Improve Health Care Delivery
Improving patient safety and health quality outcomes, finding operational cost efficiencies, ensuring equitable payment for services and complying with regulatory guidelines are significant business challenges for hospitals, health systems and physician practices.
Our interdisciplinary consultant teams bring together significant capabilities to help hospitals, health systems and physician practices achieve their business objectives. We understand all aspects of the provider marketplace and apply experience as nurses, pharmacists, physicians, business executives and technology experts.
Solutions
Our consulting solutions can help you improve the effectiveness and quality of health care delivery and drive powerful business improvements.
Health Care Reform & Government Regulation
Understand the full impact and scope of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and ongoing federal efforts toward health care reform on your organization. Map out appropriate strategies to meet new requirements, receive financial incentives and funding, and deal with the continued challenge of cost pressures for publicly-financed and uninsured populations.
Services include:
- stimulus strategy including EHR implementation, e-prescribing, interoperability, quality reporting and affiliate strategy evaluation and definition
- financial and economic analysis of regulatory proposals
- government program payment adequacy/shortfall analysis
- recovery audit contractors (RAC) education, mock and shadow audits, appeals support and analytic reports
- ICD-10 / HIPAA 5010 transition preparedness
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IT Strategy, System Implementation & Optimization
Transform your processes, your systems and your business to achieve safety and efficiency.
Services include:
- extensive implementation expertise with the following vendor systems:
- IT assessments, strategy and governance
- vendor evaluation and system selection
- clinical system implementation
- process reengineering and system optimization
- system integration
- training and curriculum development
- testing and environments management
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Strategic Planning
Set corporate vision and your organization’s strategic agenda by evaluating the newest research, understanding the emerging medical technology trends and learning how hospitals and physician groups across the country and throughout the world are treating patients like yours and setting their business strategy and service line mix.
Services include:
- business strategy evaluation and development
- organizational governance
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Enterprise Information Management & Data Warehousing
Utilize multi-system hospital data along with industry benchmarks and payer data to measure and improve financial and clinical performance.
Services include:
- payer / hospital claims analytics
- payer connectivity
- enterprise information management and data warehousing
- data integration and decision support
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Clinical & Consumer Engagement
Leverage information and technology to enhance patient safety, improve physician relations and adherence to evidence-based medicine guidelines, engage patients, optimize clinical efficiency and contract with managed care.
Services include:
- evidence-based medicine / pay-for-performance analysis
- physician connectivity and engagement
- consumer connectivity and engagement
- quality assessments and never-event audits
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Revenue Cycle Optimization
Drive operational cost efficiencies by improving revenue cycle management, reimbursement and business process redesign.
Services include:
- coding and billing compliance
- ICD-10 transition preparedness
- revenue cycle optimization
- operating performance benchmarking and optimization
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Financial Advisory
Utilize information effectively to set financial strategy, manage department and service line profitability, manage operational costs, increase net revenue realization, define growth opportunities and comply with regulations.
Services include:
- financial strategy
- benchmarking and actuarial modeling
- capacity planning
- managed care contracting strategy development
- debt capacity analysis and financial projections
- enterprise-wide strategic plan and service line plan development
- community-based safety net strategy development and financing options
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Questions?
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