title: 10 ways to improve healthcare cost management.
abstract: As a healthcare CFO, you know that effective financial control has enormous impact on a hospital's bottom line. But how do you maintain that financial control? Well, a few simple improvements in cost management techniques-assigning accountability, adopting useful monitoring and reporting methods, and reducing resource consumption, among others--can reap significant benefits.
authors.affiliation: Healthcare Insights, LLC, Libertyville, Ill, USA. sberger@hcillc.com
authors.forename: Steven H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Berger
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting / Q000379:methods; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003361:Cost Allocation / Q000379:methods; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005375:Financial Audit; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012941:Social Responsibility; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000191:economics