Finance and Business Strategy

Imagining the Healthcare Revenue Cycle of Tomorrow

HFMA will be source for all things required to create the healthcare revenue cycle of tomorrow.

Kevin Brennan, FHFMA, CPA August 29, 2018

Revenue Cycle Outsourcing Requires Attention to Service Standards and Risk-Based Arrangements

When a healthcare provider chooses to outsource management of its revenue cycle, it should first make sure the arrangement with its vendor partner is well-designed, with clearly defined terms and financial incentives. 

David A. Wofford August 29, 2018

High-Deductible Plans Surge: CDC

Aug. 28—Despite recent data indicating a reversal in the trend toward high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), a national federal survey found enrollment surged in 2018 to include nearly half of the privately insured. 

Rich Daly August 29, 2018

Marshfield Clinic Finds Success with Home Recovery Care

Marshfield Clinic’s home-hospitalization program is replicating the results that other hospital-at-home initiatives have shown: high patient satisfaction, good clinical outcomes, and significantly lower costs of care.

Lola Butcher August 22, 2018

Just How Different Is the Healthcare Market?

Healthcare stakeholders should start treating consumers in the same manner as other industries that operate more like free markets, writes Joseph J. Fifer, president and CEO, HFMA.

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA August 22, 2018

Collaborating With Your CEO

CEOs want CFOs who can think strategically, not just operationally. Today's CFOs should have an eye toward advancing clinical quality, patient satisfaction, employee engagement, and financial stability goals.

Laura Ramos Hegwer August 15, 2018

Health Systems Share ‘Pearls of Innovation’

A recent investor conference featured presentations by 27 tax-exempt health systems. Common threads include quality and safety and consumer focus.

Edward Chadwick August 15, 2018

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

Ask the Experts: Defined Contribution Plan Policies

I am looking for a sample policy on current defined contribution plans based on ERISA and Department of Labor requirements.

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
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