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We utilize extensive proprietary and public data sources to create fact-based, actionable plans to address specific client objectives.
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Monday, May 05, 2025
A Cleverley Response to The Price Transparency Executive Order
Some of our clients inquired as to how the recent transparency executive order might affect the current machine readable file template. While the executive order from February 25, 2025, titled “Empowering Patients Through Radical Price Transparency,” affirms this administration’s commitment to price transparency, it does not specify changes to the machine readable file template at this time.
It’s clear that this administrat...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
A Closer Look At Hospitals Costs with Our Founder, Bill Cleverley
I have been in the hospital industry as both a professor and consultant for 51 years. One thing that has never changed in these 51 years is that healthcare and hospitals in particular have been singled out for rising costs—which, translated, means that healthcare and hospitals are absorbing a greater percent of our nation’s Gross National Product (17.6%) in 2023.
I may be old, but I have heard about Artificial Intelligen...
Thursday, December 19, 2024
What Will Die Hard Cost John McClane?
Every year the question is presented— is Die Hard a Christmas movie, and every year two opposing camps form. The first strongly believes that it is, in fact, a Christmas movie, and the second one is wrong. But that’s not what we’re here to discuss today!
We’re here to discuss what the injuries John McClane sustained in Die Hard would cost for him and his local hospital. We here at Cleverley + Associates can’t weigh in on a dislocated shoulder, but we are ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Exploring the Relationship Between Quality and Cost in Hospital Data
CMS has recently released its 5-star hospital compare ratings with the distribution shown in Table 1. The ratings are based upon metrics in five areas: Mortality (22%), Safety (22%), Readmission (22%), Patient Experience (22%), and Timely and Effective Care (12%).
These quality metrics are important because Medicare does pay hospitals based on quality through several programs. These programs are part of an effort to improve ...