Financial Oversight

Trustee Talking Points Trustee Talking Points Many health systems are operating venture funds or other formal mechanisms for developing and commercializing innovations. Their motivations for developing innovations are to improve their own operations and create new…
Snapshot Preparing for a value-based health care environment is daunting at a time when fee-for-service payments still predominate. But boards can take steps now to help hospitals thrive today and in the future. Hospital boards and C-suite executives have a major strategic…
The U.S. health care field is moving in a new direction — toward population health. The alignment of expanded access to care with the adoption of value-based reimbursement models has primed health care for unprecedented transformation. Succeeding in this new environment…
Snapshot A series of high-profile breaches underscored the vulnerability of online records and the ability of cyber-criminals to quickly adapt their tactics. Providers and vendors are intensifying efforts to protect data from prying eyes.  
Fundraising at U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals increased more than 7 percent in 2014, continuing a recovery trend from the low-giving years of the recession, according to a survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The 2014 Annual Development Survey analyzed…
It’s rare that multiple surveys tell the same story. But several recent surveys have come to the same conclusion: The number of uninsured individuals in the United States has declined dramatically in just two years.
A recent survey from the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center found that fewer adults younger than 65 reported problems paying family medical bills than they did in September 2013. In 2013, just before the first health insurance marketplace open enrollment period under the…
The two other most common payment models are Medicaid contracts with states or through a Medicaid health plan (60 percent) and direct contractual relationships with employers (24 percent), according to the American Hospital Association’s 2014 Survey of Care Systems and Payment.
Charitable donations of $358.38 billion in 2014 represent an increase of 7.1 percent in current dollars and 5.4 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars more than the $339.94 billion that Americans donated in 2013, according to the Giving Institute’s Giving USA 2015 annual report…
SNAPSHOT Hospital and system leaders say that they are acclimating to the transformed health care environment, but risk-based contracts, pressure to grow and regulatory scrutiny continue to buffet their organizations. Over breakfast, a small group of hospital and health system…