It’s time to get lawsuits over medical debt out of the headlines
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer discusses current issues surrounding medical debt.
Opponents of Medicare expansion should focus on pitfalls of proposals
Eye on Washington: Challenges to Medicare expansion and "Medicare for All" proposals should address some of the very real potential pitfalls of the proposal, including their projected price tags.
Vitalware: An all-encompassing, single-platform chargemaster solution
A leading chargemaster company discusses how its technology helps hospitals operate more transparently, price strategically and confidently run a compliant and efficient revenue operation.
Top revenue cycle challenges and opportunities
Important learnings from a September 2019 HFMA study about the impact of EHRs, consumer self-pay and IT budgets on revenue cycle operations.
Pursuing revenue cycle innovation
A roundtable of healthcare financial leaders explores strategies for optimizing the revenue cycle to reduce cost-to-collect, limit revenue leakage and meet patient and payer expectations.
Revenue cycle technology trends
The results of a September 2019 HFMA study about revenue cycle challenges and opportunities and how hospitals and health systems are addressing them.
Revenue Cycle Strategist October 2019
The October issue of Revenue Cycle Strategist features articles on medical debt, robotic process automation, consumerism, patient experience and denials management.
How to get a handle on Medicare bad debt
Medicare bad debt is a significant source of revenue leakage for hospitals and often is not adequately addressed.
Consumer-oriented services necessary for healthcare providers to maintain patient loyalty
Convenience factors, including easy-to-use payment options, have a significant impact on patients’ loyalty to healthcare providers.
Big drop in Medicaid enrollment drives 2018 increase in uninsured rate
In 2018, 1.9 million fewer people were covered by some type of health insurance, and they were most likely former Medicaid enrollees, according to new federal survey data.