4 Digital Principles Help Patients Understand Financial Responsibility
Providers can embrace the best practices and tools from the digital world to help consumers better understand and navigate their payment experience.
Keeping Up-To-Date on Shifting Medicaid Eligibility Laws
A government affairs expert shares strategies for keeping up with complex Medicaid rules and stay in compliance.
Launching Revenue Integrity Programs in Hospital-Owned Practices
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center’s revenue integrity program ensures a formal process to perform regular audits and educate physicians and their staff about compliance, and under-coding as well as over-coding.
Using Business Intelligence to Succeed in Value-Based Care
Gain buy in for value-based care by picking a few key areas to cost and monitor. A few easy wins builds momentum and confidence across a healthcare organization.
hfm Magazine: October 2018
The October 2018 edition of hfm explores people and culture in healthcare finance, focusing on performance improvement, academic-community relationships, and care delivery.
Bundled Episode “No-Go” Zone
Providers that are considering participating in bundled payment arrangements should first perform a preliminary review of factors that can have a bearing on their readiness for such arrangements.
A Game Changer? Potential Blockchain Applications in Health Care
Following the success of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, healthcare organizations are exploring how the blockchain technology behind those platforms could help solve some of the industry’s most vexing problems.
Change Management in Health Care: Navigating the Human Side of Successful Transitions
Employees are a healthcare organization’s most valuable asset. Strategic approaches can help an organization nurture this asset during potentially turbulent change.
Target Setting: A Case Example with Risk Adjustment
By considering risk as they set financial targets for physician groups under value-based payment contracts, provider organizations can more accurately assess the likelihood that physician groups might have favorable performance under the contracts.
From Our Sponsor
A cohort at HFMA’s Annual Conference examined various strategies for enhancing the patient financial experience.