Bringing the HFMA Code of Ethics to Life
Ethics can and should be practical, and ethical practice begins with knowing and living by the highest standards of an association.
Benchmarking: Moving Beyond a Metrics Beauty Pageant
The true power of benchmarking entails studying how best practice organizations achieve their top performance levels and then takes those lessons learned and adapts them for use by other provider organizations.
Chinese Investment: An Opportunity for U.S. Healthcare Organizations
With a growing middle class and a desire for improved healthcare services, China is becoming a key investor in U.S. healthcare organizations, with the goal of bringing some of their practices and services back home.
Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Recognizing that hunger, housing instability, and other problems make it difficult for people to get and stay healthy, ProMedica is transforming its care delivery model and making substantial investments. The health system is starting with a $50 million initiative to research and address social determinants of health in the communities it serves.
11 Metrics Reveal the Best Strategies For Cutting Outpatient Prices
A scoring methodology is the first step in evaluating outpatient service price reductions without sacrificing financial viability.
The Impact of Tax Reform on Hospital Capital Financing
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law in December 2017 is expected to impact interest rates charged by banks to not-for-profit hospitals in direct placements and may steer some refundings to structures involving complex new risks.
Feb. 22—Congress will take a look this week at one of the new breed of mergers that are shaking up the healthcare industry.
Feb. 22—Congress will take a look this week at one of the new breed of mergers that are shaking up the healthcare industry.
How the Right Leadership Mindset Can Pave the Way to Success
Best-selling author Jo Owen describes the seven leadership mindsets that distinguish the best leaders from the pack.
Ask the Experts: Service Line Analysis
What are the main steps in developing a productivity benchmark model for a service line?
Congress Weighs Responses to Hospital M&A
Feb. 15—Reduced Medicare payments to practices acquired by hospitals, tightened 340B requirements, more telemedicine funding, and increased transparency were among the possible federal responses to hospital merger-and-acquisition (M&A) trends, as discussed this week by members of Congress.