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Ask the Experts: Stark Law and Promotion of Services
Our health system has a new obstetrician/maternity group that it wants to promote on our website and through mailings and e-mail campaigns. Are there any Stark Law or anti-kickback issues that we should be aware of?
Ask the Experts: Payer Preference for Imaging Centers
Our hospital is beginning to feel the sting of payers steering their members from scheduled high-end imaging procedures at our facility to free-standing imaging centers. How are other hospitals and health systems responding to or reacting to this practice?
Video: How to Ensure a Clean 340B Audit
Effective 340B compliance requires thinking beyond 340B as a pharmacy program.
Ask the Experts: Contractual Write-Offs
For internal reporting, can underpayments and contractual write-offs be included when reporting uncompensated care?
Ask the Experts: Inpatient Versus Outpatient Health Plan Billing
Is it legal to charge an inpatient for outpatient services provided by another facility?
Research: Hospital Mergers & Acquisitions
A joint study by HFMA and Deloitte explores how hospital merger and acquisition activity has increased significantly in the past decade, driven by the pursuit of economies of scale and the potential for reducing the cost of care.
EY Leader: Executive Experience Session Showcases Potential for Collaboration
Executive Experience attendees at HFMA’s ANI 2017 provided input on four vital issues that need to be addressed when seeking to establish value-based partnerships.
Attendee Feedback: How to Develop Value-Based Partnerships
Executive Experience attendees at HFMA’s ANI 2017 provided input on four vital issues that need to be addressed when seeking to establish value-based partnerships.
Joe Fifer on Consumerism Fatigue
HFMA President and CEO Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, discusses consumerism fatigue and its potential impact on healthcare stakeholders as well as consumers.
Using Physician Assistants Can Save Costs
Healthcare executives responding to a recent survey overwhelming agree that transforming costs is a “significant” or “very significant” need, but more than 50 percent have no cost reduction targets for the next five years or have a goal of 1-5 percent—a range that is far below what will be required to transform cost structures.