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 ...

Managed care began as a whisper in the original Medicaid statute, but over nearly six decades has evolved into a core feature of most state programs. In 2020, managed care accounted for 84 percent of ...