Healthcare Business Trends

Health Systems Present at Investor Conference

Investors, bankers, and rating agencies learned about the priorities of 27 health systems during a recent healthcare investor conference. 

HFMA August 15, 2018

A Push to Streamline Value-Based Payment

Value-based payment is ripe to repeat past fee-for-service problems—widespread slowdowns as each entity took different approaches to data collection and sharing and, as a result, hampering interactions. CAQH CORE is getting in front of these challenges now.

Erin Richter Weber August 15, 2018

How to Get Involved in CAQH CORE’s Work

CAQH CORE currently is forming groups to work on healthcare data standardization. Healthcare finance professionals are a core constituent and CAQH welcomes their participation.

HFMA August 15, 2018

Safety Net System Achieves $130M in Fiscal Improvements in 4 Years

Denials management and “keepage” strategies—keeping services within the health system—helped Maricopa Integrated Health Services improve its margins even in the face of a challenging payer mix.

Laura Ramos Hegwer August 13, 2018

Hospitals Are Using Cost Reduction to Trim Patient Charges

The healthcare industry has undergone a major decrease in average annual charge growth. Hospitals at the lowest end of the charge growth spectrum are using cost reduction to slow the level of charge change. 

Jamie Cleverley August 13, 2018

Cohort Reports from the 2018 Annual Conference

HFMA presents reports detailing strategies on cost reduction, consumerism, and business intelligence and analytics.

HFMA August 8, 2018

What’s Driving Increased Hospital Cost Concerns?

Cost control eclipsed revenue growth as the top priority among health system CEOs, according to Advisory Board’s Annual Health Care CEO Survey.

Rich Daly August 6, 2018

How Providers and Insurers can Collaborate to Manage the Cost of Genetic Testing

The cost of genetic testing and therapy, often a deterrent to a potentially beneficial treatment, can be made more manageable if providers and insurers work together.

David Nixon July 10, 2018

Keys to Growing High-Value Service Lines

Growing top-performing service lines can be an effective strategy for healthcare organizations to advance their business objectives.

HFMA July 3, 2018

How to Grow High-Value Service Lines Effectively

Growing top-performing service lines can be an effective strategy for healthcare organizations to advance their business objectives.

Gary Druckenmiller, Jr. July 3, 2018
googletag.cmd.push( function () { googletag.display( 'hfma-gpt-leaderboard' ); } );