DOTmed March 27, 2020
Kermit S. Randa, Kaufman Hall

We have better tools than ever in healthcare to advance care and improve access. But legacy healthcare organizations still have not mastered a critical competency: eliminating waste. A recent study shows that 30% of healthcare spending is wasteful, at a cost of $760 billion to $935 billion.

The need to reduce costs is high on healthcare leaders’ radars. A new Kaufman Hall report shows that the ability to identify and manage cost-reduction initiatives is healthcare finance executives’ top priority for 2020, but they struggle to act on opportunities:

• More than half of healthcare finance executives say they don’t have the tools to lower costs in the right areas without compromising quality.

• Cost accounting systems often fail...

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