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The Knowledge Center offers a comprehensive listing of all resources HFMA offers on healthcare finance topics, sorted by topic area.

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Don't Lose Money with Your Technology Upgrade

After a technology upgrade, a hospital should take specific steps preempt issues that could lead to decreased revenue.

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Safety Net Hospital Meeting Request and Questions for Potential Affiliates

Safety Net Hospital invited some organizations to present their credentials to a steering committee for concurrent analysis of each system candidate.

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ICD-10: From Assessment to Remediation to Strategic Opportunity

This case study about Geisinger Health System’s ICD-10 implementation offers lessons to organizations that are just beginning to implement ICD-10 .

View AllOperations Management

Shutting the Door on Avoidable Hospital Readmissions

A primary care group in Denver used business intelligence to reduce its readmission rate to 1 percent.

View AllPayment, Reimbursement, and Managed Care

Update on Bundled Payments: Overview of Private and Public Sector Activity

In this session, the speaker will review the scope and status of current bundled payment efforts deployed by private sector payers and Medicare.

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Managing Payer Relationships

This session will detail the journey of Saint Francis Hospital as they created an organizational culture designed to improve internal communications and hold payers accountable for timely claims processing and reprocessing, decrease turnaround times and minimize unwarranted denials.

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Using Ordinary Least Squares Regression to Complete Operational Analyses

An ordinary least squares trend analysis can help determine whether a correlation exists between staffing levels and the number of applications in use by hospitals.

Education & Events

Improve Case Mix Index, Reduce Costs and Prepare for ICD-10 with Computer-Assisted Coding

February 08, 2012

This session will educate hospital finance professionals on the financial benefits of computer-assisted coding (CAC) and will demonstrate how Gwinnett Hospital System utilized CAC to improve their case mix index by more than 3.4% resulting in nearly $1.4M in revenue. Feb. 8.

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Applying for the NEW MAP Award for Performance Improvement in Revenue Cycle

February 09, 2012

This session will highlight the criteria required to apply for and win the new MAP Award for Performance Improvement in Revenue Cycle, which will be presented for the first time in October of 2012.

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Keep the Cash Flowing: Strategies for Success in a 5010 World

February 22, 2012

The 5010 transition deadline has passed, yet there is no rest for the weary. Whether moving on to address the next big revenue cycle challenge or tying up 5010 loose ends, there are helpful strategies to support accurate reimbursements and keep cash flowing. This webinar will briefly recap lessons learned and the elements of a successful 5010 transition.

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HFMA Career Center

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Legal Challenges to Healthcare Reform

Track the multiple lawsuits involving the Affordable Care Act.

HFMA CHFP Online Study Materials Now Available

The Healthcare Finance Core Curriculum online study preparation for the new 2011 CHFP examination is now available for purchase.

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Using Technology to Reveal True Costs

A lack of good costing data is a barrier to achieving value in healthcare organizations. Learn how to select and implement technologies designed to improve costing.

Don't Lose Money with Your Technology Upgrade

After a technology upgrade, a hospital should take specific steps preempt issues that could lead to decreased revenue.

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