Michigan Benchmarking Group
The group uses the CAH Analytics Solution, developed by Eide Bailly in collaboration with MCRH, to help Michigan Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) improve productivity and clinic workflow. This solution allows hospital leaders to easily access benchmarking data, visualize key performance indicators, and make informed decisions based on real-time insights.
CAH Analytics Solution – Demo with 3 pilot Michigan CAHs - Video
CFO Financial and Operational Benchmarking Webinar - Video
CFO/Finance Annual Spring and Fall meetings - 2025 Dates Coming Soon!
MI FLEX Program
The Michigan Center for Rural Health provided financial and operational resources as a part of the the MI FLEX Program to Critical Access Hospitals across Michigan.
Lean Projects
Departntal projects focusing on using lean concepts and tools to understand the current state, identify and eliminate the waste, and develop a future state.
Lean Green Belt Training
Practical Lean Manager Training – a comprehensive leader development program. Participants learn the process and techniques of establishing and sustaining operational excellence and overall continuous improvement.
Revenue Cycle
Avoid delayed and/or lost revenue
Performance Improvement Collective (PIC)
The healthcare industry has long been siloed between quality and finance which has led to operational inefficiencies, negative outcomes, and poor financial performance. These have often been siloed into a Revenue Cycle Committee and Quality Improvement Committee. Top performing CAHs have realized that quality has a direct impact on financial performance and financial performance has a direct impact on quality initiatives.This engagement focuses on breaking down the barriers between finance and quality by establishing a single performance improvement collective (PIC) to drive financial and operational performance.
Resources
The Flex Program | Flex Monitoring Team
FMT work focuses on three main topic areas for rural communities: quality improvement, financial and operational improvement, and community engagement. FMT conducts analyses evaluating the Flex Program, collects and tracks state-level CAH data, maintains a national listing of CAHs, and maintains and updates the CAHMPAS database, an online data query tool used to explore the financial, quality, and community-benefit performance of CAHs.
Support – CAHMPAS – Flex Monitoring Team
The link above provides a guide & tutorial, definitions, and FAQs of FMTs tools available
Michigan: Performance on selected Financial Indicators compared to national benchmarks.
RHIhub
Provides a wealth of information, opportunities, and resources on rural health. RHIhub strives to help improve rural healthcare services and population health.
https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources
The National Rural Health Association is a nonprofit membership organization that gathers members from across the country. Their mission is to lead on rural health issues through advocacy, communication, education, and research.
Hospital Price Transparency Resources
- Hospital Price Transparency Resources
- Hospital Price Transparency Fact Sheet
- Hospital Price Transparency: What Hospitals Need to Know - RHIhub Webinar (ruralhealthinfo.org)
CMS Final Rule
Each year the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) release updates to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems (OPPS) final rules. The final rules, update the payment policies and payment rates for the current fiscal year.
Current Year IPPS Final Rule CY 2025
Current Year OPPS Final Rule
- CY 2024 OPP Final Rule - new link to come at the end of the month for 2025
For More Information Contact
Jeff Nagy
Quality Improvement Advisor
Michigan Center for Rural Health
(517)-884-8641
Jeff.Nagy@affiliate.msu.edu