HFMA Newsletters: How-To Strategies for Today’s Challenges
HFMA’s three subscription-based newsletters provide healthcare finance leaders with the expert insight and practical strategies and tools needed to succeed in an era of change. Newsletters cover three specialty areas: strategic financial planning, revenue cycle, and cost containment.
Subscription Benefits Include:
- Technical how-to details and thought-provoking insights from healthcare finance leaders and industry experts who have implemented real-life innovations
- Email addresses of providers and experts interviewed—so you can reach out with questions
- Print copies of each issue delivered to your mailing address
- E-mail blasts delivered to your email, linking you to electronic versions of each issue (PDF and html)
- Electronic archives of past newsletter issues, providing years of knowledge that you can access on the HFMA web site
The bimonthly newsletter provides provider-tested tactics for strategic cost containment. In one past issue, subscribers learned how Bon Secours Health System reduced blood use by 65 percent and adverse events by 14 percent—while garnering savings of $1.97 million.
Other Topics Include:
- Trimming service-line costs
- Reducing labor and supply expenses
- Working with physicians to reduce clinical costs
- Transitioning to cost accounting
In 10 issues a year, this popular newsletter provides finance leaders with needed advice on denials management, collections, coding, and other revenue cycle issues. Recently, subscribers learned how Mission Hospital reduced denied claims from Blue Shield of California by 65 percent.
Other Topics Include:
- Responding to Medicare audits
- Resolving coding issues
- Improving insurance eligibility rates
- Using Lean process improvement to improve KPIs
This quarterly newsletter provides specifics on how to prioritize, implement, and finance strategic and capital decisions. In a recent issue, subscribers learned how Adventist Health is gaining a better handle on actual costs by transitioning to a multiple RVU costing system.
Other Topics Include:
- Successful financing approaches
- Strategic reimbursement tactics
- The latest strategic, financial, and capital planning approaches
- Business intelligence approaches
- Growth strategies
HFMA newsletters are aimed at healthcare finance leaders with topic-specific information needs. The more you subscribe to, the more knowledge and connections you receive. If you have any questions, please contact Member Services at 800 252-4362, extension 2.