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