hfm February 2022

Cost Effectiveness of Health Edition

Cover Story

‘A just cause’: HFMA’s CEoH initiative addresses the factors that impede quality of health and raise healthcare costs

Preventing the preventableis a phrase HFMA members likely will hear often in the year ahead as HFMA moves forward with a global effort to encourage the creation of efficiencies and processes that keep people healthy and reduce the costs of care and care management.

Features

Healthcare providers face a growing risk of violating debt covenants

COVID-19 has increased the financial strain on healthcare providers that puts them at risk of being noncompliant with lending covenants. They should be taking proactive steps now to avoid or mitigate the potentially severe adverse financial consequence of such an occurrence.

Read More

A checklist for successful hospital cost reporting in the time of COVID-19

COVID-19 will have long-term impacts on the operations of hospitals, and on their costs in particular., making it imperative that hospitals be mindful of how those impacts extend to their cost report data.

Read More

4 essential tactics for sustaining an independent community hospital

Independent community hospital face threats to their survival, and they need to take deliberate action to address those threats in order to continue to deliver essential care cost effectively to their communities. Leading community hospitals that are committed to remaining independent share the tactics they have adopted to ensure their independence is sustainable

Read More

Columns

Tammie Jackson: In healthcare finance, bold pursuits require persistence and curiosity

HFMA’s 2021-22 Chair says addressing health system challenges such as racial and ethnic disparities in quality of care and limited access to care among some populations due to social determinants of health requires boldness and persistence.

Read More

Paul Keckley: The healthcare regulatory climate for 2022 — What to expect

Hospitals, physicians and long-term care and ancillary service providers can anticipate significant changes in the regulatory climate in 2022. Although such changes are predictable, context is key: Regulatory policymaking in healthcare in the current environment is limited by disfunctional gridlock in Congress, the fact that 2022 is a mid-term election year and a high level of public anxiety about the economy and healthcare.

Read More

Jill Geisler: Resolve to give your team the gift of time (well spent)

Leaders are one of the greatest influences on work-life harmony. Jill Geisler shares how healthcare finance leaders can give their teams the gift of time well spent and create a culture where work-life harmony flourishes.

Read More

David Johnson: Cracks in the foundation — 5 structural defects are undermining nonprofit healthcare

The relentless organizational imperative under which nonprofit healthcare providers operate to optimize revenues under fee-for-service medicine has led to fragmented care delivery, unsustainable cost growth and severed connections with American consumers. Nonprofits should address five structural defects to their modus operandi that stand in the way of their delivering care empathetically and cost effectively to their patients.

Read More

Shawn Stack: No Surprises Act is important move toward meaningful consumer transparency

The No Surprises Act, which became effective on Jan. 1 of 2022, will clearly benefit patients, .ut its larger impact is yet to be seen as the industry awaits the release of provisions targeting health plans and payers.

Read More

Eric Jordahl: Preparing health system balance sheets for the journey to normalization

The Federal Reserve’s recent signal that it will transition to a tighter monetary policy is an indication that the organization and the economy have entered a new, more stable stage.

Read More

Reflections on the pandemic, year 3

HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer shares a perspective on ways to acknowledge healthcare’s frontline workers as the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic begins.

Read More

Departments

Success Awards presented at 2021 Annual Conference

Read More

Former HFMA National Board member Lisa Goldstein joins Kaufman Hall

Read More

News Briefs: Supreme Court ruling allows the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers to proceed

A roundup of top news stories for healthcare finance professionals.

Read More

Supplements

Survey: Health systems push toward risk-based payment models, payer-provider partnerships

Check out the key takeaways from a survey conducted in Summer 2021 with healthcare executives, which focused on risk-based models, data issues, leaders’ concerns on hitting budgets and more.

Read More

Enabling change requires organizational self-awareness

A company principal and leader breaks down successful organizational change management strategy factors, such as current culture, influencer networks and effective communication and education channels.

Read More

PMMC’s Estimator PRO increases pricing transparency and upfront collections

Looking to invest in software? One company uses a patient estimation system, which has resulted in enhanced productivity for more than 500 hospitals with an average 10 to 1 ROI.

Read More

SUBMIT AN ARTICLE

Manuscripts submissions are due three months in advance of the issue in which you want the article published.

Submit Article.

hfm Media Kit

Reach the most influential professionals in healthcare finance.

Reprints and PDFs

HFMA is pleased to offer reprints and PDFs of articles published in hfm and our other print and electronic publications.

hfm Magazine digital editions

Members can now access current and past issues of hfm on our new e-edition platform.

Download app to read on your device.

googletag.cmd.push( function () { googletag.display( 'hfma-gpt-leaderboard' ); } );