More states are taking a closer look at healthcare costs.  Presently, there’s a growing concern over the allocation of healthcare resources towards benefiting the community. This heightened scrutiny has turned into a pressing community issue, sparking questions about the accountability … Continued

Healthcare services are slowly changing. Most recently, rising consumerism and new market trends have slowly ushered in an era of improved quality in healthcare services. Consumerism along with government intervention has been responsible for lowering costs of behavioral health and … Continued

Value based purchasing is a government mechanism designed to reduce healthcare costs. Value based purchasing reimbursement has been developed by the Federal government with the cooperation of 3rd party payors. Performance based programming under this type of reimbursement has been … Continued

Team Building is dependent on effective communications. One of the major keys to building a more effective Team is dependent on the working relationship between managers and staff. This critical communication process should include managers’ understanding the positive dynamics in … Continued

Time Management remains the operations’ most precious resource. Simple changes in managing healthcare treatment teams can make a difference. Simple changes including: setting agendas and limiting meeting times can improve organizational efficiency. Once a Team  understands the importance of time … Continued

Patient readmissions have become revolving doors in healthcare. One of the continuing problems with the quality of treatment services have been government concerns over the high numbers of patients failing to complete treatment. Many times after discharge, patients are re-admitted … Continued

The healthcare landscape is changing.  The healthcare scene will continue to do so as long as long as insurance-based reimbursement becomes the primary source of funding for behavioral health and addiction treatment. This is especially true whether providers receive the … Continued

Are you and the organization on digital time? Several times over the past year I’ve been asking myself whether organizations are maintaining leadership in their field? Are they adapting quickly enough to meet future global competition?  We’ve already seen 2022 … Continued

CEO flexibility around managing operational change is a problem Barriers to problem solving have been holding back health care managers from changing operations. Long held beliefs are barriers that have frequently eliminated management teams search for innovative solutions to problems. … Continued

By changing questions you can change the strategy. For many of us, the question often heard in the past was, what business are you in? During the dot com era of the ninety’s, widespread business technology change fostered the blurring … Continued