Our Blog
5
Apr
A Rear View Mirror Look
How did we get here? Data during the pandemic shutdown is skewed. Millions of Americans were petrified of dying from COVID, so they stopped seeking treatment for disease or illness. The FDA warned people to shelter in-place if they contracted Covid, yet we now know we needed to seek treatment within the first 5 […]
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21
Nov
Does Pricing Still Matter?
Few hospitals have charge-based reimbursement contracts. Indeed, over 80% of payer contracts are negotiated fixed-fee reimbursement with the balance being shared-risk based on patient outcomes known as value. One recent analysis concluded it is virtually impossible to make more money in a value contract than fixed-fee reimbursement when service line payer mix is heavy on […]
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14
Nov
Why the Charge Master?
Pricing transparency is here, but has it made a difference in service line volume and ROI? Is there a way to make the charge master relevant again, grow sales, and increase ROI? The mandate for pricing transparency was based on the predicate that consumerism would do for health care what it has done for […]
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30
Sep
What’s in a Strategic Advisory?
Ideation, conceptualization, problem-solving, data modeling, and predictive analytics are key to our Strategic Advisory consulting. We provide a Strategic Advisory that converts challenge to opportunity. While many remain focused only on drilling-down to ‘the why’, we also review different strategies consistent with answering the other question, ‘why not’. Determining ‘the why’ is a hands-on intellectual […]
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10
Aug
Chief Strategies
Only problem solvers need apply, but each senior leadership team has different and unique needs. CFO’s are operational, involved in every major decision that determines operational sustainability in an environment where change is the norm and the pace is accelerating. The pandemic was an incubator of sorts, but it really was a high wire act […]
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31
May
Data-driven Insights
A recent study of hospital operating margins confirmed the importance of a new growth strategy to ensure fiscal sustainability and meet the needs of the population you serve. Capturing all data across the enterprise and making sense of the data you have is a must. You look for data-driven insights that are key to new […]
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16
May
Is there a sure road to success?
You know which service lines are strong revenue drivers, which ones are emerging as stronger drivers, and which services need to be strengthened. Precision data analytics confirms the value of your hospital’s book-of-business at any one time by distilling each revenue driver’s charge and payer data to a series of comparatives and summaries that measure […]
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27
Apr
The Great Reset
Hospitals performed well during the pandemic, innovating on-the-fly to solve new problems. This experience and mindset have changed how health care senior leadership makes decisions and how caregivers treat patients. Telehealth is here to stay and will be part of what some call Health Care 3.0, a build-out of virtual patient care that includes wearables […]
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1
Apr
The Language of Financial Strategies, Tools, and Solutions
Q4400 Financial speaks the language of financial strategies, tools, and solutions. We are a results-oriented, entrepreneurial financial consulting firm that crafts custom solutions for Pricing Strategies, the Charge Master, Financial Modeling, Analytics, and an Advisory. The challenges in today’s health care are significant. More disruptive change is headed our way, however industry change always brings […]
Read More
A Rear View Mirror Look
How did we get here? Data during the pandemic shutdown is skewed. Millions of Americans were petrified of dying from COVID, so they stopped seeking treatment for disease or illness. The FDA warned people to shelter in-place if they contracted Covid, yet we now know we needed to seek treatment within the first 5 […]
Read More
Does Pricing Still Matter?
Few hospitals have charge-based reimbursement contracts. Indeed, over 80% of payer contracts are negotiated fixed-fee reimbursement with the balance being shared-risk based on patient outcomes known as value. One recent analysis concluded it is virtually impossible to make more money in a value contract than fixed-fee reimbursement when service line payer mix is heavy on […]
Read More
Why the Charge Master?
Pricing transparency is here, but has it made a difference in service line volume and ROI? Is there a way to make the charge master relevant again, grow sales, and increase ROI? The mandate for pricing transparency was based on the predicate that consumerism would do for health care what it has done for […]
Read More
What’s in a Strategic Advisory?
Ideation, conceptualization, problem-solving, data modeling, and predictive analytics are key to our Strategic Advisory consulting. We provide a Strategic Advisory that converts challenge to opportunity. While many remain focused only on drilling-down to ‘the why’, we also review different strategies consistent with answering the other question, ‘why not’. Determining ‘the why’ is a hands-on intellectual […]
Read More
Chief Strategies
Only problem solvers need apply, but each senior leadership team has different and unique needs. CFO’s are operational, involved in every major decision that determines operational sustainability in an environment where change is the norm and the pace is accelerating. The pandemic was an incubator of sorts, but it really was a high wire act […]
Read More
Data-driven Insights
A recent study of hospital operating margins confirmed the importance of a new growth strategy to ensure fiscal sustainability and meet the needs of the population you serve. Capturing all data across the enterprise and making sense of the data you have is a must. You look for data-driven insights that are key to new […]
Read More
Is there a sure road to success?
You know which service lines are strong revenue drivers, which ones are emerging as stronger drivers, and which services need to be strengthened. Precision data analytics confirms the value of your hospital’s book-of-business at any one time by distilling each revenue driver’s charge and payer data to a series of comparatives and summaries that measure […]
Read More
The Great Reset
Hospitals performed well during the pandemic, innovating on-the-fly to solve new problems. This experience and mindset have changed how health care senior leadership makes decisions and how caregivers treat patients. Telehealth is here to stay and will be part of what some call Health Care 3.0, a build-out of virtual patient care that includes wearables […]
Read More
The Language of Financial Strategies, Tools, and Solutions
Q4400 Financial speaks the language of financial strategies, tools, and solutions. We are a results-oriented, entrepreneurial financial consulting firm that crafts custom solutions for Pricing Strategies, the Charge Master, Financial Modeling, Analytics, and an Advisory. The challenges in today’s health care are significant. More disruptive change is headed our way, however industry change always brings […]
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