How To Use a Variable Labor Budget to Quickly Adjust Staffing To Match Volume
This Variable Labor Budget allows leadership teams, in partnership with front-line managers, to quickly adjust staffing as volumes fluctuate over…
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Medicare Margins Continue To Erode as Value-based Care Upends Traditional FFS Model
As Medicare margins continue to erode, one-time gains hospitals and health systems experienced as result of Medicaid expansion or private…
Kaiser Family Foundation Hospital Utilization per 1000 (2005-2017)
Click graphic below to see your state’s hospital admissions, ER visits, inpatient and outpatient days per 1000 population – and…
Here’s Why (and How) Practices Need to Engage Physicians Around Financials
Not engaging physicians around the financial aspects of their practice compromises the practices’ financial performance.
Demand-based Staffing: How to Set The Course w/ Initial Performance Goals
An Initial Performance Goal is a preliminary performance goal, the starting point for articulating expectations across departments.
The Real ROI From Team-based Care: Increased Panel Size
The single greatest measurable return on investment for team-based care is increased panel size. Sharing of responsibilities across an entire…
How Your Community Health Needs Assessment Can Drive Physician Recruitment & Compensation Arrangements
Your CHNA offers excellent opportunities for developing physician recruitment and compensation arrangements that meet fair-market value.
Stroudwater Associates Announces Executive Leadership Changes and Staff Promotions
Stroudwater Associates, a leading national healthcare consulting firm with offices in Atlanta, Nashville, and Portland, Maine, announced executive leadership changes,…
Lights, Camera, Telehealth! Episode 5: Private Payor Payment
With more than 200 million mobile devices at their fingertips at all times, patients increasingly expect some level of virtual…