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Pulse Magazine Spring 2012

Three health system executives discuss the future of healthcare in this issue of Pulse Healthcare Magazine. In a rapidly-changing industry, multidisciplinary teams must work together to deliver health care collaboratively and cost-effectively.

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Budget Planning Under Payment Reform

Healthcare reform makes budgeting top-line reimbursement, volume, payer mix, and collections more difficult than in the past. Michael Nugent advises providers and healthcare finance executives on how to overcome the challenges of budgeting for top-line growth in a post-reform environment.

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Accountable Care Organizations

Accountable Care Organizations, authored by Dr. Marc Bard and Mike Nugent, will help you understand the ACO framework and assess your readiness to embark on an ACO strategy.

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Healthcare Perspectives

Developing Healthcare Facilities for a Changing Environment

Click here to learn what healthcare leaders should do when approaching facility and real estate development.

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Webinar Replay: Patient Health Information Data Breach

Navigant and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman recently hosted a two-part webinar series on the prevention, planning and response to a patient health information data breach incident.

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Physician Acquisition: What to Avoid After the Deal is Complete

Read “Physician Acquisition: What to Avoid After the Deal is complete”, an hfm Magazine article authored by Navigant Healthcare’s Mark Driscoll and Anthony Long.

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Children’s Hospitals and the Changing Healthcare Environment

This white paper discusses today’s environment of children’s hospitals and the impact of state and federal healthcare reform.

 Article / White Paper
A Pivotal Year for Medical Loss Ratio

In this article for the American Health Lawyer’s Association (AHLA) Payors Plans & Managed Care Newsletter, Melissa Hulke and Ernest Dixon discuss the complexities of Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) regulations and potential reporting, regulatory oversight, and litigation issues.

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Exchange Deadline Creeps Closer

Navigant Healthcare’s Cristine Vogel cited in a Healthcare IT News article titled, “Exchange Deadline Creeps Closer, Supreme Court Decision on Obama Mandate a Factor”.

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Health Benefit Exchanges: Preparation for Hospitals

This white paper discusses how Exchanges impact hospitals and other providers as well as the broader healthcare system.

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Loss of Exclusivity Road Map

This case study reviews Navigant's Strategy Consulting for a Life Science Company.

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Pulse Magazine Signup

Provides insights and guidance for physicians and health systems experiencing turbulent change resulting from healthcare transformation. Topics covered include accountable care, healthcare reform and physician-hospital alignment.

Healthcare Publications

Navigant Pulse Spring 2012: Insights on a High-Value Future

In this issue of Pulse Magazine, authors suggests approaches for convincing stakeholders of the need for change to pay-for-performance while still living in a fee-for-service world.

Experts

Marc A. Bard, M.D.

Dr. Bard is Chief Innovation Officer in Navigant's Healthcare practice, and a nationally regarded expert on physician leadership effectiveness, change management, and organizational design. He consults with leading academic medical centers, faculty practices, medical groups, community hospitals, and individual healthcare executives.

David Burik

Mr. Burik is a Managing Director in the Healthcare practice, and has 30+ years experience within all segments of the health care industry, focusing on the strategy segment.

H. Alex Hunter

Managing Director in the Healthcare practice with expertise focused on design, development, and implementation of physician/hospital alignment at the strategic, financial, and operational level.

Michael Nugent

Michael Nugent is a Managing Director in the Healthcare practice and leader of Navigant's Managed Care Pricing team. He is a nationally recognized expert in the area of pricing, managed care contracting strategy, and revenue cycle innovations.

David P. Zito

Managing Director and leader of the Healthcare practice. He works with integrated healthcare systems, teaching institutions, and medical centers.

Healthcare News

Five Guidelines for Successful Practice Acquisitions

Before finalizing a physician practice purchase, hospitals must address key strategic, financial, operational, legal, and regulatory ramifications.

The Fundamentals of Physician – Hospital Integration

Summary: Physician - hospital practice integration can enhance mutual performance, competitive position and financial stability, but only with proper planning and development.

Integration is Not Alignment: A Sustainable Healthcare Model

Making hospital-physician alignment work requires a cultural shift among participants from an independent to an institutional perspective.