Roll with The Changes
An article that discusses the value of timely, automated business analytics in navigating the financial and operational challenges brought on by the public health crisis.
Rolling with the changes: Healthcare providers need transparent, powerful business intelligence to meet pandemic-induced challenges
Les Rescorl of Sixth Sense Intelligence discusses the need for healthcare providers to have timely, automated, value-added business analytics to be able to succeed in the post-COVID-19 world of healthcare.
Commercial health plans’ value-pay response to pandemic mixed, say providers
Commercial health plans have offered providers in value-based payments some pandemic-related flexibilities but rejected some changes.
News briefs: Trends in hospital volumes and margins, and other forces shaping healthcare finance
Read about the key factors that shaped healthcare finance policy and practice June and July 2020.
How to develop a winning pricing strategy in the post-COVID-19 consumer market
Providers and health plans should prepare for federally imposed price transparency mandates imposed by developing comprehensive pricing strategies tailored to their specific market positions, financials and operational objectives.
News briefs September 2020: Trends in hospital volumes and margins, and other forces shaping healthcare finance
Read about the key factors that shaped healthcare finance policy and practice in August 2020.
Price transparency as a guiding principle: directionally correct
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer offers a perspective on HFMA’s approach to price transparency vis-à-vis the upcoming CMS regulations on payment rate transparency.
Funny the way it is: Reflecting on healthcare industry dislocations
Healthcare leaders can go a long way toward improving the nation's healthcare cost problem by understanding health inequity its origins. Some dislocations have been triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, but others have long existed in the industry.
Telehealth helped chronically ill during pandemic but their access to care worsened: CDC
Many chronically ill sought telehealth care during the pandemic, even as they reported worse care access, according to a CDC survey.
Biohacking: What healthcare finance leaders need to know about this evolving enterprise
Biohacking is an emerging concept in healthcare that may have value in enabling healthcare providers to better manage the costs of care.