Rich Daly

About the Author

Rich Daly

HFMA Senior Editor

Location: Downers Grove, IL

Rich Daly is senior editor, policy affairs with HFMA, based in Alabama. His healthcare policy and finance reporting experience includes staff writer positions with Modern Healthcare and Congressional Quarterly (both focused on healthcare regulatory and legislative developments); editor-in-chief of 340B Report (the only news outlet focused on daily policy, legal, and business developments in the 340B program); and serving as a content director for Sg2/Vizient Inc (producing reports on financial pain points and solutions for health systems). He previously covered daily news for HFMA and wrote features for Healthcare Financial Management magazine, where his recognitions included the Stephen Barr Award (the only individual achievement award) from the American Society of Business Publication Editors.

Latest Work

ZDoggMD: How to get to healthcare 3.0

Motivational healthcare speaker urges changes to encourage and allow providers to engage emotionally with patients and drive real change.

Rich Daly June 25, 2019

3 details for healthcare providers to know before taking on risk

Providers looking to take on downside ACO risk need to first understand three determinants of success.

Rich Daly June 25, 2019

Little progress seen in mitigating prior-authorization challenges

Prior-authorization challenges appear to be worsening for providers, despite a 2018 payer-provider effort to address such problems.

Rich Daly June 23, 2019

What’s the blueprint for taking on risk?

Providers and health plans need to collaborate — both in the planning and execution of risk-based contracts — in order to make them work.

Rich Daly June 23, 2019

Providers press CMS for details amid lingering uncertainty about new primary care models

The possibility of conflicts between Medicare payment models joined the customary concern about benchmarking details in provider feedback on coming primary care models, an administration official said.

Rich Daly June 20, 2019

CMS identifies keys to success in bundled payment as BPCI-A deadline looms

Ahead of next week’s deadline for providers to join the largest voluntary bundled payment program, the agency in charge of the program identified lessons learned from successful participants.

Rich Daly June 19, 2019

Four key takeaways from Congress’s latest single-payer hearing

Although the first hearing by a healthcare committee on recent coverage expansion proposals was supposed to encompass a range of Democratic bills, national single-payer proposals garnered almost all the attention.

Rich Daly June 19, 2019

Providers push arbitration approaches used in some state surprise-bill laws

What should Congress learn from states’ experiences with laws attempting to curtail surprise healthcare bills?

Rich Daly June 13, 2019

Medicare Advantage plans accelerating their move into SDOH, advocate says

Medicare health plans have increasing authority to grapple with the social determinants of health, and more are pursuing such initiatives.

Rich Daly June 12, 2019

Timing, details unclear for executive order on price transparency

An expected executive order on healthcare price transparency continues to change, even as its release has been delayed, say policy watchers.

Rich Daly June 11, 2019