What the numbers from PAC-improvement efforts show
Efforts to reduce spending on post-acute care have been shown to reduce variation in Medicare spending overall, while also reducing hospital readmissions.
5 tips for an effective internal collection process
Given the challenges long-term care and skilled nursing facilities face, these provides require an effective collection process.
Fear Factor, HFMA style
HFMA's current Chair, Michael Allen, urges finance professionals not to shy away from fear and failure, but to embrace them and grow as a result.
Primary Care First Model holds promise but faces challenges
CMS's Primary Care First Model aims to create incentives for primary care physicians to take on risk under value-based payment, but whether it will be successful remains to be seen.
Healthcare Finance Leaders Should Belong to the Heartbeat of Progress
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer shares highlights of HFMA’s new initiative to reinvent the membership experience.
Forecast: ACA tug-of-war to continue through 2020
Given the political realities of a divided government, the forecast through 2020 calls for a continuation of the tug-of- war over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Washington. With the ongoing expansion of the field of Democratic Party contenders for the presidency in 2020, not to mention the continuing battle over the ACA between the…
Evolving compliance risks that should be on your radar
Today’s healthcare organizations face evolving compliance risks that require multidimensional compliance programs focused on promoting greater coordination among all an organization’s functional areas.
Marcus Whitney says it’s time healthcare leaders embrace disruption
Industry disruption presents opportunities for established healthcare organizations to partner with emerging companies. For that to happen, the entrepreneur says, leaders need to find the right mindset.
Change Healthcare: Accelerating healthcare innovation by productizing APIs
Change Healthcare talks about transforming the approach to application programming interfaces (APIs) to deliver them as individualized products that solve healthcare-specific problems.
HealthTrust: A holistic approach to value analysis
Three HealthTrust leaders talk about the cost and quality advantages of creating a value analysis program and offer strategies for getting started.