Under current fee-for-service payment model, healthcare providers face financial pressures, which are further exacerbated by payment denials and delays. Read this article understand the denial types and causes, and to learn about a disciplined, data-driven and team-based approach to reduce denials.

If you are a hospital administrator or a hospitalist leader, you most likely have an early discharge measure included in your hospitalist team performance scorecard. Despite its prevalence in judging hospitalist team performance, I find this measure to be the most misunderstood and misused. So, before you include an early discharge measure in your scorecard, take time to understand it.

Do you want to solve your hospital’s length of stay (LOS) problems? The key to successful and sustainable improvement is using a disciplined step-by-step approach. Read this article to learn the approach that has been used across more than 100 projects focused on improving clinical quality, cost and operational efficiency.

Before you jump into the implementation phase, take time to plan your project.  While even well-planned projects may not succeed, poorly planned and executed projects are destined to fail. Here are 5 ground rules for planning a winning healthcare improvement project.