How to achieve best-in-class capability for value-based risk contracting
Health systems embarking on value-based contracting should give attention to three areas: understanding market profit pools, acknowledging inherent challenges in the health plan market, and developing the key elements that are essential for success.
Information-sharing rule creates new hospital, health plan transparency requirements
Hospitals and health plans will face new patient data transparency requirements in as soon as six months under two new final rules from the federal government.
CDC: Hospitals must screen all ED patients for new coronavirus
New guidance from the CDC explains the steps required of hospital emergency departments when treating patients suspected of having COVID-19.
HFMA’s Consumerism Maturity Model provides an opportunity for healthcare organizations to assess their consumer readiness
Provider organizations can assess and improve their consumerism readiness using HFMA’s Consumerism Maturity Model.
The new hfm is (re)designed to help you get what you need faster and easier
A new, next-level design makes hfm easier to read and more useful than ever.
Health plan-owned PCP clinics steer members to lower-cost sites-of-service
Hospitals and health systems need to be able to deliver high-quality outcomes in a cost-efficient manner to ensure they are not implicitly tiered out of a health plan's network.
Not-for-profit hospital status coming under increasing scrutiny
Despite tax-exempt hospitals providing $95 billion in total benefits to their communities in 2016 alone, it's anticipated that hospitals' tax-exempt status will see additional scrutiny.
The 5 keys leaders need to transform their organization’s culture
More than simply updating office decorations or rewriting a mission statement, transforming a company's culture requires addressing deep-seated assumptions.
HFMA gathering aims to arm CFOs for coming challenges
Inaugural HFMA Financial Sustainability Summit, April 16-17 in Denver, will bring together more than 200 hospital and physician practice CFOs to learn and share strategies.
HFMA and CareCredit conduct survey on consumer-centric strategies being used to drive patient-centric healthcare
Consumerism emerged as a top concern among healthcare executives in a survey conducted jointly by HFMA and CareCredit.