Advancing Healthcare Access
About this report Throughout the United States, hospitals and health systems continue to explore strategies to address and expand health access. Effective health access strategy is achieved by ensuring that all individuals have the opportunity to achieve optimal health through standard business processes that are clear, accessible and inclusive. This approach fosters a healthcare environment…
How to develop a playbook to provide patients with timely access to care
If you reviewed the new Vizient/Kaufman Hall 2025 Trends Report, Strategy is (finally) back in the driver’s seat, you might have noticed one startling data point: A 1% increase in “loyal” patients (that is, patients who spend at least three quarters of their healthcare dollars within one health system) can yield a $40 million revenue…
The IPPS proposed rule, and tackling charge capture issues
Nick Hut and Shawn Stack discuss the proposed rule for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System. Later, Taylor Searfoss, a vice president at Ni2, an Infinx company, discusses challenges in charge capture.
Leading through the reset: 8 implications of the VC market contraction for healthcare leaders
Healthcare executives face a stark new reality in the digital health landscape. During and immediately after the COVID-19-pandemic, healthcare technology came to be seen as a panacea for addressing the systemic flaws in our delivery system. This perception spurred an explosion of venture capital (VC) financing and digital adoption: This collective momentum pushed VC funding…
How healthcare organizations can build resiliency and drive growth in a challenging financial environment
Dive into this roundtable featuring five healthcare revenue cycle management executives who share their strategies for building and maintaining financial resiliency including investing in smarter technologies to elevate patient experience, capturing charges and streamlining operations.
News Briefs: Dr. Oz describes changes he would bring to Medicaid, Medicare Advantage
During his Senate confirmation hearing for the post of CMS administrator, Mehmet Oz, MD, was not asked about his past endorsement of a Medicare Advantage (MA) for All model, in which MA would expand to cover most Americans. He did sound willing to take action against MA insurers that allegedly overcharge the government through methods…
With finances more stable, healthcare CFOs eye growth opportunities
Even with lingering financial constraints, healthcare CFOs see room for initiatives that will help their organizations enhance revenue and perhaps even profitability. “We’re finally in that post-pandemic phase in the sense that organizations are starting to see margins stabilize,” said Alina Henderson, vice president for healthcare solutions with Strata Decision Technology. In Strata’s survey (registration…
Strata Decision Technology helps healthcare organizations make informed decisions
Find out how one company provides more than 750 healthcare organizations with supportive tools and partnership to build success around stakeholders, strategy, leaders and so forth.
How 2 regions increased provider leader attendance at their symposium
Leadership of the January 2025 HFMA Western region symposium, held in Las Vegas, credits scholarships and peer-to-peer outreach for increasing attendance at the event by more than 10% in two years. Event leaders engaged 14 HFMA chapters across regions 10 and 11 to establish a planning strategy. Keys to the symposium’s success were prioritizing provider…
David Johnson: A case study in today’s revenue cycle dystopia
Vendor pronouncements that AI technologies can transform the healthcare revenue cycle are commonplace and overblown. While both health systems and suppliers want to believe that AI can be their savior, there are limits to how it can improve payment mechanics between commercial health insurers and providers. No revenue cycle company flew closer to the sun…