The Healthcare C-Suite of the Future: From AI to ROI–Emerging needs drive demand for new skillsets
Read this report on how healthcare C-suite leaders face growing pressures to adapt to rapid technological advancements and unsustainable costs. AI, innovation, and payer relations are key areas for focus.
Rural Health Transformation Program’s application deadline arrives, bringing states and hospitals a step closer to billions in funding dollars
In the final days before the application deadline for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), states and hospitals were scrambling to present the relevant information to CMS in the best possible light. Nov. 5 is the deadline to for states to apply for a share of the $10 billion that will be made…
The shutdown continues, plus the latest on 340B
HFMA Senior Editor Nick Hut and HFMA Policy Director Shawn Stack discuss the latest in healthcare finance news.
Value-based care adoption grows, but challenges remain
In 2006, two renowned researchers introduced “The Value Equation” for healthcare: Value = Quality/Cost. It was the first step toward bringing the healthcare industry together in acknowledgingtwo of the industry’s ugly truths. Costs of care were outpacing the quality of carereceived, yet the healthcare system was built around a fee-for-service payment modelthat rewarded providers for…
Hospital merger tally increases as organizations come to grips with the policy environment
Hospital merger-and-acquisition (M&A) activity accelerated in Q3 2025, indicating that executive teams are getting a handle on the prospective impact of major healthcare policies. “Now that the One Big Beautiful Bill has passed, hospitals and health systems have more policy clarity to inform their growth strategies,” Anu Singh, managing director at Kaufman Hall, which published…
FastFinance: Good faith estimate rules coming
HFMA’s FastFinance newsletter is now a podcast. Host Rich Daly discusses the most current and relevant healthcare news, delivered in an easily digestible format. Congress is pressing CMS to release long-delayed rules that would implement requirements that providers create good faith estimates for their patients. Also, this week’s Weird Number: As of July, 96.5% of…
Accounts Payable Automation in Action
This report explores the accounts payable (AP) automation opportunity by examining two tools with proven effectiveness and ease of implementation. Download the white paper to uncover these resources.
Rethinking the Agency Model: Building Hospital-Owned, AI-Supported Contracted Workforces
This white paper will help guide hospital leaders through the process of building their own efficient and inexpensive internal contracted workforce.
Inside SRHO’s Flawless Audit: How They Achieved Zero Findings—And How You Can Too
Discover how proactive planning and the right partner can simplify Healthcare Connect Fund audits and reduce financial risk.
Hospitals brace for looming federal cuts in Medicaid and elsewhere
The historic healthcare policy changes — and associated Medicaid cuts — in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act have left it to the states to figure out how to keep their residents insured and healthy with $1 trillion less in federal funding. With impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBBA, including a…