COVID-19 impact on independent primary care physician practices could accelerate the shift to value based payment
Health plans are taking this opportunity to align more closely with independent PCPs, including BCBS of North Carolina, where practices’ acceptance of financial support requires them to join one of health plan’s existing ACOs.
McKinsey & Company shares how to thrive during the next recession
Aneesh Krishna of McKinsey & Company discusses how successful healthcare organizations behave before, during and after an economic downturn. Also, Rich Daly and Chad Mulvany talk about surprise bills, and we list five things healthcare finance leaders should know about AI.
The Latest on COVID-19, How Hospitals Can Bolster Their Communities, and Revenue Cycle Technology Opportunities
HFMA's Rich Daly and Chad Mulvany talk about the latest from Washington on the coronavirus. Scott Rowe of Conifer Health Solutions discusses revenue cycle technology, and Marla Weston, former CEO of the American Nurses Association, talks about everyday business practices that hospitals can use to bolster their communities. This episode is sponsored by GHX.
COVID-19 is the deflection point for new health system flexibility
Integrated health systems will require flexibility as they begin a process of adjusting to the new healthcare environment that follows the COVID-19 crisis.
Pace of physician practice acquisition by health plans may accelerate post-pandemic
HFMA’s Chad Mulvany says it is likely health plans will have both motive and the wherewithal to acquire physician practices or employ physicians whose practices didn’t have the balance sheet to survive the revenue shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new hfm is (re)designed to help you get what you need faster and easier
A new, next-level design makes hfm easier to read and more useful than ever.
Health plan-owned PCP clinics steer members to lower-cost sites-of-service
Hospitals and health systems need to be able to deliver high-quality outcomes in a cost-efficient manner to ensure they are not implicitly tiered out of a health plan's network.
When movement isn’t movement: A wake-up call for healthcare finance professionals I HFMA
The results of healthcare finance executives' efforts to drive change will be of little value if they don't also help improve quality, patient experience or cost of care.
Inpatient market consolidation has led to stable inpatient markets in metro areas I HFMA
After a period of rapid consolidation, U.S. metro inpatient markets are now stable oligopolies, with a small number of competing provider systems selling inpatient services to a small number of health insurers.
Realizing the economic benefits of a merger starts with integrating post-merger operations
After a merger, a healthcare organization needs to take specific steps to ensure that transaction delivers the intended economic benefits.