Hospitals should increase capacity in response to the coronavirus, former HHS secretary says
Hospitals should prepare for an inpatient surge due to the novel coronavirus. Options include moving private rooms back to semiprivate status.
National emergency declared, with hospital provisions included, in response to the coronavirus
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, which will provide a range of funding and policies aimed at boosting hospital responsiveness to the spread of the coronavirus.
Azar warns about hospital overcrowding if the public overreacts to the coronavirus
People could swamp hospitals if they overreact to the novel coronavirus, the senior federal healthcare official warned Congress this week.
Tips on how leaders should communicate during major change initiatives
During times of organizational change, leaders should recognize the importance of communication in ensuring the change gets implemented effectively.
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.
HFMA gathering aims to arm CFOs for coming challenges
Inaugural HFMA Financial Sustainability Summit, April 16-17 in Denver, will bring together more than 200 hospital and physician practice CFOs to learn and share strategies.
Don’t allow risk aversion to get in the way of innovation
Failure to act can be failure to innovate.
Optum360 helps providers and payers work together to resolve revenue cycle problems
Optum360 illustrates how it is driving change across healthcare by empowering and engaging staff to be creative in solving payer and provider challenges and viewing the revenue cycle more holistically.
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.
Humana partners with private equity firm to expand its primary care capabilities
Humana employing primary care physicians will help improve financial results for its plans by increasing HCC and Stars scores (increased revenue) and reduce medical expenses by improving care management and using claims data to make referrals to lower-cost providers.