Contemplating the Personal Side of Healthcare Integration
When considering a merger or affiliation, healthcare leaders can examine the proposal from a personal vantage point, as if the discussions of the transaction were a dialogue between individuals.
Expanding the Continuum of Care
Social determinants of health are becoming increasingly relevant to healthcare stakeholders as the industry transitions to population health management, writes Joseph J. Fifer, president and CEO, HFMA.
Time for Hospitals to Pursue a ‘Nip and Tuck’ Chargemaster Pricing Strategy?
Hospitals should balance their concern about achieving the margins they require to accomplish their missions with the need to maintain defensible pricing in an environment of increasing healthcare price transparency.
Swapping Stories: How Healthcare Finance Professionals Can Be Inspirational Leaders
By harnessing, through sharing, the power of stories about experiences in meeting a dealing with issues and challenges, healthcare finance leaders can begin to find that place where passion meets purpose.
Coming Up for Air: How Healthcare Organizations Should Respond to the Problem of Physician Burnout
Myriad programs and legislative efforts in the ever-changing healthcare landscape have physicians and others in health care weary.
The Challenges of “Repeal and Replace”
Despite the success of the “repeal and replace” platform during election season, politics and numbers are getting in the way of Republican efforts to get rid of the Affordable Care Act.
The Opioid Funding Controversy: A Portent of the Upcoming Bipartisan Healthcare Reform Debate
The continuing efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act could open doors for advocacy groups to revisit aspects of the legislation they want to change.
Public Health Emergencies: Is Health Care Ready to Respond?
Healthcare organizations that prepare for natural and man-made disasters can help manage the inevitable.
The Abuse and Misuse of Observation Services
Lack of limitations on observation status has led to confusion and increased expense among patients.
Closing Health Care’s Value Gap
To ensure current and future success, healthcare providers must take deliberate action to bridge the gap between volume-based payment and value-based payment.