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3 Reasons Your Readmission Rates Are Too High

2017-04-02T13:28:39-04:00By BHM Marketing|Care Coordination, Clinical Operations Improvement, Readmissions|

Chances are, whether your on the administrative or clinical side of hospital operations, lowering readmission rates is high on your priority list. For administrators and financial officers, lowering the costs accrued from readmissions is paramount to staying under budget and for doctors and nurses, having patients prepared for life at home after discharge is the mark of truly community minded care. The patient-centered medical home purports medical decision making as an equal playing field; particularly when it comes to post-discharge measures of patient care.

Benefits of ACOs to Both Patients and Providers

2024-06-26T10:44:51-04:00By BHM Marketing|Care Coordination, Financial Analysis, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, PCHCH Accreditation, Physician Compensation, Quality Improvement Programs, Services|

Summary: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are gaining in popularity as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Have you considered the benefits of ACOs from both the patient and provider perspectives? One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to provide coordinated care which, in turn, increases quality and efficiency within the healthcare field, and reduces costs. ACOs – What is an ACO? ACOs are groups of providers which form an organization based upon the Medical Home (or PCMH) concept. The Medical Home places responsibility for the coordination of care with the primary physician. The primary care physician coordinates with other physicians and providers such as specialty physicians, laboratories and diagnostic imaging, providing a central point for the patient’s medical information.

Bundled Payments | Rewarding Quality and Value

2017-04-02T13:28:40-04:00By BHM Marketing|Care Coordination, Financial Analysis, Health Care Reform, Services|

Summary: The healthcare industry is transforming from fee-for-service to value-based payment systems. One of the fairly new forms of reimbursement to hit the streets is bundled payments. Overview of Bundled Payments The Medicare reimbursement system is in the process of transforming healthcare as we know it from a traditional fee-for-service model to a system that rewards based on quality, care coordination, accountability, and healthcare cost savings.

Patient-Centered Focus Increases Revenue

2017-04-02T13:28:41-04:00By BHM Marketing|Care Coordination, Financial, Medicare and Medicaid, Quality Improvement Programs, Readmissions, Services|

A patient-centered focus will provide optimal care for the patient which will in turn drive revenue. Do you remember the movie “Field of Dreams”? The basic premise was if you build a stadium they will come. We can adapt this adage to healthcare as well. So many organizations become so focused on the bottom line and don’t realize that if patients aren’t satisfied, they will not return to your facility, they will relay their bad experience to all of their friends, and you will lose revenue.

ACA Spurs Increase in Urgent Care Healthcare Providers

2017-04-02T13:28:45-04:00By BHM Marketing|Care Coordination, Clinical Operations Improvement, Health Care Reform, Readmissions, Services|

Are Urgent Care Healthcare Providers the Solution to an Overtaxed Healthcare System?

According to recent reports, pressures put on […]

The Drive for Healthcare Quality and Pay for Performance

2017-04-02T13:28:46-04:00By BHM Marketing|Accountable Care Organizations, Care Coordination, Clinical Analysis, Clinical Operations Improvement, Health Care Reform, Learning Series, Operational Analysis, Organizational Analysis, Quality Improvement Programs|

Obamacare may impact healthcare quality improvement initiatives

Can quality be legislated? Perhaps so. The Heritage […]

BHM Announces Peer Review System Enhancements

2017-04-02T13:28:46-04:00By BHM Marketing|Care Coordination, Clinical Analysis, Clinical Operations Improvement, Learning Series, News and Events|

BHM Healthcare Solutions, a healthcare consulting firm first introduced in August 2011 the Peer Review System (PRS) Portal, […]

10 Ways to Improve Patient Satisfaction

2017-04-02T13:28:47-04:00By BHM Marketing|Care Coordination, Clinical Operations Improvement, Financial, Learning Series, Operational Analysis, Organizational Analysis, Quality Improvement Programs, Uncategorized|

Patients are at the center of the medical practice, and with the emphasis on coding, billing, revenue, and all […]

Transitioning From Volume to Value and from Quantity to Quality

2024-06-26T10:34:42-04:00By BHM Marketing|Accountable Care Organizations, Care Coordination, Health Care Reform, Services|

The transitioning from volume to value and from quality to quality is at the moment a bit of a juggling act. Medicare continues to reimburse based on a fee-for-service basis which rewards based upon volume and quantity while simultaneously moving toward a payment system based upon value and quality. Two completely opposite ends of the spectrum trying to exist concurrently. Two different philosophies and mindsets with different goals are colliding