Finance and Business Strategy

A Population Health ‘A-Ha’ Moment: Focusing Care Coordination on the Right Patients

Predictive data models can point to who will be hospitalized next year with accuracy that frequently surprises health practitioners.

Shantanu Phatakwala January 15, 2018

Video: Participating in Bundled Payment Initiatives

Tamira Harris, PhD, MBA, MSN, business adviser for Change Healthcare, takes a look at how healthcare entities can get started with bundled payment initiatives, including care design and delivery.

HFMA January 9, 2018

Leading Change Effectively

Healthcare organizations implementing changes, whether driven by outside or inside influences, must consider how such change will impact employees and organizational culture.

Paul Selivanoff, CPA January 9, 2018

High Discount Health Plans: Right for the Consumer, but What About PFS?

Organizations writing off more and more patient debt may want to explore new avenues for collaboration.

Jeff Helton,  PHD, FHFMA, CMA, CFE January 9, 2018

Benchmarks Are a Starting Point, Not the Goal

Nick Vennaro makes the case for a standardized benchmarking framework as a basis for improvement.

Nick Vennaro January 8, 2018

Trendsetter: Embracing New Technologies to Reimagine the Revenue Cycle

By partnering with all stakeholders, exploring and advancing new technologies, and fostering collaboration, Change Healthcare helps providers and payers navigate the transforming healthcare marketplace—aiming to enable a new paradigm in which health care is more efficient, effective, and patient-centric.

HFMA December 29, 2017

The Next Frontier in Consumerism

Over the years, healthcare interoperability—or the lack thereof—has not been an issue for consumers. Those days are coming to an end.

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA December 20, 2017

The Continued Move to Greater Integration and Consolidation

The nation’s hospitals face a potential threat of being excluded from the healthcare delivery system based on recent merger and acquisition activity in the industry.

Gail R Wilensky, PhD December 20, 2017

Let’s Have a Think

Healthcare finance leaders should think deeply about what they can do to meaningfully contribute to advancing meaningful improvements, including transformed leadership structures, within the nation’s healthcare system.

Carol A. Friesen, FHFMA, MPH December 20, 2017

Pick Up the Pace (or Forfeit the Race)

HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer discusses recent healthcare industry merger news in the context of consumerism and collaboration imperatives.

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA December 20, 2017
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