Brad Dennison
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Vitalic Health survey: Leaders united on need for healthcare affordability, divided on how to fix it
CHICAGO (June 8, 2026) – Top healthcare experts across the nation overwhelmingly agree the U.S. healthcare system is financially unsustainable, and every stakeholder must share responsibility for making care more affordable, according to a Vitalic Health affordability survey released today. Powered by the neutral, nonpartisan, nonprofit Healthcare Financial Management Association, Vitalic Health was designed to…
HFMA’s Vitalic Health to gather more than 50 payers, providers and tech leaders to address rising claim denials
CHICAGO (Feb. 3, 2026) – The Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Vitalic Health announced today it will convene more than 50 payers, providers and tech companies to simplify and standardize the claims process in U.S. healthcare. Nearly 12 percent of patients’ claims for healthcare services are denied because of procedural requirements, benefit limitations, medical necessity concerns and more – a rising trend each year. Claim denials administration adds an estimated $25 billion in unnecessary spending to the healthcare system. “The relentless rise of claim…
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Ahead of national launch, public comments invited for U.S. Healthcare Consumer Vitals Tracker
Our nation’s healthcare system is in serious condition and heading toward critical condition, according to the newly developed U.S. Healthcare Vitals Tracker. Designed to measure and monitor our healthcare system’s affordability and capacity to meet present and future service demands, the Vitals Tracker comprises 25 well-known and internationally accepted metrics under the twin umbrellas of national health…
Ahead of national launch, public comments invited for U.S. Healthcare Consumer Vitals Tracker
Our nation’s healthcare system is in serious condition and heading toward critical condition, according to the newly developed U.S. Healthcare Vitals Tracker. Designed to measure and monitor our healthcare system’s affordability and capacity to meet present and future service demands, the Vitals Tracker comprises 25 well-known and internationally accepted metrics under the twin umbrellas of national health…
HFMA launches FastFinance as a new member benefit for healthcare finance executives
In 2024, HFMA’s award-winning editorial team set out to engineer a weekly newsletter product exclusively aimed at busy hospital and health system CFOs. Since launching the pilot in November, it has quickly gained a following among CFOs and other provider executives. In fact, in a recent survey of participating CFOs: HFMA’s FastFinance is written and…
Healthcare Blame Game: Patient Rights Advocate claims its report gets ‘independent review and validation’ – but does it?
Headline: The Sixth Annual Hospital Price Transparency Compliance ReportSource: Patient Rights AdvocatePublished: February 2024 PatientRightsAdvocate.org recently issued its sixth report scoring hospital compliance with federal price transparency regulations, and for the sixth time, its assessment conflicts with CMS’s assessment. I want to focus on a nugget we picked up on in the methodology section of the latest report,…
Healthcare Blame Game: Why CFOs should build media relationships
In a recent episode of HFMA’s “Healthcare Blame Game” podcast, Jim Heffernan, a retired CFO and current CFO emeritus of Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, shared four key pieces of advice for CFOs.
HFMA opens nominations for key volunteer leadership roles
Every year, HFMA seeks volunteers who want to take an active role in leading the financial management of healthcare by serving on a key HFMA advisory council or committee. Now that the Association has grown to more than 100,000 members, there has never been a better time to help shape the future of the healthcare…
AHA’s ‘Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets’ 2023 edition now available
Investment in capital assets is an integral part of a hospital’s strategy to improve the quality and efficiency of its health services. Such investments often seek to anticipate future changes in healthcare delivery and the needs of the community. Developed in partnership with HFMA, the 2023 edition of Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets is a…