Finance and Business Strategy

Optimize Patient Payments with a Unified Merchant Services Solution

By using a unified merchant services approach, healthcare organizations can give patients the ability to pay how they want, where they want, and when they want—opening opportunities to optimize revenue streams and cash flow in the process.

Arkady Fridman September 20, 2017

Video: Why Executive Presence Matters

Donde Plowman, executive vice chancellor for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, provides insight into executive presence and how it affects women in the workplace.

HFMA August 24, 2017

Swapping Stories: How Healthcare Finance Professionals Can Be Inspirational Leaders

By harnessing, through sharing, the power of stories about experiences in meeting a dealing with issues and challenges, healthcare finance leaders can begin to find that place where passion meets purpose.

Carol A. Friesen, FHFMA, MPH August 23, 2017

The Upside of Change: The Physician Perspective

The value transformation could disrupt the practice of medicine for the better, from a physician perspective.

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA August 23, 2017

Coming Up for Air: How Healthcare Organizations Should Respond to the Problem of Physician Burnout

Myriad programs and legislative efforts in the ever-changing healthcare landscape have physicians and others in health care weary. 

James H. Landman August 23, 2017

Hoop Dreams: Healthcare Finance Leader Recalls World of Collegiate Basketball

Katie White turned her love of basketball into a full scholarship to college and then a way to help other aspiring athletes.

HFMA August 23, 2017

HFMA MAP Keys and the MAP Awards

HFMA’s MAP Award recognizes healthcare organizations for excellence in meeting industry standard revenue cycle benchmarks, referred to as MAP Keys.

HFMA August 23, 2017

Looking Beyond Cost Control: A New Role for Strategic Healthcare Supply Chain Leaders

Experiences of four healthcare organizations demonstrate the strategic role supply chain leaders can play in helping their organizations perform effectively in a value-based care model.

Michael Schiller August 23, 2017

Consequences of PCI Noncompliance

Healthcare finance leaders should understand that the consequences of noncompliance with the PCI standards for security of credit card information can be severe.

HFMA August 23, 2017

Payment Security and Compliance: A Primer for Healthcare Revenue Cycle Decisionmakers

Compliance with credit card security standards has taken on greater importance for hospitals as with the increased likelihood that patients might use credit cards to cover growing payment obligations imposed by high-deductible health plans.

David King August 23, 2017
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