PFC USA’s partnership approach ensures healthcare clients tackle regulatory and patient satisfaction issues
Review some tips from a company with 6.5 years of hands-on experience in helping its healthcare clients handle concerns in healthcare such as workforce shortages and a volatile regulatory environment.
New approaches to nonclinical workforce management
Five healthcare leaders in revenue cycle management and patient access share their approach to workforce management in a remote and/or hybrid model and lessons learned along the way.
AMN Healthcare: Providing physician workforce solutions to increase staffing efficiencies and improve the patient experience
This profile highlights how one business oversees more than 3,000 physician recruiting assignments annually and provides details on other resources offered such as the NCQA-Certified Credentials Verification.
Dennis Dahlen: It’s time to stop dragging our feet on generative AI
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a tool that a recent study found is “nearly as good as recent med school graduates” at making clinical decisions, and it’s having a breakout year across industries, a McKinsey analysis shows.1 Yet few healthcare leaders have a strategy for solutions like ChatGPT — and it’s past time to develop…
4 common misconceptions about observation that have revenue implications
Among the many things that healthcare providers must document, few are as misunderstood and cause as much confusion as observation. Clearly, observation is often required as part of diagnosing and treating a disease or condition. The challenge for providers is that ambiguity and variability in regulatory and contract language create confusion regarding how to record…
Is consolidation in healthcare the work of modern-day robber barons — or the result of overdue reengineering?
he most successful industrialists of America’s Gilded Age were often skewered by contemporary critics as being robber barons. A new generation of naysayers wants to recycle the old rhetoric, this time targeting organizations focused on healthcare: The critics’ clear message: Big money is helping healthcare get bigger, and it’s a bad deal all around. Many…
HFMA member spotlight: Salem Alasmari’s Ministry of Health work focuses on KSA Transformation 2030
HFMA recently spoke with new international member Salem Alasmari, PhD, CPHQ, PMP, who is with the Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia, about his work related to the country’s 2030 Transformation goals. HFMA: Please describe your current position and job role? Salem Alasmari: Since January of 2021, I have worked as the assistant director general for…
Healthcare News of Note: Women without insurance or with public insurance at the time of childbirth are more likely to report mistreatment, says CDC
Over the past few weeks, I have found these industry news stories that should be of interest to healthcare finance professionals. 1. More women without insurance and with public health insurance report mistreatment during maternity care than those with private insurance Maternity care in the United States was put under the microscope in a new…
HFMA Comments on Request for Information Regarding Medical Payment Products
HFMA presents its comment letter to CMS on Request for Information Regarding Medical Payment Products
The intersection of quality and finance, with Rick Gundling and Stephanie Mercado
HFMA's Rick Gundling and Stephanie Mercado from the National Association for Healthcare Quality discuss how all entities within a healthcare organization can work for better quality.