New report: Patients and insurance companies in the United States pay higher prices for almost everything healthcare-related
Healthcare providers are likely to experience increased scrutiny and pressure to lower healthcare costs in 2020. To help its members successfully navigate this new environment, HFMA is hosting its first Financial Sustainability Summit April 16-17 in Denver (hfma.org/events).
Information-sharing rule creates new hospital, health plan transparency requirements
Hospitals and health plans will face new patient data transparency requirements in as soon as six months under two new final rules from the federal government.
State legislators roll back Indiana hospital bill that could have cut payments to hospitals
Health plans seeking state legislative help with site-neutral payments will likely find allies among employers who are increasingly frustrated with healthcare costs.
How long will employers continue to tolerate healthcare cost growth in excess of inflation?
Employer frustration with high healthcare costs is translating into support for more aggressive governmental intervention in healthcare markets.
Activity-Based Costing: When to Walk and When to Run
A modified approach to activity-based costing can balance an organization’s desire for operational excellence with its need for repeatable, low-maintenance solutions.
The new hfm is (re)designed to help you get what you need faster and easier
A new, next-level design makes hfm easier to read and more useful than ever.
Healthcare finance professionals: Are you ready for the big wave of consumerism and transparency?
Healthcare organizations should avoid going into "protection mode" and actively respond to pressures from government, the private sector and patients to better serve patients while reducing costs of care.
Quality is table stakes, but patient financial experience of care is key to future referrals
A high-quality patient financial experience of care is key to a steady stream of referrals.
Why health plans remain leery of giving quality data to enrollees
Shortcomings in quality data limit its usefulness to enrollees, health plans say.
Many ‘failed’ federal healthcare quality programs need to end, analysts say
Experts on value-based payment say many federal programs have failed to produce results and need to be swept aside.