Where Passion Meets Purpose: HFMA’s 2017-18 Chair Theme
Healthcare finance leaders are challenged to apply their knowledge and imaginations as stewards of their organizations to help transform health care to the benefit of patients and their families.
How to mix business and pleasure, Texas-style.
Robert Barbier pulled off more than a hat trick when his latest business venture was able to combine his love of family, football, new friends, and his beloved alma mater.
APCs: An Important Primary Care Resource for Value-Based Care
Health systems should look to advanced practice clinicians, including nurse practitioners and physician assistants, as qualified providers who can fill the gaps in primary care resulting from a declining supply of primary care physicians.
Hallmark Steering Committee Principles
One health system established clear rules of engagement and responsibilities for its steering committee charged with overseeing a performance improvement effort.
Hallmark In Brief
Hallmark Health System (Hallmark) is a two hospital system serving communities in the northern suburbs of Boston. It has outpatient facilities, physician practices, and community based services, including urgent care, home care, and hospice. Effective Jan. 1, 2017, Hallmark became
Closing the Loop by Selling Bad Debt
The increase of deductibles and self-pay accounts have hospitals and health systems looking at the sale of bad debt as a way to increase income.
Exploring Opportunities for Transforming a Healthcare Organization’s Cost Structure
On health system undertook a four-step process for performance improvement that involved developing organizational improvement targets and engaging division leaders to meet the targets at the division level.
Why Employers Should Appreciate and Leverage a Multi-Generational Workplace
Millennials and Gen-Xers are driving significant change in the workplace that many employees across all generations want, writes HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel, and employers are wise to capitalize on this trend.
The Challenge of Scale
The healthcare industry has reached the point at which one of its most pressing needs is to assess which innovative models are working and then scale them up, writes HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer.
Q&A: Exploring the Nuances of MACRA
Physician practices and other healthcare organizations should be aware of various nuances that will affect their performance in both the MIPS and advanced APM tracks of MACRA.