Cost Management
A new AHA report highlights the significant growth in expenses across labor, drugs, and supplies, as well as the impact that rising inflation is having on hospital prices.
The documentary feature film, INHOSPITABLE, will premiere at the DOC NYC film festival on Nov. 13. According to the film’s website, it purports to “expose American hospitals’ significant role in our broken healthcare system.”
Hospitals and health systems work hard every day to make care more cost-effective and efficient for their patients, at the same time that they are caring for the nation’s most complex and resource-intensive patients. This has been especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic as hospitals and health…
Lunch & Learn Series: How to Optimize Energy Costs, Reliability and Sustainability in Central Plants
Learn about plant optimization and the variety of approaches used for minimizing costs. Understand the steps towards an optimized plant. Hear a few use cases of recent Johnson Controls plant optimization projects.
Leaders at Henry Ford Health System connected clinicians with laboratory profes-sionals to make its laboratory utilization more evidence based.
Among the many emerging models of primary care from outside disruptors in the field, concierge medicine has been steadily gaining traction with patients. And over the past couple of years, a growing number of health systems have been partnering with One Medical, whose model has been linked to…
The mission of each and every hospital in America is to serve the health care needs of the people in its community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But, hospitals’ work is made more difficult by our fragmented health care system — a system that leaves millions of people unable to afford the…
The Centers for Medicare…
A recent report from RAND misses the mark on solutions to the cost of health care and draws its conclusions from the same recycled and incomplete studies.
Hospitals are doing their part to contain costs, as evidenced by the 1.9% increase in price growth per year on average over the last decade, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.