Patient financial responsibility for COVID-19 treatment: let’s get it right
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer addresses issues related to the patient financial experience — and journalists who are covering it —during the COVID-19 pandemic.
5 ways hospitals should prepare to access COVID-19 disaster funding
The nation's hospitals should not delay in taking steps to track and document additional costs and revenue losses associated with COVID-19 cases, which will be necessary to obtain timely access to relief authorized under the CARES Act .
Introducing a tool for improving the patient financial experience
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer suggests that the patient financial experience can be improved by taking a page from the Disney playbook..
HFMA’s Western Region Symposium provides education on customer financial experience and the revenue cycle
HFMA Regions 10 and 11 combined efforts to host the annual Western Regional Symposium, which included a well-attended revenue cycle breakout session, with a focus on the patient financial experience.
Survey: Providers have work to do on the journey to value
An HFMA survey sponsored by GHX found that the more revenue a healthcare organization has at risk in value-based contracts, the greater its capabilities for managing risk.
Employment transitions: Where have some HFMA members landed new jobs?
Several HFMA members across the nation share their latest job updates with either new roles or promotions.
Hospitals and physician practices generally achieve ‘moderately effective’ use of cost data, according to a survey, which also identified more effective approaches
Although many healthcare organizations say they have achieved middling results in their cost accounting efforts, that could improve through widespread adoption of approaches identified as most effective.
Women in leadership: How 6 senior leaders are breaking down barriers
A roundtable of women executive leaders examines the difficulties women face in attaining senior leadership positions and discusses key strategies to overcoming these barriers.
How to Succeed in the BPCI-A Program: Transforming Care Across the Continuum
A strategy-focused article about the importance of robust care coordination and management for successful participation in alternative advanced payment models. Includes information from a recent meeting of HFMA’s Value-Based Healthcare Innovation Council (VBHIC).
Eliminating cost as a barrier to healthcare
An innovative financial services company talks about how it addresses patient payment pain points, offering patients interest-free payment arrangements without any fees and helping healthcare organizations improve self-pay collections without increasing domestic spend.