HFM Magazine: July 2018

Optimizing Care Delivery Through Perioperative Value-Based Care

A focus on value during perioperative care can result in better financial and clinical performance.

Zeev Kain, MD, MBA, FAAP June 26, 2018

Optimizing Physician Referrals: A Key to Successful Population Health Management

Providers should focus on improving quality, reducing costs, and delivering a positive patient experience to stage a high-functioning physician referral network.

Clive Fields, MD June 26, 2018

Yet One More Legal Attack by Republicans on the ACA

Arguing that the removal of the insurance mandate means Affordable Care Act is no longer a tax, the DOJ has now challenged its constitutionality in court. The author also discusses some of the likely outcomes, depending on the court’s decision.

Gail R Wilensky, PhD June 26, 2018

Rededicating Ourselves to Building a Better Future

HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer suggests solutions to healthcare finance leaders such as helping shape change, rather than passively observing it, or finding other ways to transition in the industry to avoid change fatigue.

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA June 26, 2018

Fostering Innovation in Healthcare Finance

HFMA's 2018-19 Chair, Kevin Brennan, explains that fostering innovation while also maintaining daily operations is a challenge, but that when innovation starts at the top it can grow a culture where change is not feared.

Kevin Brennan, FHFMA, CPA June 26, 2018

Empowering Physicians to Become Stewards

Texas hospitals are providing physicians with a tool that gives them greater insight into the costs and risks associated with the care they provide, enabling them to lead the way to achieving the goals of value-based care.

Stephen Sibbit, MD June 26, 2018

Cedar: Reimagining the Patient Financial Experience

Cedar’s CEO and co-founder tackles the topic of patient payment and the importance of having an innovative patient financial management system. 

HFMA June 22, 2018
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