Patient Friendly Billing: News

HFMA Publications

• A Question About Pricing, Richard L. Clarke, DHA, FHFMA, HFM May 2007
• Caring for the Uninsured: A Financial Executive's Top 10 List, Sandra W. Wolfskill, HFM March 2007
• Data and Dollars: How CDHC is Driving the Convergency of Banking and Health Care, David C. Hammer, HFM February 2007
• Consumerism and Leadership, Richard L. Clarke, DHA, FHFMA, HFM October 2006
• Adapting Customer Service to Consumer-Directed Health Care, David C. Hammer, HFM September 2006
• Advance Estimates: 4 Approaches to Price Transparency, Terry Allison Rappuhn, HFM August 2006
• Embrace Consumerism? Am I Crazy?, Richard L. Clarke, DHA, FHFMA, HFM June 2006
• HFMA Roundtable: Are You Ready for Pricing Transparency?, HFM June 2006
• Hospital billing practices and the uninsured: an emerging legislative response, Andrew Mckinley, HFM November 2004
• Creating community connections, Richard L. Clarke, FHFMA, HFM October 2004
• Medicare implications of discounts to the uninsured, HFM July 2004
• The Revenue Cycle From The Patient's Perspective, Terry Allison Rappuhn, HFM, September 2003
• A Customer-Friendly Revenue Cycle Improves Patient Satisfaction, Loyalty, HFM, January 2002
• Patient Friendly Billing Project: Putting the Patient First by HFMA and the AHA, HFM, December 2001  

Announcements

PATIENT FRIENDLY BILLING^® project Wins Award 
HFMA has been added to the 2003 Associations Advance America Honor Roll for its leadership of the Patient Friendly Billing project. This honor, awarded by American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), recognizes how associations play a vital role in helping the nation adapt to complex and changing times.

Press Releases

• PATIENT FRIENDLY BILLING® Report Calls for Overhaul of Healthcare’s Pricing System (July 02, 2007)
  
  
• Patient Friendly Billing Releases Consumerism in Health Care Report: Price Transparency a Key Focus (June 19, 2006)
  
  
• The Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition (HASC) announced its support for PATIENT FRIENDLY BILLING^® on March 20, 2006.