Deborah Filipek
About the Author
Deborah Filipek is a senior editor at HFMA, with a broad background as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor. Having been with the HFMA for six years, she plays a central role for the Association in ensuring hfm magazine and website content is clean, clear and to-the-point.
Latest Work
Healthcare News of Note: CMS offers new guidance on making healthcare price transparency information searchable
CMS guidance on making price transparency information searchable, a correlation between job loss and nurse suicides and using incentives to move hospitals away from just-in-time PPE inventories are all topics covered in this week’s Healthcare News of Note.
Healthcare News of Note: Healthcare entities are mandating COVID-19 vaccines for staff
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles, including mandated vaccines for healthcare workers, a delay to Medicare payment cuts and the higher costs of ED visits that involve surprise medical bills.
HFMA’s virtual Cost Effectiveness of Health Summit May 6-7 addresses the healthcare industry’s continuous spending growth and explores a more sustainable model
Healthcare leaders will begin collaborating on how to address the industry’s continuous spending growth and work toward a more sustainable future during HFMA's virtual Cost Effectiveness of Health Summit May 6-7.
Healthcare News of Note: Federal bailout money helped some of the nation’s wealthier hospitals prosper despite COVID-19
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles, including wealthier hospitals prospering despite COVID-19, oncologists seeing more new advanced-stage cancer patients and the burden of prior authorizations during COVID.
3 questions with Katie Gilfillan: Why it’s time for the healthcare industry to address cost effectiveness of health
HFMA’s director of professional practice and clinical relationships discusses the importance of the Association’s Cost Effectiveness of Health event.
Healthcare News of Note: Hospitals await disbursement of remaining COVID-19 relief funds
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles, including hospitals waiting on COVID-19 relief funds, HHS postponing implementation of the SUNSET rule and confirmation of a new HHS assistant secretary for health who is the first openly transgender person to be confirmed for a position by the Senate.
Healthcare News of Note: Greater protections for healthcare workers are under consideration
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles, including greater protections for healthcare workers, ECRI’s top 10 patient safety concerns and the lack of prioritization of the medically vulnerable for COVID-19 vaccination.
Healthcare News of Note: Biden administration appears to be well-aligned with all sectors of the industry
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles, including the industry’s alignment with President Biden, why many HHS regulations could be in peril and the effect of vaccines on chronic COVID-19 symptoms.
Healthcare News of Note: Xavier Becerra likely to be confirmed as next U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles, including information on the likely confirmation of Xavier Becerra as HHS secretary, which specialists are seeing an uptick in patients and lingering health issues from COVID-19.
Healthcare News of Note: Halting elective surgeries in early 2020 cost hospitals $22.3 billion
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of articles from the past week, including hospitals’ loss of revenue from halting elective surgeries, what healthcare providers want Biden to focus on and a new survey on physician burnout.