4 bipartisan healthcare policy changes are likely in 2025
HFMA policy experts see a high likelihood for far-reaching changes in healthcare policy following the November elections, with a focus on four areas: site-neutral payments, prior authorization, the 340B Drug Pricing Program, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The elections could produce a range of outcomes for the presidency and control of Congress. However, strong bipartisan…
How PFC USA’s solutions can help boost revenue and patient satisfaction
Learn how to address challenges in the healthcare industry such as rising costs and strict regulations with advice on managing regulatory compliance and enhanced patient engagement, among other ways to lead organizations to success.
Texas chapter presidents join forces and shift focus
For just the second time in HFMA history, all three Chapters in the state of Texas have presidents who are women. (The first time was 2019-2020.) Not surprisingly, they plan to use the platform to advocate for and support female leaders. But that’s not all. They’ve also committed to changing the Texas culture from chapter-specific…
Marc Scher: Making the right moves forward for payer-provider collaboration
If innovation is key to moving forward as an industry and as an organization, so is the ability to nurture strong relationships. It’s a skill that is crucial to navigating payer-provider relations, where the stakes can mean the difference between a patient being able to access care locally and having to travel long distances for…
Susan Dentzer: It is time to move past denying the perfect storm facing U.S. healthcare
The healthcare sector is facing a perfect storm of aging patients, rising costs, aging providers, and a shortage of primary care physicians, creating a need to a shift toward preventive care, increased use of technology, more virtual and home care and sustainable care teams.
AI-guided clinical alignment can help avoid AI-driven denials
Read five critical components for a strategic approach to achieving AI-guided clinical alignment between payers and providers.
Offering a health and wellness credit card provides a patient-friendly payment option
Learn about a patient financing solution that helps reduce accounts receivable and provides financing options so patients can seek out the care they want or need.
Create more accurate cost reports faster with BESLER’s Easy Work Papers
A cost report is a critical reimbursement tool, but as much as 80% of it is repetitive. Check out this solution that is designed to help hospitals automatically complete the areas that repeat, so their staff has more time to focus on areas that have a real impact on the hospital’s revenue.
Jill Geisler: 10 questions for leaders who want to be better delegators
Ask managers how they’re doing these days, and you’re likely to get the universal answer: “Busy. Really busy.” Today’s leaders must navigate meetings, projects, personnel issues, paperwork, planning, hiring, coaching, strategizing — and putting out the inevitable fires. But when a well-meaning person says, “Maybe you could delegate a few things,” it can frustrate the…
David Johnson: 10 forces are combining to disrupt healthcare’s status quo
The U.S. healthcare system operates in much the same way it has for the past 100 years: always hospital-centric, physician-centric, disease-centric, treatment-centric and transaction-centric. Providers receive payment for the specific treatments they deliver. There is limited care coordination, little emphasis on prevention, inadequate provision of mental health services and woeful chronic disease management. The result…