2024-2025
Chief Marketer Award
- Campaign of the Year 2024
Swaay Health
- Website of the Year Award 2024
2023-2024
ASJA Awards (American Society of Journalists and Authors)
B2B Article
- Honorable mention – SDOH: Leader or convener? Hospitals and health systems still struggle with their role, Jeni Williams, author
National Azbees
Best Body of Work by a Designer (finalist)
- Bridging the Payer-Provider Divide special report, December 2024-January 2025 hfm, and 3 bipartisan changes likely in 2025, cover story, October/November 2024 hfm –Brian Goins, designer
Best Body of Work by a Freelancer (winner)
Jeni Williams, author on two special reports — Curing Patient Confusion, May 24, 2024; and Bridging the Payer-Provider Divide, Oct. 24, 2024 — and the following hfm articles:
- Battle of the bots: As payers use AI to drive denials higher, providers fight back
- Incoming HFMA Chair Marc Scher encourages healthcare finance professionals to be more innovative and strategic
- UChicago Medicine grows into role of AI innovator
Best Special Section (Gold)
Jeni Williams, author; Paul Barr, senior editor; and Brian Goins, designer
- Bridging the Payer-Provider Divide report, December 2024-January 2025 hfm
Best Online Industry Coverage (Silver)
Nick Hut, senior editor, for online articles, and Rich Daly, senior editor, for online stories in HFMA’s newest newsletter, FastFinance
Nick Hut’s articles are:
- Closures of Walmart’s health centers reflect the widespread financial constraints in U.S. healthcare
- Ramifications of a proposed rule to halt credit reporting of medical debt
- An eventful period for healthcare policy looms as Trump and GOP members of Congress prepare to govern
Rich Daly’s articles are:
- 4 bipartisan healthcare policy changes are likely in 2025 (Sept. 20, 2024)
- Medicare Advantage risk payment soars as hospitals left behind (Nov. 18, 2024)
- Supplemental Medicaid payments drive hospitals to seek out enrollees as patients (Nov. 5, 2024)
Overall Excellence – Magazine of the Year (Honorable Mention)
Print – Industry News Coverage (Bronze):
- Nick Hut, senior editor, for articles including “Reimagining charity care,” May 2024 hfm; “Closures of Walmart’s health centers reflect the widespread financial constraints in U.S. healthcare,” June 2024 hfm; “Ramifications of a proposed rule to halt credit reporting of medical debt,” August-September 2024 hfm; and “An eventful period for healthcare policy looms as Trump and GOP members of congress prepare to govern,” December 2024/January 2025 hfm
Opening Page/Spread – Illustration (Silver):
- Martin Gee, illustrator, and Linda Chandler, designer, for Battle of the bots – As payers use AI to drive denials higher, providers fight back,” April 2024 hfm
Podcast (Silver):
- Erika Grotto, podcast producer and host, and Linda Chandler, sound engineer, for HFMA’s Voices in Healthcare Finance podcast, What the Change Healthcare cyberattack means for the future of the industry, March 25, 2024
Finalist – National Overall Excellence – Magazine of the Year – hfm
National Gold Award for Print – Healthcare Industry News Coverage
- How healthcare providers can break down barriers to effective data governance
- Monument Health revamps its revenue cycle structure for the benefits of patients and organizations
- 5 issues that are keeping healthcare compliance professionals up at night
- 10 vital responses to healthcare disruption
- Healthcare labor union activity gains steam: the consequences for hospitals and health systems
National Gold Award – News Analysis
National Bronze Award
National Bronze Award – All Content Regular Column – Jill Geisler
National Silver Award – All Content Regular Column – David Johnson
- AI and the rise of human-machine collaboration in healthcare
- Right-sizing physician training? The case for surgical mechanics
Regional Azbee
Regular Column (Gold)
- GoFundMe helps some pay for healthcare, but it’s an awful solution, April 2024 hfm; and “Walmart Health’s demise is emblematic of the nation’s primary care conundrum,” August-September 2024 hfm – David Johnson
Special Section (Gold)
- Bridging the Payer-Provider Divide – Jeni Williams, author, and Paul Barr, senior editor
Podcast (Gold)
- HFMA’s Voices in Healthcare Finance podcast, What the Change Healthcare cyberattack means for the future of the industry – Erika Grotto, podcast producer and host, and Linda Chandler, sound engineer
Regular Column (Silver)
- 8 proactive ways to keep your top performers engaged and How to give feedback to your boss – Jill Geisler
Design – Opening Page Spread – Illustration (Silver)
- Battle of the bots – As payers use AI to drive denials higher, providers fight back – Martin Gee, illustrator, and Linda Chandler, designer
Opening Page/Spread – Photo (Silver)
- Always moving forward – Navigating tough terrain, June-July 2024 hfm – Marshall Clarke, photographer
Print – Industry News Coverage (Silver)
- Nick Hut, senior editor, hfm (See national award above for details.)
Online Single Topic (Silver)
- Cyberattack on Change Healthcare brings turmoil to healthcare operations nationwide, Feb. 25, 2024 to July 29, 2024 – Nick Hut
Online Industry News Coverage (Silver)
- Nick Hut, senior editor, for online articles, and Rich Daly, senior editor, for stories in HFMA’s newest online newsletter, FastFinance
Print – Feature Article (Bronze)
- Jeni Williams, author, Martin Gee, illustrator, and Linda Chandler, designer, for “Battle of the bots – As payers use AI to drive denials higher, providers fight back,” April 2024 hfm
Thought Leadership (Bronze)
- It is time to move past denying the perfect storm facing U.S. healthcare, October-November 2024 hfm – Susan Dentzer
Publication Design (Bronze)
- Brian Goins and Linda Chandler, designers, for October/November 2024 hfm and December 2024-January 2025 hfm
Online Web Feature Series – Special Report (Bronze)
- “Curing Patient Confusion,” May 24, 2024, and “Bridging the Payer-Provider Divide,” Oct. 24, 2024
Regional Gold Award – Online State of the Industry
Regional Gold Award – Print Industry News Coverage
- How healthcare providers can break down barriers to effective data governance
- Monument Health revamps its revenue cycle structure for the benefits of patients and organizations
- 5 issues that are keeping healthcare compliance professionals up at night
- 10 Vital Responses to Healthcare Disruption
- Healthcare labor union activity gains steam: The consequences for hospitals and health systems
Regional Silver Award – Online Industry News Coverage
- No Surprises Act litigation update: QPA methodology deemed illegal as Texas Medical Association wins in court again (updated)
- CMS pressures states to restore Medicaid coverage for some beneficiaries who have been disenrolled
- Hospitals push back on Senate report that calls out lack of spending on charity care
- Amid positive signs financially, hospitals continue to grapple with high costs in labor and other areas
- Medicare’s final $9 billion remedy plan for 340B providers doesn’t address hospitals’ key concerns
- With a new rule, CMS looks to crack down on states’ Medicaid disenrollment processes
Regional Bronze Award – DEI
Regional Bronze Award – How to
Regional Gold Award – News Analysis
Regional Gold Award – Q&A
Regional Silver Award – Regular Column – David Johnson
- AI and the rise of human-machine collaboration in healthcare
- Right-sizing physician training? The case for surgical mechanics
Regional Bronze Award – Regular Column – Jill Geisler
Regional Silver Award – Design
Regional Silver Award – Podcast
Neal Awards
Best Single Article
- Battle of the bots — As payers use AI to drive denials higher, providers fight back,” April 2024 hfm – Jeni Williams, author, and Linda Chandler, designer
Best Podcast
Erika Grotto, podcast producer and host, and Linda Chandler, sound engineer, for three episodes of Voices in Healthcare Finance:
- Saying goodbye to the BMI, June 17, 2024
- What does the Change Healthcare cyberattack mean for the future of the industry, April 1, 2024
- Improving diversity in clinical trials, Sept. 10, 2024
Best Podcast
Erika Grotto and Brad Dennison, cohosts, for two episodes of Healthcare Blame Game:
- Patient Rights Advocate’s distortion of price transparency regulations and data, and the ad campaign that’s catching attention, Feb. 5, 2024
- The crumbling wall between journalism & advocacy, and what media and lawmakers don’t understand about hospital finances, Aug. 19, 2024
Regular Commentary
Susan Dentzer, MS, author, for three commentaries:
- Why we have reached a tipping point on pharmaceutical spending, February 2024 hfm
- Why the Medicare physician fee schedule is sheer madness, May 2024 hfm
- It is time to move past denying the perfect storm facing U.S. healthcare, October/November 2024 hfm
Finalist Best Industry Coverage – Value-based care
Finalist Best Commentary by a group of columnists:
- Is consolidation in healthcare the work of modern-day robber barrons? – Susan Dentzer
- Right-sizing physician training: The case for surgical mechanics – David Johnson
- How healthcare is inextricably linked to homelessness – Ken Perez
2022-2023
AM&P EXCEL Awards
- EXTRA! Award for Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives for the Voices in Healthcare Finance podcast: How avoiding an awkward waiting room conversation can contribute to better health among transgender people.
- Gold EXCEL Award JOURNALS (General Excellence) Q4 hfm: October, November, Winter 2022-23
- Bronze EXCEL Award JOURNALS (Design Excellence) hfm Q4
- Silver EXCEL Award MAGAZINES (Feature Article) Healthcare’s cybersecurity stakes reach alarming level
- Bronze EXCEL Award (Feature Article) Inflation rattles hospital supply chain and labor pool with no end in sight
- Gold EXCEL Award DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES (Other) Voices in Healthcare Finance: How avoiding an awkward waiting room conversation can contribute to better health among transgender people
- Bronze EXCEL Award MAGAZINES (Column) How inclusive leaders protect against ‘invisible work’
National Azbee Awards 2023
- National Award Finalist – Magazine of the Year – hfm
- National Bronze Award – Podcast – The real reason people don’t get vaccinated for COVID-19? They don’t feel like it.
Regional Azbee Awards 2023
- National Award Finalist – Magazine of the Year – hfm
- Regional Bronze Award – State of the Industry – Restoring Trust in Healthcare
- Regional Silver Award – Feature story: Healthcare’s cybersecurity stakes reach alarming levels
- Regional Gold Award – Regular column – Jill Geisler Empathetic leadership: What it is and why it’s important for healthcare leaders and How inclusive leaders protect against ‘invisible work’
- Regional Bronze Award – Regular column – David Johnson Rewiring healthcare’s smartest professionals (Hint: It’s not physicians) and Pizza, productivity and the impact of inflation on healthcare finance
- Regional Silver Award – Voices in Healthcare Finance Podcast: The real reason people don’t get vaccinated for COVID-19? They don’t feel like it.
- Regional Bronze Award – Voices in Healthcare Finance Podcast: How avoiding awkward waiting room conversations can contribute to better health among transgender people
2022 – 2021
National Azbee Awards
- National Silver Award – Regular column – Jill Geisler
(10 or more issues per year): 6 things leaders can do to foster civility in the workplace and 9 ways difficult conversations go south and how to keep that from happening hfm November and hfm Winter 2021-22 - National Bronze Award – Magazine/Newspaper Design – hfm
- Summer 2021 (Serendipity cover story) and September 2021 (75th Anniversary cover story)
- National Award Finalist – Online – Online State of the Industry
Regional Azbee Awards
- Regional Gold – Regular column – Jill Geisler – (10 or more issues per year):
- 6 things leaders can do to foster civility in the workplace and
- 9 ways difficult conversations go south and how to keep that from happening hfm November and hfm Winter 2021-22
- Regional Silver Award – Feature – Nick Hut –
- Regional Silver Award – Magazine/Newspaper Design
- Summer 2021 (Serendipity-Tammie Jackson)
- September 2021 (75th Anniversary)
- Both issues as one submission
AM&P EXCEL – Awards
- Gold EXCEL Award – Pandemic Response Feature – Winter 2021-22 Soaring Labor Costs Test Providers
- Silver EXCEL Award – Magazine Feature Article – Winter 2021-22 Soaring Labor Costs Test Providers”
- Gold EXCEL Award – Podcast Single Episode: I’m just glad I brushed my hair today. The challenges, and some strategies, for working moms during a global pandemic
- Bronze EXCEL Award – DEI Initiatives Other (Podcast): Dr. Rumay Alexander, a nursing educator at UNC-Chapel Hill and leader of diversity initiatives, discusses why ‘checking the box’ on diversity is not enough
Neal Awards
- Finalist Best Series – Revenue less than $3M – Healthcare 2030 Volume 1: CFO of the Future, Workforce of the Future, The Future of Consumer Expectations and The Future of Strategic Investment
- Finalist Best Podcast – Revenue less than $3M – Voices in Healthcare Finance podcast I’m just glad I brushed my hair today
2020 – 2021
National Azbee Awards
- National Gold Award – Print Feature
(10 or more issues per year): Healthcare organizations prepare for sicker patients in 2021 due to deferred care, the hfm Winter 2020-21 cover story. - National Silver Award – Q&A: Hard truths about the state of the healthcare industry, the hfm January 2020 cover story.
- National Silver Award – Magazine/Newspaper Redesign: January 2020 issue of hfm,
- National Bronze Award – Podcast: The “Voices in Healthcare Finance” episode, Election special: As the votes are tallied, we look at what the possible outcomes mean for healthcare.
- The Stephen Barr Award, which recognizes the best article across all feature writing categories, was presented to Rich Daly, then a senior editor at HFMA, for his cover story Healthcare organizations prepare for sicker patients in 2021 due to deferred care.
Regional Azbee Awards
- Regional Gold Award – Print Feature: Healthcare organizations prepare for sicker patients in 2021 due to deferred care, Winter 2020-21 hfm
- Regional Gold Award – Podcast: Election special: As the votes are tallied, we look at what the possible outcomes mean for healthcare
- Regional Silver Award – Q&A: Hard truths about the state of the healthcare industry, January 2020 hfm
- Regional Silver Award – Magazine/Newspaper Redesign: January 2020 hfm.
- Regional Bronze Award – Front Cover Design: Directing innovation in the supply chain, November 2020 hfm
- Regional Bronze Award – Podcast: Telehealth opportunities in oncology, and Stever Robbins shares the secret to tackling email overload
AM&P EXCEL Awards
- Gold EXCEL Award – Digital Media – Podcast: Election special: As the votes are tallied, we look at what the possible outcomes mean for healthcare
- Gold EXCEL Award – Magazine – Redesign: hfm Winter 2020-21 issue
- Silver EXCEL Award – Journals – Design Excellence: hfm Q4 2020 editions
- Silver EXCEL Award – Journals – General Excellence: hfm Q4 2020 editions
- Bronze EXCEL Award – Magazines – Design Excellence: hfm Q4 2020 editions
