title: A model of efficiency.
abstract: Could your hospital survive on Medicare payments alone? That's a question some of the nation's leading health care systems are asking as they take a hard look at their operations and brace for tighter reimbursements from both public and private payers. Novant Health, for example, sharpened its benchmarking and launched an all-out assault on variation and inefficiency within its nine-hospital system.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weinstock
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D017046:Cost Savings / Q000379:methods; D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D014481:United States