To bridge the gap between understanding costs and intelligently reducing them, you must analyze the full range of physician activities. Drawing on the experience of real-world examples...

Value-based care, consumerism, and the pressure to strengthen balance-sheets demand a new breed of healthcare finance leader. Read Kermit's thoughts on how healthcare CFOs can disrupt themselves.

Working with our implementation team, Valley View Health System experienced implementation done right. Read the report to learn how they improved reporting and budgeting processes.

Almost all hospital executives responding to a recent survey said that their organizations should be doing more to leverage financial and operational data to inform strategic decisions. Learn more.

Benchmarking is “comparing one’s business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies’." It’s a time-honored practice and adds value by...

Focusing higher-intensity costing methods on high-impact areas creates efficiency and ensures stakeholders that their time is being spent on efforts of value to the organization.

When it comes to evolving payment models, CFOs have an opportunity to revamp their playbook for strategic decision making—and drive big wins.

The challenges faced by hospitals and health systems on multiple fronts are significant and well documented. The business environment is exceedingly demanding for management teams as...

Many organizations have an opportunity to address a difficult-but-essential element of cost transformation: reducing inappropriate clinical variation. Hospital and health system...

Physicians recognize the need to use clinical data to identify clinical variation that adds cost without enhancing quality of care. At the same time, physicians need a high level of confidence in how data are gathered, analyzed, and deployed.

One of the biggest cost drivers in healthcare is inappropriate clinical variation. For organizations that can no longer cut their way to covering operation losses, addressing the...

Hospital and health system executives benefit from having processes in place that help ensure capital allocation decisions align with strategic goals.