HomeAbout GPHAServicesUpcoming EventsHospitalsOur PeopleLOG IN Partnering with Community Hospitals Since 1950 Contact Us! 1-316-685-1523 Great Plains Health Alliance Blog Home | Blog Latest Posts Meet Mark Hoffman, GPHA Financial Services Mark Hoffman joined the Reimbursement and Financial Analysis Department in January. Although he’s new to GPHA’s Financial Services in Wichita, Hoffman has provided auditing and accounting services for GPHA hospitals for several years. Hoffman has more than 35 years’ experience as a Certified Public Accountant. He began his career in January 1978 with Fox and Company, which merged with Grant Thornton in 1985. In 2010, he joined BKD’s Wichita office when Grant Thornton sold its health care practice to BKD. Continue Reading Leave A Comment Posted by admin on July 18th, 2014 in GPHA Hospitals, Healthcare Improvement, Our People Healthcare – Treating People in a Fee-For-Service World Clinicians are funny people. In general they are very kind and caring individuals who have spent a good many years training for their professions. By the way, what is and is not a profession is somewhat of a grey area; you might not think everything is a profession, but each job can, and is, treated that way by the person doing it. These are professionals. Whether or not people regard the job as one of the “professions,” is a topic for another blog entry. Continue Reading Leave A Comment Posted by admin on June 5th, 2014 in GPHA Hospitals, Healthcare Improvement, Our People The Importance of Employee Evaluations For many managers, the (dreaded) annual review of employees is simply a formality and one of the negatives of being higher on the corporate ladder than someone. The standard procedure is straightforward: welcome them, serve them a warm compliment sandwich (with just a little spice to keep motivation high), and send them off with a perfunctory raise, or a set or arbitrary goals that may help them earn their raise the next time around. Problem solved, that 15 minutes of awkwardly having to point out performance issues; or stumbling over yourself to ensure they know you like them personally, it’s their work ethic you detest, is done and you don’t have to do it again for 12 entire months. Sweet relief. Continue Reading Leave A Comment Posted by admin on June 5th, 2014 in GPHA Hospitals, Healthcare Improvement, Our People, Reports GPHA Board Report Medicare Cost Reports: The 1040 Forms of Critical Access Hospitals This is the time of year that Eldon Schumacher and the GPHA reimbursement staff are very busy. The majority of GPHA hospitals end their fiscal year in December. This requires the hospital business office staff and GPHA staff to close the books, usually in February and March. Then the Independent Auditors arrive to perform their procedures. In the lastpart of April and throughout May, Eldon and his staff finish the cost report. Cost reports are due at the end of the fifthmonth following the end of the fiscal year. Continue Reading Leave A Comment Posted by admin on May 1st, 2014 in GPHA Hospitals, Our People, Reports Connect with GPHA! Subscribe to Blog Search the Blog Recent Posts Meet Mark Hoffman, GPHA Financial Services Healthcare – Treating People in a Fee-For-Service World The Importance of Employee Evaluations GPHA Board Report Categories GPHA Hospitals Healthcare Improvement Our People Reports Bookmark Blog Google Technorati RSS Feed Windows My Yahoo! Delicious Home Services Vendors Upcoming Events Hospitals About GPHA Contact Great Plains Health Alliance 250 N. Rock Rd, Ste 160 Wichita, KS 67206 Toll Free: 1-800-211-8028 Direct: 1-316-685-1523 © 2021 Great Plains Health Alliance, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Legal Information. Sitemap.