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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?
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.
Care Navigators: A Mini Case Study
Care navigators facilitate hospital discharge and patient follow-ups with the goal of improved outcomes.
Rising At-Risk Populations
Almost 84 million people out of a total population of 400 million, will be covered by Medicaid or Medicare by 2050.
Flu Vaccine Helps Avoid More than 70,000 Hospitalizations
CDC estimates that if vaccination rates increased by just 5 percentage points across the entire population, another 6,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations could have been avoided.
Helping Emergency Department Clinicians Understand the Costs of Care
Finance leaders should collaborate with clinical leaders on clinician cost education so they have a greater awareness of room fees, nursing fees, and radiology fees needed to treat ED patients.
Sidebar: Protocol for Online Provider Reviews
At University of Utah Health, ratings are posted for providers for whom 30 patient satisfaction surveys have been returned in the past
HFMA Executive Survey: Value-Based Payment Readiness
HFMA researchers surveyed 117 senior financial executives about their organization’s value-based payment readiness in September 2017.
Video: GASB and FASB Updates
Brian Conner, partner for Moss Adams LLP, takes an in-depth look at GASB, FASB, and other accounting updates in health care.
Variations in Healthcare Prices
HFMA President and CEO Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, discusses what consumers know and don't know about variations in healthcare prices.