Katz Brunner Healthcare: Consulting, Analysis, Data, Negotiation

• Services Overview
• Consulting
• Analysis
• Data
• Negotiation

• “The survival of community hospitals is at a critical stage.
  KBH is committed to the effectiveness of rural and small urban hospitals that promote community-driven objectives.”
  —Alan S. Katz
  KBH President

• “Small community hospitals have many advantages over large metropolitan hospitals.. KBH emphasizes those positives when addressing managed care issues.”
  —Alan S. Katz
  KBH President

• “Practical answers for small community hospitals are often different than those for larger hospitals. KBH experience in rural and small urban hospitals is unique and vital to success.”
  —Alan S. Katz
  KBH President

• “Managed care follows macro-level blueprints written by bureaucrats, policy wonks & academia. KBH emphasizes practicality, results meeting community-driven objectives.”
  —Alan S. Katz
  KBH President

• “Future success in US healthcare will require application of community values to advances in technology and needs for cost-effectiveness. KBH advice strikes a delicate balance.”
  —Alan S. Katz
  KBH President

• “Managed care presents constantly changing scenarios and challenges. KBH effectively focuses attention on the most critical issues, managing the inherent ambiguity.”
  —Alan S. Katz
  KBH President

• “Claims denial management has become a critical, but costly function. KBH professionals' expertise results in greater effectiveness of appeals, and more timely, accurate payments. ”
  —Melinda Brunner
  KBH VP of Operations

• “MCOs often follow logic patterns that appear contrary to normal ways of thinking, then invent their own vocabulary to rationalize their actions. KBH effectively 'translates' between the hospital and the MCOs. ”
  —Melinda Brunner
  KBH VP of Operations

• “MCOs force hospitals to devote inordinate amounts of time on administrative tasks unrelated to quality patient care. KBH can effectively relieve hospital staff of costly tasks.”
  —Melinda Brunner
  KBH VP of Operations

• “Negotiation of managed care contracts requires a combination of astute skills and specialized knowledge. KBH has expertise in both negotiating and managed care.”
  —Melinda Brunner
  KBH VP of Operations

• “Data analysis is both a science and an art. KBH's unique skill set with both multiple large databases and managed care allows robust interpretation of available data.”
  —Melinda Brunner
  KBH VP of Operations

• “Small hospital executives need both a wide spectrum of expertise, and the time necessary to apply it. KBH can be the outsourced managed care department.”
  —Melinda Brunner
  KBH VP of Operations

KBH Data Services

In 2008, Katz Brunner Healthcare developed a corporate partnership relationship with Syntact Healthcare to broaden KBH client access to patient encounter data from both a national and local perspective. The combined resources provide KBH clients with the ability to compare their specific hospital with national or regional trends, and the ability to drill down into the data to target specific local individual providers and competitive markets.

Treading Water
in an Overwhelming
Sea of Data?

The typical national data warehouses offer a flood of information, page after page of endless numbers, without a guide for interpretation or identification of which numbers are critical to decision making. Surprisingly, the problem is often too much data with insufficient target directed analysis.

Access practical, useful data and Intuitive Applications™ software designed by Syntact Healthcare for informed managed care decisions.

Click the Syntact Healthcare logo below to connect directly with www.syntacthealthcare.com. Or, view the descriptions below of the applications adapted from previous KBH programs, now available with the Syntact Healthcare web based interface, i.e. Intuitive Applications™.

 

 

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Items currently available in most states include:

 

 

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