hfm April-May 2025

The early impact of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss has hit the surgery suite hard, but the drugs’ likely long-term impact remains uncertain.

Hospitals and health systems can cut financial losses on employed providers by replicating the key features of a proven model — the physician-owned multispecialty group.

HFMA Chair Marc Scher says finance leaders can successfully meet today’s tremendous challenges by keeping an always-forward mindset.

Regular hfm columnist Jill Geisler acknowledges that personality assessments can be useful but never for determining whether people are leadership material.

The rise and fall of the company Olive AI is a cautionary tale for both buyers and sellers of revenue cycle management services.

President Trump’s health policy will be driven by Congress and his health appointees and will bring uncertainty and lively debates.

Aspiring finance leaders can benefit from understanding how Robin Damschroder’s role at Henry Ford Health has expanded over the years.

As published in the April-May 2025 issue of hfm, this news roundup presents top stories for healthcare finance professionals.

Five HFMA members have recently advanced to CEO and CFO leadership positions in healthcare.

HFMA’s June 2025 Annual Conference aims to empower healthcare finance leaders in advancing of affordable and sustainable healthcare.

The HFMA Western Region Symposium uses scholarships to boost attendance of healthcare provider finance leaders.

Read this executive roundtable to takeaway how several healthcare finance professionals currently use both automation and technology as a holistic solution within revenue cycle, benefitting their staff and recruiting new hires, while also reducing workloads.

Find out how one company provides more than 750 healthcare organizations with supportive tools and partnership to build success around stakeholders, strategy, leaders and so forth.

In this roundtable, industry leaders discussed their experiences with pre-bill automation in the revenue cycle and how they applied technology to save time, reduce errors, and improve revenue integrity and financial performance in the billing process. 

Read this roundtable to takeaway tips from several industry leaders who helped deliver successful digital transformation to their own organizations by evaluating staff, processes and technology.

Dive into this roundtable featuring five healthcare revenue cycle management executives who share their strategies for building and maintaining financial resiliency including investing in smarter technologies to elevate patient experience, capturing charges and streamlining operations.

Read this roundtable to gain insight from several industry leaders who discussed how the right AI technology can free clinicians to focus on high-value work and enable healthcare organizations to accelerate productivity, data accuracy and financial return. 

Read this discussion from several industry leaders on how to implement solutions for today’s top revenue cycle challenges to help prevent delays in care and payment, thereby improving outcomes for both patients and providers.