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Value-Based Business Toolkits

Gather Data. Make Decisions. Pursue Opportunities

Adapt to the changing health care industry with our one-of-a-kind business management tools for pathology practices.

Our Value-Based Business Center's (VBBC) management solutions will help your pathology practice:

  • Gather Data: Better understand your practice and its market
  • Make Decisions: Decide which opportunities to pursue
  • Pursue Opportunities: Understand, document, and negotiate value

Gather Data

Billing Assessment Tool – Assess and monitor your practice's billing and collection operations

Tool Lock (PDF)       
Evaluation Form Lock (Word)
Billing Assessment Workbook Lock (Excel)		 Bite-Size Webinars:        
Essential Financial Metrics       
5 Critical Revenue Cycle Metrics  
Are Send Out Tests Hurting Your Bottom Line?

Cost Analysis – Identifying, analyzing and controlling the various components driving costs.

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Evaluation Form Lock (Word)
Survey Results Workbook Lock  (Excel)		 Bite-Size Webinars: 
Essential Financial Metrics
Are Send Out Tests Hurting Your Bottom Line?
6 Steps to Determine Your Cost Per Test

Practice Self Awareness – Insight into how your pathologists view your practice and its future

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Pathologists & Leaders Survey Lock  (Word)
Meeting Agenda Example Lock  (Word)
Survey Results Workbook Lock  (Excel)
Evaluation Form Lock  (Word)		 Bite-Size Webinars:
Assess Your Practice

Practice Assessment – A more detailed look at competencies, capabilities, and capacity

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Workbook Lock  (Excel)
Evaluation Form Lock  (Word)
Appendix 1 Background Survey Lock  (Word)
Appendix 2 Competency Survey Lock  (Word)		 Bite-Size Webinars: 
Strategic Relationships - A Survey of Your Vital Assets

Market Awareness – Gather information on your current clients' plans and perceptions of your practice

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Client Survey Lock  (Word)
Project Planner Workbook 4 Lock  (Excel)		Compile Responses Workbook Lock  (Excel)
Meeting Agenda Example Lock  (Word)
Evaluation Form Lock  (Word)

Market Assessment – Identification and analysis of current clients and market opportunities

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Current Clients Workbook Lock  (Excel)		Opportunities Workbook Lock  (Excel)
Evaluation Form Lock  (Word)

Pursue Opportunities

Got Value? – A pathologists' value opportunities conceptual narrative

Narrative Lock  (PDF)

Value Impact Analysis – Measuring the value impact and planning a health care improvement project

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Workbook Lock  (Excel)		Project Planner Workbook Lock  (Excel)
Evaluation Form Lock  (Word)

Demonstrate Your Value

Create intriguing annual reports that communicate your true value.

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Checklist Lock  (PDF)
Data Collection Tips Lock  (PDF)		Webinar:
Get What You Want from Administration and Clients with Compelling Annual Reports

Bite-Size Webinars

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