Community Benefit & Transparency Tools
HFMA has compiled these resources for hospitals and health systems to use for compliance when listing standard charges to the public and procedures around charity care.
Case Study: Hand & Wrist Center of Houston
The Hand & Wrist Center of Houston is a surgical practice that is using effectively using a combination of technology and service to significantly improve its revenue cycle.
Practical Tips for Maintaining Control over the Revenue Cycle
Using technology to prevent denied claims and providing patients with price transparency are just two ways healthcare organizations can improve their revenue cycle performance.
The Plain Community: Meeting a Unique Consumer Healthcare Challenge
Jeff Goldsmith, John Porter, and Maria Royce describe one health system’s effective solution for addressing the healthcare needs of a religious community whose belief systems prevent them from accessing care via common, mainstream approaches.
3 Best Practices to Reduce the Cost of Healthcare Miscommunication
Will O’Connor discusses the top causes of miscommunication among medical staff and ways to avoid them to ensure patient safety and fewer malpractice claims.
Q&A: Do Price Transparency Regulations Improve the Patient Experience?
Two healthcare finance leaders explain why their organizations are placing more emphasis on patient education and customer service than on new regulations surrounding charge transparency.
Strategic Partnerships in An Era of Value
Healthcare organizations are diving into partnership business models to leverage expertise, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies.
Deceased Medicare Beneficiary Admissions: Accounting for the Causes and Impacts
Hospitals and health systems should be prepared to see a greater financial impact from Medicare hospital admissions that end with beneficiaries being deceased than from such admissions that end with the patients leaving the hospital in an improved condition.
The Value of Financial Analytics
Data analytics and business intelligence are essential tools for effectively managing the financial performance of healthcare organizations.
Monetizing Data: The Key to Realizing the Value of Data Analytics
Healthcare organizations require data analytics to succeed in the emerging value-focused healthcare environment, and through data monetization, in which they use these assets to create economic value, they can realize the value of their investment in the analytics.