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Benchmarking: Moving Beyond a Metrics Beauty Pageant

The true power of benchmarking entails studying how best practice organizations achieve their top performance levels and then takes those lessons learned and adapts them for use by other provider organizations.

HFMA February 23, 2018

MaineHealth Achieves Supply Chain Collaboration Among Member Hospitals

By identifying key supply chain opportunities and process flow issues that needed correction, MaineHealth saved approximately $16 million in 2015, the first year of its overhaul; $27 million in 2016; and more than $34 million in 2017.

HFMA February 23, 2018

Chinese Investment: An Opportunity for U.S. Healthcare Organizations

With a growing middle class and a desire for improved healthcare services, China is becoming a key investor in U.S. healthcare organizations, with the goal of bringing some of their practices and services back home.

HFMA February 23, 2018

Best Practices for Improving Patient Collections

This article highlights a white paper that analyzes the results of two recently fielded surveys about the current state of patient collections and emerging best practices to improve performance.

HFMA February 22, 2018

Administration’s Budget Proposals for Fiscal Year 2019

This summary provides highlights of the healthcare proposals included in the Trump Administration's fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget.

HFMA February 22, 2018

Ask the Experts: Service Line Analysis

What are the main steps in developing a productivity benchmark model for a service line? 

HFMA February 20, 2018

Ask the Experts: Medicare Adjustments During Appeals

Can we adjust a denied Medicare charge off of an account when an appeal is still open? 

HFMA February 16, 2018

Ask the Experts:  Denial Write-Offs

What is the best practice target for denial write-offs as a percent of net revenue? 

HFMA February 16, 2018

Ask the Experts:  Cash Payment Metrics 

Outside of the days cash on hand (DCOH) liquidity metric, what other cash or payment term metrics are useful? 

HFMA February 16, 2018

The Future of Healthcare Organizations Depends on Managing Medicare Costs

A healthcare thought leader explains the current Medicare payment system challenges and how CFOs can offset future Medicare cuts through cost containment.

HFMA February 15, 2018