Sponsorship opportunities help you make an impact on the industry by forming meaningful, long-lasting relationships with healthcare financial leaders.
HFMA has developed four annual sponsorship program packages: Diamond, Platinum, Gold, and Silver. Designation in one of these categories depends on the level of financial contribution and activity of the sponsoring organization.
HFMA also offers many standard sponsorship offerings ranging from social activities to educational events and research. For inquiries concerning annual and other sponsorship opportunities, please contact Kurt Belisle or call (815) 549-1034.
Diamond Sponsors
With over 30 years of industry experience and more than 400 healthcare bankers and product specialists in the United States and Europe, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is a powerful provider to healthcare companies of every size and sector. From cash management solutions to capital raising and capital markets services, we provide integrated solutions customized to help you meet your specific objectives. Bank of America Merrill Lynch provides the financial strength of a global bank combined with the personal service of a local banking relationship. You can depend on us to customize our banking products and services to your distinct needs in healthcare. www.bankofamerica.com/healthcare

An HFMA Peer Reviewed Solution Provider
Emdeon empowers healthcare providers through innovative revenue cycle management solutions by tapping the most complete network of payers, partners, and resources in the healthcare industry. Our uniquely efficient services Simplify the Business of Healthcare to save our clients time and money so they can focus on what’s most important—their patients.

McKesson is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver care in the safest, most cost-effective manner possible. McKesson’s consumer-driven revenue cycle solutions increase pre-service collections, improve financial performance, and measure and monitor your key performance indicators using actionable data. These financial clearance and financial settlement solutions also optimize payor reimbursement, lower the cost of collections, and increase patient satisfaction. McKesson and HFMA have collaborated on the following reports:
Optum™ is an information and technology-enabled health services business platform serving the broad health marketplace, including care providers, plan sponsors, life sciences companies, and consumers. Its business units—OptumInsight™, OptumHealth™ and OptumRx™—employ more than 30,000 people worldwide who are committed to enabling Sustainable Health Communities.
RelayHealth’s proven financial clearance and settlement services enable you to verify eligibility, confirm patient payment before service, identify and manage your uninsured and under–insured, help find funding for uninsured, collect self-pay dollars faster through online billing and customized patient statements, and effectively manage your claims from inception through resolution. RelayHealth efficiently connects you to your payers, financial institutions, patients, physicians, and pharmacies for increased cash flow and productivity while reducing administrative costs. RelayHealth securely processes over 12 billion financial and clinical transactions each year. Learn more at our website, or call (800) 778-6711. www.relayhealth.com
Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services
Healthcare extends beyond one person, in one department, in one building. It is an active process that requires communication, collaboration, and decision-making—across care providers and care settings. Siemens solutions help you eliminate silos, so patient information flows to the right people at the right time—enabling better collaboration, reduced manual effort, and more informed and efficient decision-making. We offer solutions that break down barriers to help you solve business problems, improve patient safety, strengthen the revenue cycle, and enable technology to improve patient care.
Learn how Siemens helps you achieve better patient and financial outcomes with innovative information technology (IT) solutions, management consulting, and IT services today.
Siemens is a proud sponsor of the following HFMA reports and roundtables:
Platinum Sponsors
Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) provides innovative solutions that empower all stakeholders across the healthcare continuum to deliver world-class outcomes. The company's clinical, financial, connectivity and information solutions for hospitals, physicians and post-acute organizations are the essential technologies that enable a connected healthcare community. To learn more about Allscripts, please visit http://www.allscripts.com, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
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An HFMA Peer Reviewed Solution Provider
Conifer Health Solutions is a healthcare business process management services provider offering solutions that address the entire continuum of health administration. We provide comprehensive operational management for revenue cycle functions, offer patient communications solutions to optimize communication between providers and patient, and support value-based performance through dynamic payment arrangements, ACO management, population health management, and clinical integration solutions.

An HFMA Peer Reviewed Solution Provider
By partnering with Craneware, healthcare providers achieve the visibility required to identify, address, and prevent revenue leakage. Our automated revenue integrity solutions allow providers to effectively price, charge, and code for the services and supplies associated with patient care. Craneware’s market-driven approach to revenue integrity optimizes reimbursement, increases operational efficiency, and minimizes compliance risk.
Craneware has achieved HFMA Peer Reviewed status for Chargemaster Toolkit® and Chargemaster Corporate Toolkit®, including Online Reference Toolkit®, Bill Analyzer and the Interface Scripting Module.
Visit www.craneware.com
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Key is dedicated to supporting the health and well-being of the communities it shares. Through Key Healthcare, Key applies its deep expertise in healthcare finance, strategic advisory services, and revenue cycle management to help more than 10,000 healthcare organizations, practices, and facilities across the U.S. stay competitive while delivering the highest quality care. Key Bank is member FDIC.
Gold Sponsors
Crowe Horwath LLP is one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the United States. Under its core purpose of “Building Value with Values,®” Crowe assists public and private company clients in reaching their goals through audit, tax, advisory, risk, and performance services. With 26 offices and 2,400 personnel, Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country’s best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Horwath International, one of the largest networks in the world, consisting of more than 140 independent accounting and management consulting firms with offices in more than 400 cities around the world.
As the business hub for healthcare, GHX enables healthcare providers and suppliers to reduce costs and improve margins by automating processes, reducing operating expenses and increasing knowledge-based decision making. By leveraging connectivity between a majority of healthcare providers and their key suppliers, proven technology, and broad industry ownership, GHX continually develops and delivers innovative solutions that enable healthcare business performance excellence. Products and services include trading partner connectivity for electronic business transactions, order and contract management and validation, data synchronization, sales force automation, and business intelligence.
Visit our website at www.ghx.com.

Kaufman Hall is among healthcare's leading strategy and financial advisory firms providing the following consulting services and software tools:
- Strategic Financial and Capital Planning – Since developing the concept in 1983, Kaufman Hall has led the industry, preparing financial and capital plans for over 800 hospitals and systems.
- Debt- and Derivatives-Related Financial Advisory – Kaufman Hall is healthcare’s top rated Financial Advisor. Total debt and swaps issued on behalf of our clients exceed $47 billion and $23 billion, respectively.
- Strategic Advisory Services – Kaufman Hall provides a broad range of strategy and market-based services. We pioneered analysis-based integrated strategic and financial planning.
- Capital Allocation Process Design – Kaufman Hall designs and implements comprehensive corporate management processes to guide capital decision making and monitoring.
- Merger, Acquisition, Divestiture, and Joint Ventures – Kaufman Hall has advised clients on more than 150 M&A engagements, providing analysis, structuring, negotiation, and supporting execution.
- ENUFF® Software Suite – Kaufman Hall supports more than 1,110 software licensees. We deliver software in support of “best practices” in market planning, financial planning, operational budgeting and reporting, and capital budgeting and management.
An HFMA Peer Reviewed Solution Provider
MedAssets helps healthcare organizations to improve financial strength through innovative revenue cycle, spend and clinical resource management solutions that enable improved margins, cash flow, quality of care and patient satisfaction. More than 4,200 hospitals and 100,000 non-acute healthcare providers currently use the company’s Web-based technologies and evidence-based solutions. www.medassets.com
Silver Sponsors

Through its Global Commercial Card group, American Express offers a suite of payment solutions that helps hospitals streamline payment processes and transform them into opportunities for savings. Its dedicated team of hospital vendor payment specialists provides customized solutions by analyzing payment processes, diagnosing inefficiencies, and identifying ways to help each hospital secure larger returns to the bottom line. Working with American Express can help hospitals optimize working capital, increase days cash on hand, achieve their goals around savings, control and efficiency, and strengthen relationships with suppliers. For more information, visit www.americanexpress.com/hospitals.

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Ernst & Young is a global leader in advisory, tax, transaction and assurance services. Our Health Care Advisory Services practice combines the capabilities of over 2,000 professionals who assist our health care clients in addressing their most challenging issues from strategy to implementation, providing an integrated view of the entire health care landscape. Clients include more than 3,500 payers, providers, federal government health care agencies, and firms in life sciences and public health.

Fifth Third Bank offers unique healthcare solutions specifically designed to support a wide range of healthcare industry-related needs. Our integrated healthcare team has extensive industry experience to help you transition from paper to electronic processing, while offering advice around how you can optimize your back-office and related automation processes.

Firstsource Solutions USA delivers complete business process outsourcing solutions for healthcare clients. For more than 20 years, our proven operational strategy and comprehensive suite of innovative, technology-driven revenue cycle management solutions have been helping healthcare providers improve cash flow, maximize reimbursement, reduce bad debt and create value nationwide.

Healthcare Outsourcing Network. L.L.C., is a national revenue cycle management firm headquartered in Denver. HON provides self-pay and insurance follow-up services, via customized revenue recovery programs capitalizing on state-of-the-art technology and effective customer service. Our guiding principles are providing superior customer service, building client relationships, and maximizing recoveries.
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J.A. Thomas and Associates, Inc. is a nationally recognized expert in healthcare compliance and documentation improvement. Since 1991, JATA has worked with over 450 hospitals nationwide and more than 30,000 physicians to improve clinical performance and public profiles, justify reimbursement, and bridge the gap between clinical documentation and regulatory requirements. CDMP® or Compliant Documentation Management Program® achieves complete, compliant clinical documentation. JATA emphasizes collaboration among physicians, nurses, and coders to more accurately reflect severity of illness and complexity of treatment in clinical documentation. JATA helps hospitals get the credit they deserve. JATA's CDMP® includes peer-to-peer education, process improvement, software, support, and follow-up mentoring. Additional information on J.A. Thomas and Associates, Inc. is available at (800) 683-8734.

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Parallon Business Solutions delivers providers a full portfolio of proven solutions that transform the business of healthcare. We improve end-to-end performance, with a “patients first” philosophy, through people, processes and technology. Our Revenue Cycle services include consulting, collections, management services, payment compliance and denials management, full service outsourcing and more.

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Founded in 1996 by practicing anesthesiologists, Somnia Anesthesia is a full-service clinical anesthesia solutions partner, providing support in all areas of anesthesia including leadership, recruiting, revenue cycle management, payor contracting, quality assurance, billing, and credentialing to hospitals, surgery centers, and office-based surgical facilities. Owned and operated by physicians, Somnia provides locally recruited anesthesia teams supported by an unmatched national infrastructure that delivers the economies of scale our clients demand. Anesthesia continues to be Somnia’s only business. For additional information, visit www.somniainc.com/HFMA.