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Two leaders from hospitals that suffered losses from natural disasters share the steps they took to avert similar losses in the future.
How Texas Children’s Hospital’s patient-access initiative enhanced revenue opportunities
For Texas Children's Hospital, a key to capitalizing on patient revenue opportunities identified by its patient access initiative was to reduce losses that arose from out-of-network insurers.
The first five phone calls to make when disaster strikes
Hospitals facing an imminent disaster should make five calls to ensure it is fully prepared for the event's impact.
Improving the patient financial experience starts with us
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer discusses new legislative proposals related to consumerism in the context of HFMA’s best practices.
Trend suggests the nation’s largest hospitals should prepare for declining available revenues
The nation's largest short-term acute care hospitals have recently seen a rise in allowances and discounts that will underscore the need for them to contain and reduce costs.
5 tips for an effective internal collection process
Given the challenges long-term care and skilled nursing facilities face, these provides require an effective collection process.
Primary Care First Model holds promise but faces challenges
CMS's Primary Care First Model aims to create incentives for primary care physicians to take on risk under value-based payment, but whether it will be successful remains to be seen.
Fear Factor, HFMA style
HFMA's current Chair, Michael Allen, urges finance professionals not to shy away from fear and failure, but to embrace them and grow as a result.
What the numbers from PAC-improvement efforts show
Efforts to reduce spending on post-acute care have been shown to reduce variation in Medicare spending overall, while also reducing hospital readmissions.
Recommendations for improving utilization review and denial management to reduce LOS
The utilization review and denials management functions play an important role at each transition phase in the acute care process in helping hospitals reduce patients' length of stay in acute care.