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H J Anderson

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PubMed1992

Hospitals and medical staffs: the concept of planning takes on new meaning.

Broad trends in health care are redefining medical staff planning. Hospital CEOs are recognizing the critical need to involve their physicians in hospital strategic planning at many levels. Gone are the days when it was sufficient to invite medical staff members to annual planning retreats and add individual physicians to boards; hospitals that thrive in the 1990s will be those that have created strong strategic links with their physicians. At the same time, medical staff development planning is changing in important ways. Recent federal government alerts on fraud and abuse and inurement in physician-recruiting activities are leading hospitals to document community benefit in their recruitment efforts. And hospital executives now realize that changes in the physician market will require them to plan carefully in order to ensure a strong base of primary care and other much-needed physicians. These two trends present CEOs with multilayered challenges. Following are reports on what leading-edge hospitals are doing in both areas.

Community-Institutional Relations↗
PubMed1992

The new finance department: CQI triggers big changes in role.

As hospitals implement total quality management and CQI programs and experiment with patient-centered care initiatives, financial officers are moving away from their traditional "bean-counter" role toward a broader role as part of a leadership team crafting a vision of the future.

Financial Management, Hospital↗
PubMed1992

Survey: equipment budgets up; use in outpatient areas growing.

Most hospitals increased their capital equipment budgets this year, finds a new survey sponsored by Hospitals and the Linc Group Inc. Rather than adding new services, hospitals are replacing equipment. But they remain cautious about adding new services, experts note.

Budgets↗
PubMed1992

Great comebacks: the 1992 turnaround contest winners.

Turning a hospital around takes hard work, determination, and guts. The winners of this year's Hospital Turn-around of the Year Contest, sponsored by Hospitals and Coopers & Lybrand, demonstrate that a successful turn-around is about much more than money, and that it can't be judged a success based solely on financial results. The management team of each winning hospital showed imagination and courage in tackling their hospitals' problems. Congratulations to this year's winners and finalists for a job well done.

Awards and Prizes↗
PubMed1992

CEOs: there's no simple cure for billing and pricing woes.

Hospital billing and pricing practices are drawing increasing heat from lawmakers, employers and consumers. In a four-part package, we explore various aspects of this issue. First, an overview. With public dissatisfaction growing, leaders on Capitol Hill are delving into hospital administrative costs and practices as never before. Second, the pricing controversy. Hospitals have three antidotes to the problem: streamline their charge structures, keep prices closely tied to costs, and explain the complexities of cost-shifting to businesses. Many hospitals are already moving forward on this. On page 29, the consumer angle. While a number of lawsuits in Florida have alleged overcharging by hospitals, Nevada has begun operating a new commission charged specifically with arbitrating patient billing disputes. On page 31, the receivables management story. Hospitals must carefully examine the efficiency of all their business office functions to make billing and collection improvements, experts say; relying on automation alone will not work.

Accounts Payable and Receivable↗