Effectively financial management is an ongoing challenge for healthcare organizations, according to Dan Unger, General Manager and Senior Vice President of Financial Transformation Business at Health Catalyst. In this episode of Owning the Future of Healthcare, a Health Catalyst podcast, Unger discusses the criticality of an agile financial approach, competing with new innovative healthcare providers, and avoiding common financial pitfalls with costly consequences. Despite the increasingly competitive healthcare landscape—worsened by the pandemic—Unger says healthcare organizations can leverage data and activity-based costing to foster sustainable growth and long-term financial health.
“The traditional financial method is no longer viable to survive in today’s healthcare market.”
“It’s not enough to have canned reports on RVU costing; it is mission critical to understand the true cost of care.”
Financial leaders must understand their cost structure and make intelligent, strategic bets to keep up with new competitors.”
“The job of finance isn’t to deliver reports, it’s to help clinical and operational leaders make better decisions.”
