June 2019

Industry disruption presents opportunities for established healthcare organizations to partner with emerging companies. For that to happen, the entrepreneur says, leaders need to find the right mindset.

Michael Allen, FHFMA, CPA, talks about assuming his role as HFMA’s 2019-2020 National Chair.

Physician leaders and finance leaders can use their respective strengths to complement each other and help each other thrive in a value-based environment.

In a move that could have profound financial implications for hospitals, the 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule adds 17 cardiac procedures to the list of procedures approved by CMS to be performed in ambulatory surgery centers.

By creating a payment plan for patients that makes care more affordable to them, a healthcare provider can promote patients' health be making them less inclined to delay necessary care.

Hospital executives say results of a new HFMA study are true: A range of higher-profile priorities, including simple survival, has kept their organizations from improving their cost-accounting abilities for almost a decade.

Michael Allen, FHFMA, CPA, HFMA’s Chair for FY2019-2020, describes his Chair theme, Dare You 2 Move, challenging healthcare finance leads to move out of their comfort zones so they can grow.

The volumes of patient data healthcare organizations create should help them face their challenges. But in order to use those volumes of data effectively, healthcare organizations need toask the selfish question: What’s in it for me?

Consolidating healthcare organizations should continue to pursue opportunities to take integrated healthcare to new levels of effectiveness.

HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer offers a perspective on the new and traditional opportunities that the HFMA community offers.

A roundtable of senior healthcare financial and pharmaceutical leaders that covers challenges and strategies for improving pharmacy financial performance.

An industry-leading patient financial solutions company details how its credit card solution facilitates patient payment, helping the patient and healthcare organization.

Three HealthTrust leaders talk about the cost and quality advantages of creating a value analysis program and offer strategies for getting started.

Change Healthcare talks about transforming the approach to application programming interfaces (APIs) to deliver them as individualized products that solve healthcare-specific problems.