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Staff Development
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles: New nurses fill the largest number of shifts, some heart failure patients find the cost of medications unaffordable, and inaccuracies in CMS ...
By Deborah Filipek
Article
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Leadership Skills Development
Candi Powers, the chief revenue cycle officer at Mon Health System, describes how HFMA membership changed the trajectory of her life.
News
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Financial Leadership
New HFMA Chair Aaron Crane spoke about why healthcare stakeholders must ignite the spark to make way for a better system, while a keynote speaker discussed how to channel a warrior spirit.
By Nick Hut
Podcast
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Leadership
Denese Neu discusses how the systems thinking approach can help healthcare organizations organize their health equity and DEI strategies.
Podcast
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Leadership
Tammie Jackson, HFMA's 2021-2022 National Chair, discusses how delaying her tenure due to the pandemic changed the message she wanted to share, how that message was received, and her final thoughts as she winds down her term.
Podcast
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Leadership
Gretchen Berlin, a senior partner in the healthcare practice at McKinsey & Company, discusses the firm's 2021 Women in the Workplace report and related research in the healthcare field.
Blog
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Leadership
Saint Francis set up a fund to help employees and families who were affected by the June 1 shooting that took the lives of four people in an orthopedics clinic on the organization’s flagship campus.
By Nick Hut
Article
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Leadership
Wildfires in the nation’s healthcare system, from misaligned incentives to disparities in health outcomes and care access, have led to devastating consequences, says HFMA Chair Aaron Crane.
By Jeni Williams
Column
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Leadership
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer offers perspectives on solving the nurse staffing crisis.
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
Column
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Leadership
HFMA National Chair Aaron Crane compares our healthcare system to an unmanaged forest and encourages healthcare finance professionals to act to bring about needed change and innovation.
By Aaron R. Crane, FHFMA, CPA, MHA
Column
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Leadership
Hannah Weishalla talks about the Minnesota Chapter’s recent conference held at a business partner’s facility and shares tips for other chapters considering a similar collaboration.
By Crystal Milazzo
Column
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Leadership
Leslie Flake, James Siegel and Brett Tande have new CFO positions. Denise Tobin joins Cascade365, and Dan Moncher retires after 24 years at Firelands Health.
Article
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Leadership
To respond effectively to ongoing disruptions in the nursing workforce, which have been exacerbated by COVID-19, health system finance and nursing leaders need to come together to find a new financial, clinical and operational approach to i...
By Michele Hausman, MBA, RN, Karen Grimley, PhD, MBA, RN, Tammy Wallace, CPA, and Michael D. Busch, FACHE
Blog
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Leadership
Advocates say hospitals and clinicians have a role to play in violence intervention strategies, but federal funding is needed to ensure such measures have maximum impact.
By Nick Hut
Column
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Leadership
Leaders must be prepared to respond to critical situations. Looking to the example currently being set by Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Jill Geisler discusses what leaders need to know and do.
By Jill Geisler
Executive Roundtable
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Staff Development
In this Roundtable, several senior financial leaders discuss how their organizations are handling new and persistent problems and what role technology plays in solving staffing issues.
Column
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Leadership
Adventist Health promotes Todd Hofheins to COO and John Beaman to CFO. Terri Hays, Leon Choiniere and Dan Bugarin also have new jobs, and Dan Moncher has retired.
Column
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Leadership
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer offers perspectives on consumers’ perceptions of value in healthcare.
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
Column
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Leadership
West Health-Gallup recently found only 5% of consumers believe that Americans are receiving high-value healthcare. Joe Fifer says addressing this challenge will require a new mindset and an expanded mission, but he believes healthcare leade...
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
Column
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Leadership
DEI efforts within organizations can result in extra work for key staff. Jill Geisler shares tips for how leaders can ensure this does not become invisible work that imposes an unrecognized burden.
By Jill Geisler
Column
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Leadership
Tammie Jackson believes the healthcare industry’s current workforce challenges are opportunities to redefine workplaces to better attract and retain employees.
By Tammie L. Jackson, FHFMA, MHA, CHFP
Column
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Staff Development
HFMA’s Hudson Valley Chapter has been providing members with Excel training for more than 20 years. The program was so popular, it’s now offered regionwide.
By Crystal Milazzo
Column
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Leadership
Angie Swearingen was promoted to COO at St. Mary’s Medical Center. Richard Chesnos is retiring as CFO of St. Clair Health, and Eric Luttringer will succeed him.
Column
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Leadership
Jill Geisler explains empathetic leadership and its importance for healthcare leaders. She shares ways to cultivate empathy and highlights its potential downside.
By Jill Geisler
Column
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Leadership
HFMA members Paul DeMuro and Angie Swearingen have accepted new positions. HFMA remembers Gary Lampi and Milan “Doc” Barto, two former National Board members.
Column
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Leadership
People defer care for many reasons. HFMA Chair Tammie Jackson shares how to make patients feel welcome and promote health equity, focusing on transgender adults.
By Tammie L. Jackson, FHFMA, CHFP, MHA
Podcast
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Leadership
How fried chicken is doing social good in Ohio, and what that could mean for the healthcare industry
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer interviews Joe DeLoss, a social entrepreneur and the owner of fast casual restaurant Hot Chicken Takeover, about how the healthcare industry can create social good from the inside out.
DeLoss will deliver...
Blog
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Leadership
On a recent episode of the Voices in Healthcare Finance podcast, HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer interviewed Joe DeLoss, a social entrepreneur and owner of Hot Chicken Takeover, a fast casual restaurant with six locations in Ohio. DeLoss w...
By Erika Grotto, CHFP
Blog
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Leadership
Hospitals will be among the potential recipients of federal grants for establishing programs that support the mental health and well-being of healthcare professionals.
By Nick Hut
Podcast
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Leadership
Karin Hurt and David Dye of Let's Grow Leaders discuss how to navigate workplace romances, whether you're a member of a couple or the manager of team members who start dating.
Also in this episode, sponsor Red Dot's CEO Michael Bumann d...
Column
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Leadership
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
Column
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Leadership
Column
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Leadership
Leaders are one of the greatest influences on work-life harmony. Jill Geisler shares how healthcare finance leaders can give their teams the gift of time well spent and create a culture where work-life harmony flourishes.
By Jill Geisler
Column
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Leadership
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer shares a perspective on ways to acknowledge healthcare’s frontline workers as the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic begins.
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
Podcast
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Leadership
Leadership consultant Anton Gunn discusses why succession planning is important not only for C-suite executives but everyone in an organization. He also shares insights about how to train and develop up-and-coming leaders either to take ove...
Column
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Leadership
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer reflects on another challenging year for healthcare.
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
Podcast
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Leadership
Michael Bumann is the founder and CEO of Red Dot, a company that specializes in resolving motor vehicle accident accounts for healthcare organizations, and his history as a firefighter and EMT informs every aspect of his business. In today'...
Column
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Leadership
Many experience higher rates of loneliness and social isolation during the holiday season. Those working in healthcare are in a unique position to identify those at risk and promote health equity.
By Tammie L. Jackson, FHFMA, MHA, CHFP
Column
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Financial Leadership
Blood donations should be a top-of-mind concern for hospital and health system finance leaders given that a steady supply of blood donations is among the most critical lifesaving needs for their organizations.
By Martin H. Bluth, MD, PhD
Column
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Leadership
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer reflects on another challenging year for healthcare.
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
News
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Leadership
HFMA’s new international Membership program reflects the Association’s mission to expand its support of healthcare finance professionals in the international community and to be a participant in the global agenda to improve health for all.
By Deborah Filipek
News
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Leadership
HFMA reached a significant milestone, surpassing 75,000 members in October, after 19 straight quarters of membership growth.
By Brad Dennison
Podcast
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Leadership
Dr. Glenn Hardesty of Texas Health Resources and Stu Schaff of Intentionate Healthcare Advisors discuss how administrative burden deteriorates physician job satisfaction and well being, and how leaders can help.
News
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Financial Leadership
HFMA’s 2021 Annual Conference underscored a healthcare industry at a crossroads amid the lingering COVID-19 pandemic and daunting financial trends.
By Nick Hut
Column
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Leadership
Avoiding difficult conversations can lead to unhealthy organizations. Jill Geisler talks about common ways conversations can derail and how leaders can get them back on track.
By Jill Geisler
News
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Financial Leadership
The pivot point marked by the COVID-19 pandemic is a chance for healthcare leaders to guide the industry in a direction that better serves all demographics, said HFMA National Chair Tammie Jackson.
By Nick Hut
News
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Financial Leadership
The challenges facing the industry are momentous, but healthcare finance professionals should be optimistic about their ability to help find solutions, HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer said during the kickoff session of the 2021 Annual Conf...
By Nick Hut
News
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Leadership
HFMA’s Oregon Chapter produces a regular podcast to keep healthcare finance professionals connected to the Chapter and informed of current healthcare industry issues.
By Crystal Milazzo
News
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Leadership
HRG has appointed HFMA members Mark Bell and Jason Coffin as CFO and COO, respectively. Five other HFMA members have been named as new CFOs for healthcare facilities around the country.
News
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Financial Leadership
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles: Negative impacts of work spur nurses’ plans to leave their jobs, annual healthcare spending is higher than ever for insured individuals, and ...
By Deborah Filipek
Podcast
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Leadership
HFMA's Brad Dennison and Paul Barr discuss Healthcare 2030, a four-part series exploring the challenges and opportunities for CFOs and other healthcare leaders created by the evolving industry, looking ahead to 2030.
Danielle Solomon, n...
Column
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Leadership
Times are turbulent, and people often feel empowered to express their opinions, even in negative ways. Jill Geisler shares things leaders can do to promote civility in the workplace and keep teams working well together.
By Jill Geisler
News
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Staff Development
Learn more about HFMA’s Premium Facilitated Learning — a new line of courses — that combine self-directed study with expert facilitation in this Q&A with HFMA’s Sue Spear, director of Digital Learning and Todd Nelson, director of Partner R...
By Stephani Johnston
Article
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Leadership
A survey conducted by HFMA for the Healthcare 2030 special series shows CFOs as expecting big changes to the hospital and health system operating model.
By Paul Barr
News
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Leadership
Danielle Gori, president of HFMA’s South Carolina Chapter, talks about how the diversity and inclusion initiative came about and the chapter’s plans for it.
By Crystal Milazzo
News
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Leadership
By Crystal Milazzo
Column
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Leadership
HFMA Chair Tammie Jackson urges healthcare finance leaders to think broadly when considering factors that lead to health disparities and finding new ways to promote health equity.
By Tammie L. Jackson, FHFMA, MHA, CHFP
Podcast
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Staff Development
Joyce Fitzpatrick, a nurse and director of the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University and Robyn Begley, CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Le...
Column
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Leadership
The predicted “Great Resignation” is upon us, but there are things leaders can do to both stem the losses and seize the opportunity to become an employer of choice.
By Jill Geisler
Podcast
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Leadership Skills Development
Racial disparities in the healthcare industry have long been an issue, with serious effects on outcomes. In this episode, Dr. Rumay Alexander discusses how the industry can begin to rebuild trust and shares some practical advice about how t...
News
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Staff Development
HFMA’s Annual Conference 2021, which begins Nov. 8, will provide education and networking opportunities for both in-person and virtual attendees.
By Deborah Filipek
Column
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Financial Leadership
HFMA National Chair Tammie Jackson says healthcare finance professionals must take bold steps to address health disparities and social determinants of health.
By Tammie L. Jackson, FHFMA, MHA, CHFP
News
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Leadership
HFMA’s 2021 Leadership Training Conference took place July 25-27 in Orlando. For the first time, chapter leaders could attend either in person or virtually.
By Crystal Milazzo
News
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Financial Leadership
HFMA members Amanda Verner Thompson and Vasanta Pundarika named to ABF Journal’s 2021 Top Women in Asset-Based Lending. Seven HFMA members have new positions.
Article
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Leadership
In recognition of HFMA’s 75th Anniversary, well-known leaders as well as others who’ve worked behind the scenes reflect on their experiences with the Association.
By Crystal Milazzo
News
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Leadership
HFMA announces the winners and runners-up of the Association's Helen Yerger/L. Vann Seawell Best Article Award for outstanding editorial achievement in hfm magazine in fiscal year 2020-2021.
By Deborah Filipek
Column
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Leadership
Romance in medicine refers to the passion reflected in the wonder and optimism with which healthcare’s great visionaries in healthcare explored the mysteries beyond human understanding in their times. It is an important quality that should ...
By Martin H. Bluth, MD, PhD
News
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Financial Leadership
Participation in HFMA volunteer leadership roles offers the opportunity to enhance the benefits, products and services provided to HFMA members and healthcare financial professionals across the country.
Column
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Leadership
Lessons learned during the pandemic can ease the transition back to the office and set up leaders for future success.
By Jill Geisler
Column
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Financial Leadership
Tammie L. Jackson, a VP with TransUnion Healthcare, is HFMA's 2021-22 National Chair. She envisions a brighter future for the healthcare finance industry.
By Tammie L. Jackson, FHFMA, MHA, CHFP
Article
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Leadership
Ben Carter, FHFMA, CPA, COO of Trinity Health, offers advice for healthcare finance and operations leaders based on his experience as a pilot and flight instructor, which helped him make the transition from CFO to COO even in the midst of ...
By Laura Hegwer
News
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Financial Leadership
Iowa HFMA program chairs share how they planned and hosted the Chapter’s first hybrid post-pandemic event, providing attendees the option to attend either in person or virtually.
By Crystal Milazzo
Article
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Leadership
As the healthcare industry and the world at large increasingly focus on issues of social justice, Tammie Jackson on June 1 becomes the first Black person to serve as Chair in HFMA’s 75-year history.
By Nick Hut
How To
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Leadership
To work together effectively, finance and clinical leaders must not only understand but also value and acknowledge the benefits to be gained from their different perspectives on what constitutes success.
By George Mayzell, MD, Steven Berger, FHFMA, and Doug McKinley, PsyD
Column
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Leadership
By linking rules and regulations to principles and purpose, organizations can gain the trust of their employees and the public and establish a reputation for integrity.
By Jill Geisler
News
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Financial Leadership
HFMA’s first Cost Effectiveness of Health Summit drove home the urgency of improving how healthcare dollars are spent.
By Nick Hut
News
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Financial Leadership
HFMA’s First Illinois Chapter teams up with other Region 7 chapters to convert its annual CHFP practicum into a virtual region-wide event.
By Crystal Milazzo
News
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Staff Development
Amy Assenmacher challenges Spectrum Health revenue cycle employees to earn HFMA certification. Peg Burnette and Jeff Hurst selected for new CFO positions.
Column
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Leadership
Michael M. Allen, FHFMA, CPA, reflects on the past two years as his extended term as HFMA's National Chair draws to a close.
By Michael M. Allen, FHFMA, CPA
Column
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Leadership
Outgoing HFMA National Chair Tammie Jackson urges healthcare finance professionals to continue making bold moves toward a brighter, better healthcare industry.
By Tammie L. Jackson, FHFMA, MHA, CHFP
Column
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Financial Leadership
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer reflects on the need to assess cost effectiveness of health through the eyes of care purchasers.
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
Column
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Leadership Skills Development
To boost morale and improve productivity, it’s important for leaders to go beyond words of praise and consider how they can connect with employees on a deeper level.
By Jill Geisler
Article
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Leadership
HFMA remembers two of its founding fathers, and the beginning of it's Chapters.
By Eric C. Reese, PhD
Column
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Leadership
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer urges healthcare leaders to recognize and address the connections between healthcare finance and racial disparities.
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
News
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Leadership Skills Development
A plan foiled by COVID-19 became an educational opportunity for the Metropolitan New York Chapter in late 2020.
By Erika Grotto
Column
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Financial Leadership
HFMA Chair Mike Allen says if we take anything away from how the COVID-19 pandemic has kept us from seeing people and doing things we enjoy, it’s to truly appreciate and savor these precious moments in our lives.
By Michael M. Allen
News
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Staff Development
HFMA member Ronald J. Kintz retires and now teaches part-time at the University of Miami; we remember two members who died in 2020. Other members take on new jobs.
By Erika Grotto
Column
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Staff Development
To achieve substantive change, leaders must ensure diversity, equity and inclusion are pillars of organizational cultures.
By Jill Geisler
Case Study
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Financial Leadership
The efforts of one health system to meet state and federal price transparency regulations shows the benefit of integrating transparency efforts into a broader organizational strategy.
By Elizabeth Barker
Podcast
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Leadership
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer interviews Dr. Zeev Neuwirth about the dangers of fee-for-service and how every stakeholder has a responsibility to move the industry forward.
Article
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Leadership
Paola Turchi has sewn close to 500 masks for community members.
By Erika Grotto, CHFP, CRCR
Article
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Leadership Skills Development
A virtual fundraiser in HFMA’s Central Ohio Chapter turned into more than a one-off event.
By Erika Grotto, CHFP, CRCR
Podcast
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Leadership
Social media can be tricky to navigate. Today, we're talking with Jill Geisler about how to use your social channels for good, and what to consider before you post.
Read Jill's latest Leadership column in hfm magazine for more of her tho...
News
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Leadership
Rick Gundling, HFMA’s senior vice president of professional practice, talks about the Association's education plans for 2021 and comments on some hot
topics in healthcare.
By Brad Dennison
News
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Financial Leadership
HFMA was launched in 1946 as the American Association of Hospital Accountants, and the first issue of what was to become hfm magazine came a year later.
By Eric C. Reese, PhD
Column
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Leadership
HFMA's chair urges healthcare finance leaders to be intentional in encouraging many voices to be heard, recognizing cognitive biases that are misleading and helping guide decisions to the best possible outcome.
By Michael M. Allen, FHFMA, CPA
Column
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Leadership
Leadership of an integrated health system has become an increasingly complex undertaking today because of the many roles a leader must assume.
By Keith D. Moore, MCP
News
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Financial Leadership
To address the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare finance leaders are considering both internal and external solutions, according to recently issued reports.
By Nick Hut
Column
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Financial Leadership
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer reflects on pandemic fatigue and what healthcare leaders can do to support their colleagues through the challenging months ahead.
By Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA