How one hospital improved patient access, specialty referrals and completed-appointment rates
Texas Children’s Hospital achieved financial and operational improvements after streamlining referral and scheduling processes to better accommodate providers and patients.
Pursuing a Proactive Denials Strategy Helps Resolve Denials and Prevent Recurrence
A look at how one company is partnering with healthcare organizations to use data and technology to address the root causes of long-standing problems, including denials.
How Texas Children’s Hospital’s patient-access initiative enhanced revenue opportunities
For Texas Children's Hospital, a key to capitalizing on patient revenue opportunities identified by its patient access initiative was to reduce losses that arose from out-of-network insurers.
5 tips for an effective internal collection process
Given the challenges long-term care and skilled nursing facilities face, these provides require an effective collection process.
Hospital executives urge colleagues to comment on upcoming transparency rules
Hospital and health leaders were urged by their colleagues to watch for and comment on coming rules implementing this week’s White House executive order on price transparency.
Papaya wins HFMA Virtual Pitch contest
HFMA Annual Conference attendees voted Papaya the winner of the Virtual Pitch contest.
HFMA’s South Texas Chapter wins highest chapter honor
South Texas Chapter of HFMA earns the Robert M. Shelton Award.
Hospitals express concerns on latest transparency order
A new transparency executive order will require proposed rules within two months that could require release of negotiated hospital health plan rates.
Little progress seen in mitigating prior-authorization challenges
Prior-authorization challenges appear to be worsening for providers, despite a 2018 payer-provider effort to address such problems.
Analysis: Effect of expansion of pre-tax accounts for employees to purchase insurance
HFMA's Chad Mulvany shares the possible impact of a proposed rule that allows employers to make pre-tax contributions for employees to purchase individual coverage starting in 2020.