Financial Leadership

Reflections on a year of imagining a better tomorrow

Healthcare finance leaders should seek to adopt and promote best practices and inspire their teams to learn, experiment and volunteer, and HFMA can help.

Kevin Brennan, FHFMA, CPA May 29, 2019

Closing the gap between the CFO and the ‘next in line’

The new focus on CFOs as strategic business partner requires them to groom successors with broader skill sets that align with future organizational needs.

Michael Raddatz May 14, 2019

The 4 Qualities of ‘Next-Level’ Healthcare CFOs

The impact of “next-level” CFOs is felt and seen throughout organizations. For example, by mentoring and coaching to build financial literacy across teams and organizations, these CFOs are seen as proactive and selfless servant leaders who are improving their organizations.

John McFarland February 14, 2019

Work: The Cure For Political Overload

HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer discusses why today’s healthcare challenges transcend politics—and the implications for healthcare finance leaders. 

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA November 28, 2018

Rethinking Revenue Cycle Management

Fully managed revenue cycle functions present challenges and opportunities. When successful, they better align with an organization’s clinical and financial goals.

HFMA November 8, 2018

Just How Different Is the Healthcare Market?

Healthcare stakeholders should start treating consumers in the same manner as other industries that operate more like free markets, writes Joseph J. Fifer, president and CEO, HFMA.

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA August 22, 2018

4 Strategies to Unlock Healthcare Performance Management Constraints

Hospital and health system finance leaders should play a central role in ensuring their organizations are applying high-quality enterprise performance management approaches that improve their organizations’ strategic agility in addressing enterprise risk. 

Daniel Seargeant March 21, 2018

HFMA’s ‘Secret Sauce’

The ability to deliver value that meets the critical current and future needs of healthcare stakeholders, whether they be patients or healthcare finance professionals, requires at some point a step forward with faith.

Carol A. Friesen, FHFMA, MPH January 29, 2018

Healthcare Affordability

HFMA President and CEO Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, presents a holiday challenge to healthcare finance leaders.

HFMA January 3, 2018

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
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