Making Sense of the Skills Gap
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel examines the skills gap from both the employee and employer perspective to get to the root of the issue.
How Accountability Affects Your Success
Joanne Schlosser, FACHE, MBA, PCC, executive and team coach, looks at why leaders need to balance relationships with results.
We Become What We Know
Hilda Villaverde, PhD, writes that no education is ever a waste of time. Whether you're following an academic course of study, a technical track, an internship, volunteering, or acquiring wisdom from day-to-day lessons at work, knowledge collected and applied is time well spent.
Finding Where Your Passion Meets Your Purpose
When HFMA Chair Carol Friesen unveiled her theme, "Where Passion Meets Purpose," at HFMA's Leadership Training Conference in April, Hayley Studer, CPA, vice president of community partnerships for Credit Adjustments Inc., read those words, reflected on her career journey, and realized that she needed to make a big change to fulfill her professional purpose.
3 Steps to Creating a Knowledge Culture in Your Organization
Beth Houck, vice president of client services for SA Ignite, writes that corporate education is critical to creating a continuous learning environment. She provides comprehensive steps to achieve this culture shift.
5 Ways to Integrate Lifelong Learning Into Your Career Path
The pursuit of knowledge is something that Alyssa Gallagher, lead technical accountant for Sharp Healthcare, has always valued. She views education not as something that ended when she graduated from college, but a pursuit that she strives to continue with each passing year.
MIPS: Getting Ready for a New Paradigm in Pay for Performance
Organizations that have not yet considered their strategy for participation in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) must begin to plan now, or risk financial penalties.
Ochsner’s Revenue Cycle Fellowship: An Investment in the Future
Ochsner Health System in Louisiana is working to prepare future healthcare leaders with a revenue cycle fellowship.
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.
Improve Compliance and Revenue by Understanding the Two-Midnight Rule
Edward Hu, MD, president of the American College of Physician Colleges, offers guidance for physicians seeking to better understand the two-midnight rule.