More than 2 years into the pandemic, the issue of deferred care continues to affect the healthcare industry
Concerns about the implications of deferred care continue to grow as healthcare organizations establish their strategies for a post-pandemic landscape.
Reimagine your workforce to help overcome staffing shortages
For revenue-cycle functions, staffing shortage solutions can be found by improving efficiencies through automation and expanding the labor pool with remote and hybrid positions as well as off-shoring partners.
Staff, patients, benchmarks have the attention of rev cycle leaders
5 takeaways from HFMA’s Revenue Cycle Conference
The real reason people don’t get vaccinated for COVID-19? They don’t feel like it.
Vaccination for COVID-19 has been a topic of hot debate, but even among those people who received their initial shots, the uptake on boosters has been underwhelming. On a recent episode of the “Voices in Healthcare Finance” podcast, Jacob Braude, a principal at life sciences consulting firm ZS, discussed what makes people decide to get vaccinated and what drives them away.
Joe Fifer: Revenue cycle workforce shortages: Culture is key
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer offers perspectives on the revenue cycle workforce shortage.
Claims submitted to HRSA’s COVID-19 funds for uninsured and underinsured patients soon won’t be paid
Funds used to reimburse providers for supplying COVID-19-related services to the uninsured and underinsured will expire soon if Congress doesn’t act.
How U.S. healthcare can play a larger role on the world stage
Judy Kuriansky, PhD, a professor of psychology, NGO representative to United Nations and trustee of the United African Congress, shares her insights and experiences from working to improve healthcare equity and access among populations in the world who are “furthest behind,” which is a priority in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Kuriansky describes recent international efforts aimed at promoting the United Nations 2030 Agenda, and she address ways U.S. health systems could play an important role in such efforts.
Providers implement automation and explore staffing options to streamline revenue cycle
In this roundtable, finance leaders discuss tactics they’ve used to implement automated tools and extend their workforce to reduce waste in their revenue cycle processes, aiming to improve patient experience and control costs.
How LifePoint Health revamped its revenue cycle
Executives for the non-urban focused health system wanted to get all of its hospitals using a single revenue cycle management approach.
Revenue Cycle Insights: March 2022
Workforce shortages are affecting revenue cycle functions, and you can learn how executives from Spectrum Health and Stanford Health Care are limiting the damage in the lead story of March's Revenue Cycle Insights.