Brad Dennison

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Brad Dennison

Vice President of Content & Voice

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Ahead of national launch, public comments invited for U.S. Healthcare Consumer Vitals Tracker

Our nation’s healthcare system is in serious condition and heading toward critical condition, according to the newly developed U.S. Healthcare Vitals Tracker. Designed to measure and monitor our healthcare system’s affordability and capacity to meet present and future service demands, the Vitals Tracker comprises 25 well-known and internationally accepted metrics under the twin umbrellas of national health…

Brad Dennison July 16, 2025

Ahead of national launch, public comments invited for U.S. Healthcare Consumer Vitals Tracker

Our nation’s healthcare system is in serious condition and heading toward critical condition, according to the newly developed U.S. Healthcare Vitals Tracker. Designed to measure and monitor our healthcare system’s affordability and capacity to meet present and future service demands, the Vitals Tracker comprises 25 well-known and internationally accepted metrics under the twin umbrellas of national health…

Brad Dennison July 16, 2025

HFMA launches FastFinance as a new member benefit for healthcare finance executives

In 2024, HFMA’s award-winning editorial team set out to engineer a weekly newsletter product exclusively aimed at busy hospital and health system CFOs. Since launching the pilot in November, it has quickly gained a following among CFOs and other provider executives. In fact, in a recent survey of participating CFOs: HFMA’s FastFinance is written and…

Brad Dennison May 9, 2025

Healthcare Blame Game: Patient Rights Advocate claims its report gets ‘independent review and validation’ – but does it?

Headline: The Sixth Annual Hospital Price Transparency Compliance ReportSource: Patient Rights AdvocatePublished: February 2024 PatientRightsAdvocate.org recently issued its sixth report scoring hospital compliance with federal price transparency regulations, and for the sixth time, its assessment conflicts with CMS’s assessment. I want to focus on a nugget we picked up on in the methodology section of the latest report,…

Brad Dennison March 14, 2024

Healthcare Blame Game: Why CFOs should build media relationships

In a recent episode of HFMA’s “Healthcare Blame Game” podcast, Jim Heffernan, a retired CFO and current CFO emeritus of Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, shared four key pieces of advice for CFOs.

Brad Dennison December 13, 2023

HFMA opens nominations for key volunteer leadership roles

Every year, HFMA seeks volunteers who want to take an active role in leading the financial management of healthcare by serving on a key HFMA advisory council or committee. Now that the Association has grown to more than 100,000 members, there has never been a better time to help shape the future of the healthcare…

Brad Dennison October 4, 2023

AHA’s ‘Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets’ 2023 edition now available

Investment in capital assets is an integral part of a hospital’s strategy to improve the quality and efficiency of its health services. Such investments often seek to anticipate future changes in healthcare delivery and the needs of the community. Developed in partnership with HFMA, the 2023 edition of Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets is a…

Brad Dennison September 14, 2023

Healthcare Blame Game: How news outlets mishandled a medical debt study

Brad Dennison is a 25-year veteran of the newspaper industry. He served 15 years as the top news executive for multiple national organizations and led thousands of journalists across the U.S., including investigative teams. He’s also a past board member of the Associated Press Media Editors, where he was elected national chair. Dennison joined HFMA…

Brad Dennison April 3, 2023

Healthcare Blame Game: How Kaiser Health News mistook policy for practice in hospital collections report

Brad Dennison is a 25-year veteran of the newspaper industry. He served 15 years as the top news executive for multiple national organizations and led thousands of journalists across the U.S., including investigative teams. He’s also a past board member of the Associated Press Media Editors, where he was elected national chair. Dennison joined HFMA…

Brad Dennison March 14, 2023

HFMA membership exceeds 75,000 in the year of its 75th anniversary

HFMA reached a significant milestone, surpassing 75,000 members in October, after 19 straight quarters of membership growth.

Brad Dennison November 29, 2021

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