Not-for-profit healthcare organizations should understand the benefits and risks of FASB’s new alternative accounting approach
A FASB Financial Accounting Standards Update now allows not-for-profit healthcare entities to adopt an accounting alternative previously available only to non-public business entities, but the not-for-profits may find it more beneficial not to do so.
Acquisition accounting basics to consider
The FASB’'s Accounting Standards Codification Topic 850, Business Combinations, states that such combinations generally involve five basic steps.
An 8-step checklist to help CFOs assess accounting alternatives
Finance leaders of not-for-profit healthcare organizations should follow eight steps when considering whether to adopt the accounting alternatives made available to their organizations by the FASB's Accounting Standards Update 2019-16.
2 USDA loan programs offer advantages for rural healthcare organizations
Capital Finance: Two rapidly increasing USDA rural loan programs offer many rural hospitals low-interest capital finance options that have fewer requirements than commercial debt.
HFMA: CMS transparency effort misses the mark
Podcast: HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer discusses HFMA’s perspectives regarding a CMS proposed rule that has generated controversy in that it would require the public release of rates hospitals negotiated with health plans.
November 2019
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Where is your health system on the journey to systemness?
Healthcare Innovation: Healthcare organizations should keep track of progress toward operating as a unified system after mergers and acquisitions.
3 ways cost models are a key to success under risk
Business Intelligence: New primary care models can help healthcare organizations achieve financial goals.
Innovative startup works to solve billing problems for patients and providers
HFMA members voted Papaya, a mobile app for patient payment, the most innovative startup at HFMA’s June Annual Conference.
Broad trends are driving the imperative for hospitals to revisit cardiac care
A number of factors have contributed to declining revenue growth for hospitals' cardiac catheterization labs in recent years.