Navigating the Shift to Value-Based Care: Financial Strategies for a Changing Reimbursement Landscape
Download this white paper to understand how healthcare finance leaders can navigate the shift to value-based reimbursement by evaluating financial impacts, managing contracts, and using data-driven insights to track performance and risk.
A key antitrust case against providers, plus the marriage of patient experience and AI
Nick Hut and Shawn Stack discuss the latest in healthcare finance news. Erika Grotto talks with Jonathan Wiik of FinThrive about how a great patient experience and AI can go together. Also in this episode, a fond farewell to Shawn as he departs the podcast and HFMA.
Leveraging Data and Benchmarking to Optimize Healthcare Telecom Budgets
This guide shows how to turn telecom expense management (TEM) into a strategic advantage using data-driven auditing, usage analysis, and benchmarking to uncover inefficiencies and recover costs.
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.
News Briefs: Relief might be fleeting for healthcare after Supreme Court’s decision on tariffs
The Supreme Court’s Feb. 20 decision striking down most of the Trump administration’s tariff policy negated many of the tariffs that have affected healthcare and other industries since beginning in August 2025. The ruling leaves in place sector-specific tariffs such as increased levies on imports of steel and aluminum, for which the tariff has been…
Health system PBM ownership model shows benefits amid reform pressure
Amid heightened scrutiny of the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) model, one health system is touting an alternative approach. St. Louis-based SSM Health is co-owner of Navitus Health Solutions, a PBM with 18 million members among 800 clients across all 50 states. Navitus has a niche that helps it optimally serve customers while bolstering the operation…
CMS’s claims attachments rule sets deadline to shift to full electronic submission
March 30 update CMS sent out an email announcing a town hall to discuss the new final rule. The town hall takes place Tuesday, March 31 between 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Eastern time. No registration is required. The town hall can be joined at this Teams link. As there will not be a live…
Getting more bang for the buck from AI: Insight from Privia Health
An extensive search for the right AI implementation partners is paying off for Privia Health Group in Arlington, Virginia, an HFMA MAP Award winner that boasts positive results from incorporating AI in its revenue cycle. Privia, a publicly traded physician management company, has installed or will be installing AI in a variety of applications. Vendors…
2026 MAP Awards presented to 20 organizations for revenue cycle performance
CHICAGO (March 18, 2026) – The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) announced the 2026 winners of the MAP Award for High Performance in Revenue Cycle, including three integrated delivery systems, eight hospital systems, four individual hospitals, two critical access hospitals and three physician practices. “We want to congratulate these award winners for their dedicated efforts to strengthen…
Two Years. $78 Million Saved. A New Standard in Healthcare Real Estate.
Health systems are facing tighter margins, but better real estate portfolio management can drive significant savings. Download this white paper to learn how to implement digital transformation in your healthcare organization.