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11/1/2008
Guaranteed Signs That Your Revenue Cycle Process is Failing
Eight warning signs to watch out for in your revenue cycle process to ensure it is not failing.
10/7/2008
Common Technology Deployment Issues and Strategies to Increase Success
Common technology implementation issues and strategies to increase project outcomes.
8/1/2008
Capital Improvement Financing Options: A Market Update
When preparing to access funds in the capital market for replacement or significant renovation, risks, costs, and limitations of various financing options should be carefully considered.
5/27/2008
To ROTH or Not to ROTH Your 401(k)
5/1/2008
Transparent Pricing in Health Care: Are You Ready?
A new approach to cost modeling builds on activity-based costing while avoiding ABC's pitfalls.
4/1/2008
Internal Control Measures for Smaller Clinics
Simple internal control practices can significantly reduce vulnerability to office embezzlements.
3/1/2008
Dialoguing to Get Results
Learn to effectively hold conversations that involve high stakes, opposing viewpoints, and strong emotions.
2/6/2008
New E-mail Scam Targets Exempt Organizations
2/5/2008
Bush Budget Cuts Target Medicare, Medicaid
2/1/2008
Family Care 101: A New Era in Managed Long-Term Care
This article begins a two-part series on Family Care with information for providers who must decide whether or not to contract with Family Care/MCOs.
1/1/2008
Health Care Trends and Issues for 2008
What does 2008 hold for the health care industry? Wipfli’s Health Care practice takes its annual look ahead.
12/1/2007
By Design or By Default: Your Culture Is in Your Hands
Here's how the overarching principle of leadership relates to culture and the elements to consider when shaping your organization's culture.
11/1/2007
Why Do We Need Enterprise Risk Management?
When done effectively, enterprise risk management will reap benefits for your organization with every pitfall and surprise it helps avoid.
10/1/2007
Physician-Hospital Integration: The Consolidation Continues . . .
Discover what is driving the latest wave of merger-acquisitions and how both medical groups and hospitals can achieve the desired market alignment.
9/1/2007
Finding the Perfect Grant
Here are some tips for helping your organization gain access to thousands of available federal and foundation grant programs.
8/1/2007
Physician Incentive Programs to Broaden Rewards
This article explores options for expanding the physician income distribution formula in all types of medical practices.
7/1/2007
Preparing for a Capital Financing Project: A Checklist
Before your health care organization commits to any major capital improvement project, make sure you’ve completed these 10 key tasks.
6/1/2007
Understanding Strategic Risks
How well can your health care organization’s strategic plan weather the unexpected?
5/1/2007
Health Care Leadership - Creating Synergy at the Top
Here are four things that the board and CEO can do to build a more effective governance management team.
4/11/2007
Lean Six Sigma for Health Care Providers
Lean Six Sigma offers a sustainable approach to continous improvement in patient satisfaction, quality of care, and other important benchmarks.
4/1/2007
Joint Expansion Efforts: A Road Map for Success
Hospital growth often takes the form of “joint ventures” with physicians. Here are some strategies to ensure successful outcomes.
3/14/2007
The Strategic/Business Case for a Community-Based Integrated Health Delivery System
Explore the driving forces behind the increasing number of community-based health delivery system integrations and their optimal design.
3/1/2007
Using the 5S Lean Tool for Health Care
Lean is a problem-solving approach for continuous improvement – and the 5S tool is of value in health care settings.
2/1/2007
Focus on Revenue Cycle Improvements
By fixing errors and gaps in front-end processing, health care organizations can reap major cash-flow benefits on the back end.
1/1/2007
Health Care Trends and Issues for 2007
What does the new year hold for the health care industry? Wipfli’s health care professionals take their annual look ahead.
12/1/2006
A Diagnostic Checkup for Your Balanced Scorecard
Your health care organization has a balanced scorecard—but is it working? If you’re unsure, it’s time for an examination.
12/1/2006
Building a Brand in Health Care Services
Brand-building efforts should focus on attributes that matter most to health care consumers: quality, value, access, service scope, and safety.
11/1/2006
Conducting Competitive Market Research
To gain useful decision-making information about your competitors, consider a mix of primary and secondary research methods.
10/1/2006
Creating Synergy between Management and the Board
Building highly effective board and management teams requires clear role delineation as well as a willingness to build synergistic bridges.
9/1/2006
Balanced Scorecard Rx
Balanced scorecard ailments can easily be cured—and the first step is a diagnostic checkup.
9/1/2006
Who’s Your Competition?
To perform an effective competitor analysis, here are five key questions you need to answer.
8/1/2006
Marketing for the Rural Care Provider
Getting more patients through your doors requires some careful thinking – and a strategic marketing plan.
7/1/2006
Balanced Scorecards: Leverage the Learning and Growth Perspective
Scorecards that lack detailed “learning and growth” measures may be missing out on some of the highest-ROI opportunities for improvement.
7/1/2006
CobiT: A Framework for IT Governance
By implementing CobiT, health care organizations can improve IT alignment, efficiency and transparency, while identifying and managing risks.
6/1/2006
Improving Your Health System’s Physician Practices
Good management of physician-practice revenue requires an infrastructure that addresses the differences between hospital and physician practices.
5/1/2006
Benchmarking and Performance Measurement
This article explores how these popular improvement tools work together -- and how internal benchmarks stack up against external ones.
5/1/2006
Financial Planners for Health Care Professionals
If you’re too busy to plan your financial future, you need an advisor -- now. Here’s how to find one.
4/1/2006
Applying Lean Thinking Principles to Health Care
Providers that strive to provide safe, high-quality care at reasonable costs should consider proven performance-management principles used by manufacturers.
4/1/2006
IRS Focuses on Executive Compensation
In this article — which is part one of a series about executive compensation issues — we’ll discuss a particularly sticky compensation issue: excess benefit transactions.
3/1/2006
Improving Nurse Effectiveness: Look Before You Leap
When it comes to nursing care, hospitals must resist simple-sounding solutions and find smarter ways to do more with less.
2/1/2006
E-Filing Now Required for Large Health Care Organizations
Beginning this year, the IRS will require many tax-exempt organizations to electronically file their returns or face steep penalties.
2/1/2006
Strategic Planning: Making It Stick
Workable strategic plans must involve three phases: Strategic positioning assessment, plan development, and plan implementation, measurement, and evaluation.
1/3/2006
Five Basic Steps to a Disaster Recovery Plan
If your organization hasn’t planned for the worst, you’re not alone -- but that’s no excuse to avoid it any longer.
1/1/2006
Beating the Balanced Scorecard Blues
Not getting the expected benefit from BSC? You’re not alone. Here’s a guide to troubleshooting your scorecard -- and fixing it.
12/1/2005
Health Care Trends and Predictions for 2006
Wipfli’s health care professionals preview the most significant issues and events for the coming year.
11/1/2005
HSAs: New Challenges for Provider Revenues
High-deductible health plans and tax-free Health Savings Accounts are slowly catching on. Here’s what it all means for your business.
10/1/2005
RN Utilization: A Matter of Structure-Environment Fit
As the percentage of registered nurses with associate degrees increases, providers must examine their organizational structure to maximize staff potential.
9/1/2005
Changing Times for Retirement Plans
Defined-benefit plans are increasingly popular among health care providers and others -- but new regulations and trends demand careful scrutiny.
8/1/2005
Strategy Maps: Critical Tools for Follow-through
By showing business strategies in an easy-to-understand visual format, strategy maps can sustain their execution through all kinds of distractions.
7/1/2005
The Benefits of a Good Investment Policy Statement
When formulating an IPS, it pays to produce a high-quality plan that goes beyond the basic requirements.
6/1/2005