Ron Brank, a group vice president for Symbion in Nashville, Tenn., offers 10 points on using cost data for managed care contract negotiations. 1. Meaningful data is essential. In managed care contract ...

With the announcement of the nursing home minimum staffing rule, I asked myself the same question as operators nationwide: how on earth are we going to pay for this? Even if nursing homes could find ...

Contract negotiations adhere to a rule that 80 percent of time should be used to prepare for the negotiation and 20 percent to negotiate. To help be more effective in achieving results when you ...

Workforce shortages, regulatory complexities and economic challenges have put hospitals and health systems under immense pressure to improve operational efficiency, accelerate payments and reduce ...

Health care spending in 2019 reached $3.8 trillion, 17.7 percent of the gross domestic product in the United States. Likewise, employer-sponsored health insurance premiums — which cover about 157 ...

Significant changes to Florida's Medicaid managed-care system take effect this month, impacting millions of beneficiaries across the state. These changes include new contracts with health plans and a ...