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Is Your Organization Maximizing HCF Funding—and Fully Prepared for an Audit?
Help your organization assess funding performance, identify gaps, and ensure audit readiness to maximize reimbursements and minimize risk with this white paper.
Automated payment reconciliation emerges as critical gap in healthcare revenue cycle
Organizations of all sizes are actively working to improve processes through increased automation, but each market segment has its own challenges. Read this report to discover the findings.
RCM recalibration: Patient financial experience captures leaders’ top focus
A recent survey shows that healthcare finance leaders are shifting their priorities and investment strategies to connect patient loyalty, RCM efficiency and automation into one cohesive strategy for operational resilience.
Revenue cycle as enterprise infrastructure: Building financial resilience in 2026
Healthcare finance leaders are confronting a new reality: Revenue cycle performance is no longer just an operational task — it’s a central driver of financial sustainability and organizational resilience. Rising payer complexity, increasing patient financial responsibility and the persistent pressure of workforce shortages are forcing a strategic reappraisal of how revenue operations are structured and…
From billing to strategy: Elevating the patient financial experience
In 2026, the patient financial experience is no longer a “nice to have.” It is a revenue integrity issue, a trust issue and, increasingly, a competitive differentiator. Patients are carrying a larger share of healthcare costs than ever before. At the same time, their expectations are shaped by digital banking, retail and subscription services. When…
Drive strategic growth with smarter workforce planning
While enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems serve as the backbone for organizational operations, managing transactional and finance-centric processes, human capital management (HCM) systems focus on the employee lifecycle, helping to build trust, boost productivity and empower talent.
How to optimize the revenue cycle workforce in 2026
In 2026, revenue cycle performance is inseparable from workforce design. Health systems are navigating sustained margin pressure, rising patient cost responsibility and escalating payer complexity — all while competing for limited domestic talent. Recent Kaufman Hall National Hospital Flash Reports continue to show margin volatility across U.S. hospitals, with labor costs and payer-related delays remaining…
Healthcare providers seek solutions for growing patient financial burden
According to an HFMA survey conducted on behalf of PayZen, 76% of patient bills are going uncollected. Providers are concerned the number of uninsured patients will increase due to regulatory shifts causing loss of Medicaid coverage. Learn more in this discussion about emerging solutions and strategies.
Coding-aware ambient AI gains traction for revenue integrity and compliance
The use of ambient AI offers strong potential for transforming healthcare by automating tasks to reduce documentation time and burnout from time spent on after-hours documentation, according to research by the American Medical Association.[1] A KLAS report indicates that while only a minority of organizations have reached deep adoption (defined as greater than or equal…
Automating mid-revenue cycle workflows: What to consider
In this HFMA executive roundtable, 11 healthcare revenue cycle and health information management executives share how they’re implementing AI solutions and shifting traditional staffing strategies as these new tools take hold.