Happy New Year!  2009 brings with it the likelihood of healthcare policy change.  No matter what form change may take, it seems likely that hospital prices will be be receiving attention.  It may not be enough to say that your rates are based on peer or regional rates, if everyone's rates are deemed to be unacceptable.  Basing rates on actual costs is one sure say to create rates that can stand up to public scrutiny.  Furthermore, your cost data will be more credible for all of its other valuable uses.

Many TRENDSTAR and HPM customers have been content to base their service item allocations on prices.   Obviously, basing prices on costs that are based on old prices is not going to work.  Many others who have more detailed standards seldom get around to revising them.  Fresh, new standards are what you need, but how can you get them in a way that is reasonable to set up and maintain?  Yardley has a solution for you.