HFMA CEO Jordan, healthcare leaders point to urgency of affordability challenges during ViVE conference
There’s an urgency to address healthcare affordability, panelists at a ViVE conference presentation Tuesday, Feb. 24, agreed — and the need for action is driving bold, collaborative ventures among leaders in healthcare, health tech and private equity. “I think the clock’s really ticking for real now,” said Marcus Whitney, founding partner of Jumpstart Health Investors. “I don’t think anyone cares to protect incumbents anymore, so…
Gen AI is coming for medical bills; 3 ways to prepare
Patients are behind one of the latest applications of AI to the healthcare revenue cycle, and they are using it to review their bills. Stories of consumers using ChatGPT or other generative AI tools to trim thousands from their medical bills by questioning charges are appearing in the news and social media. YahooFinance wrote about…
Coding-aware ambient AI gains traction for revenue integrity and compliance
The use of ambient AI offers strong potential for transforming healthcare by automating tasks to reduce documentation time and burnout from time spent on after-hours documentation, according to research by the American Medical Association.[1] A KLAS report indicates that while only a minority of organizations have reached deep adoption (defined as greater than or equal…
Building the right cybersecurity defense takes vigilance and robust governance
In the last two years, more than 800 incidents of unsecured data breaches were reported. Dive into this roundtable as leaders discuss the future of cybersecurity in the healthcare space and how it is evolving.
Operational resilience is the revenue cycle management imperative of the OBBBA era
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has altered Medicaid eligibility in ways hospitals can no longer treat as a background policy issue. Reverification of Medicaid coverage now happens so frequently that patients lose coverage for administrative reasons that have nothing to do with whether they actually qualify. Much of the industry dialogue has centered…
Questions loom over the future of telehealth policy
Federal telehealth policy continues to prove confounding for healthcare providers. The recent 43-day government shutdown marked the first extended period since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic that traditional restrictions on telehealth reimbursement were in place. Medicare waivers of those restrictions helped telehealth utilization surge during the pandemic and remain elevated in the years…
Healthcare Technology, Episode 3: Opportunities in patient monitoring and telemetry
In the final episode of our technology series sponsored by Philips, Erika speaks with Stacy Kelleher from Philips about data opportunities in patient monitoring and how telemetry can be used more effectively.
Reshaping revenue cycle strategy
Dive into this roundtable to read a discussion from a handful of healthcare industry leaders about how they use AI, automation and analytics to streamline revenue cycle operations, improve margins and get ahead of payment challenges.
Healthcare Technology, Episode 2: Helping patients harness their own data
Patients have access to more data than ever, but there can be confusion when they try to interpret it. In this week’s episode, we speak with Tim Church, MD from Wondr Health and Jonathan Henderson from Encore Rehabilitation.
Healthcare Technology, Episode 1: Solving the right problem at the right time
In the first episode of this special series sponsored by Philips, HFMA Senior Editor Erika Grotto talks with Taylor Seale of Epic and Jeff Gautney from Rush University System for Health about planning and prioritizing technology projects.