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National Healthcare Policy Effects |
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As 2009 unfolds, our nation and our industry are in a position never seen before. Health care is a huge and growing part of GDP, but uneven access and high costs practically beg for change. Under any conceivable scenario, we believe that greater value and will be demanded at every stage of health care delivery. It seems likely that the pricing of hospital services will likely be scrutinized by purchasers and the public. Pricing that is "reasonable and customary" or triangulated from peers and formulated to optimize income are likely to be seen as part of the problem. We believe that prices that are based on reality of what it costs are the right way to go, but most hospitals have some work to do before their costing is good enough to base prices on. The weakest link in most hospitals is the cost standards. Perhaps this is the reason we have begun to see increasing interest in refining cost accounting approaches and standards. We have continued to evolve and refine our cost accounting services to meet the needs of all hospitals, no matter where they are in the spectrum of cost accounting sophistication. Read more about our costing services in our Hospital Costing section. |
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Yardley Cost Standards Development |
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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. |
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Pathways Contract Management to TRENDSTAR Interface |
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This little know interface allows you to select cases for modleing from TRENDSTAR, sending them to PCON for revenue calculation. Benchmark tables are sent back to TRENDSTAR for use in reporting.
Yardley can assist you in putting this valuable interface to work. There is no better way to prove out how your contracts will behave than using real records in a known base population, containing cases that will trigger specific carve outs and other provisions. Yardley shows you how to operate the interface with or without an NFS drive. |
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