of ED. We consider three medical conditions that present frequently in the ED and for which mistreatment can result in dramatic consequences: angina, appendicitis, and transient ischemic attacks. To control for variation across physicians in their diagnostic acumen, for each condition, our sample consists of patients with a broader set of symptoms and signs that could be indicative of the condition. We regress measures of healthcare costs on indicators for the hospital and ED physician separately by condition. We then evaluate the correlations between different measures of skill and resource use. We find strong positive correlations of physician resource use and skills across the three conditions. However, physicians with costly practice styles are often associated with worse outcomes, in terms of more ED revisits and more hospitalizations. One exception is that for patients in the angina sample, ED physicians with more spending have fewer hospitalizations. Comparisons of physician effects for the base and broader sets of conditions show that both diagnosis and disposition skills are important.
Download or read book The Changing Economics of Medical Technology written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans praise medical technology for saving lives and improving health. Yet, new technology is often cited as a key factor in skyrocketing medical costs. This volume, second in the Medical Innovation at the Crossroads series, examines how economic incentives for innovation are changing and what that means for the future of health care. Up-to-date with a wide variety of examples and case studies, this book explores how payment, patent, and regulatory policiesâ€"as well as the involvement of numerous government agenciesâ€"affect the introduction and use of new pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical procedures. The volume also includes detailed comparisons of policies and patterns of technological innovation in Western Europe and Japan. This fact-filled and practical book will be of interest to economists, policymakers, health administrators, health care practitioners, and the concerned public.
Download or read book Hearing on Medicare s Reimbursement Cuts written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulations, Health Care, and Trade and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
