3 contracting strategies to accelerate a COVID-19 financial recovery for providers
Having suffered significant losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers require effective strategies to achieve a more equitable balance with payers, which have actually enjoyed a financial windfall as a result the pandemic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fauci says additional lockdowns’ not needed in response to COVID-19
Anthony Fauci, MD, says states can control the spread of the virus without additional lockdowns, even as some move to reinstitute sharp restrictions on healthcare services.
How to manage risk-based payment in the era of the global pandemic
To succeed with risk-based contracts through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, healthcare organizations require analytic capabilities for modeling the revenue impact of the crisis through all its phases.
Elective surgery volume near normal in late July, analysis finds
Elective surgeries recovered in July following earlier state bans. However, a growing number of states are re-imposing bans amid a COVID-19 resurgence.
Hospitals forecast declining revenues, lower procedure volumes and greater telehealth adoption due to COVID-19
Important learnings from a May 2020 HFMA-conducted survey about the COVID-19 crisis and some of the trends healthcare organizations are seeing.
A surprising analysis around hospital reimbursement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus: What is Joe Biden’s healthcare plan?
Iodine Software's Troy Wasilefsky discusses a recent analysis his company performed around hospital reimbursement. Some of the results may surprise you. Also in this episode, Rich Daly and Chad Mulvany discuss Joe Biden's healthcare plan.