JHC Contracting Professional of the Year
Christopher Fontana, JHC’s Contracting Professional of the Year, builds trust with his health system’s clinicians in the journey toward cost reduction and product improvement By…
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The Long and Winding Road to Interoperability
“Care continuum” has a nice ring to it. But the term doesn’t mean much unless acute-care and non-acute-care providers coordinate their patient-care activities. And that’s…
VHA/UHC and MedAssets
The reasons behind the VHA/UHC decision to acquire the group purchasing and clinical resource management arms of MedAssets Scale matters, right? More members, greater volume,…
ICD-10 Arrives
What the conversion to ICD-10 means for providers and healthcare stakeholders As hospitals, physicians, skilled nursing facilities and others faced the Oct. 1 deadline to…
Purchased services: A strategic approach
The key to successful purchased services contracting can be summed up in two simple words: Think. Strategically. “I talk with healthcare executives all across the…
The Value Analysis Equation
For supply chain executives, one equation can help them navigate through many of their challenges: Data (generated through evaluations, unbiased studies, etc.), plus Patience (so…
Ten People to Watch
Welcome to the Journal of Healthcare Contracting’s annual listing of the Ten People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting, each of whom was selected based off…
What does it mean to be an urgent care center in an IDN?
Integrated health systems are in a unique position to capitalize on the opportunities in the urgent care market … if they can recognize them, says…
Physicians’ issues are IDNs’ issues too
Editor’s note: As IDNs continue to acquire physician practices, they find themselves sharing responsibility for meeting a new set of challenges, including new payment models,…
Implant Strategies for Today
IDNs and vendors agree: Standardization is no longer enough Medical innovation is part of the lifeblood of American medicine. But differentiating truly innovative medical technologies…