It’s Patient Experience Week: Check out HFMA resources on improving the patient financial experience
The financial experience is an important yet often underappreciated part of the overall patient experience. During Patient Experience Week, there are many simple ways for a healthcare organization to celebrate its revenue cycle team’s accomplishments.
Your patients’ missed screening means advanced cancer: Here’s how to get patients back and how to treat them in the comfort of their own homes
Dr. Andrew Hertler, chief medical officer at New Century Health, discusses what healthcare organizations can do to catch up on patients' missed cancer screenings. He also shares new developments in oncology that could see patients receiving treatment at home or doing virtual follow-up care.
Beyond healthcare: What consumers want
West Health-Gallup recently found only 5% of consumers believe that Americans are receiving high-value healthcare. Joe Fifer says addressing this challenge will require a new mindset and an expanded mission, but he believes healthcare leaders are up to it.
More than 2 years into the pandemic, the issue of deferred care continues to affect the healthcare industry
Concerns about the implications of deferred care continue to grow as healthcare organizations establish their strategies for a post-pandemic landscape.
David Johnson: Cracks in the Foundation (Part 3): Overcoming healthcare’s services-need mismatch
Clinical care only accounts for 20% of health outcomes, yet this area is where America disproportionately invests its healthcare resources. To overcome U.S. healthcare’s services-need mismatch, there should be a greater investment in healthy multipliers that help to address the social and economic factors, health behaviors and the physical environment that drive the remaining 80% of health outcomes.
The real reason people don’t get vaccinated for COVID-19? They don’t feel like it.
Vaccination for COVID-19 has been a topic of hot debate, but even among those people who received their initial shots, the uptake on boosters has been underwhelming. On a recent episode of the “Voices in Healthcare Finance” podcast, Jacob Braude, a principal at life sciences consulting firm ZS, discussed what makes people decide to get vaccinated and what drives them away.
Joe Fifer: Revenue cycle workforce shortages: Culture is key
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer offers perspectives on the revenue cycle workforce shortage.
Spectrum Health leaders create diversity council for CFO-led functions
The new program helps boost CFO division diversity by 4 percentage points in a year and a half.
Paul Keckley: PE investing trends healthcare finance leaders need to watch
As healthcare finance professionals in traditional health settings focus on managing their organizations’ capital commitments and evaluating direct investments in private equity funds to enhance non-operating income, they should monitor two megatrends, involving “Big private equity” and special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
Marcus Whitney: 3 healthcare innovation trends that leaders should keep an eye on
The workforce shortage, the behavioral health movement and value-based care are areas with the most momentum among early-stage investors.