Cover Story
Incoming HFMA Chair: Healthcare has no option to stand still
At a time when the U.S. healthcare industry faces immense challenges, HFMA incoming Chair Kiran Batheja says mission-oriented leadership is crucial.
Special report
The role of the healthcare CFO is evolving — and so are the skills needed for success.
Expert Reviewed
Success under value-based payment contracts can be elusive for healthcare organizations that have not given sufficient attention to key considerations around risk adjustment (RA).
An initiative by Keck Medicine of USC to transform its finance function offers valuable insights and takeaways for other U.S. health systems.
Columns
HFMA’s 2025-26 Chair Kiran Batheja discusses why he chose “Learn Now” as his Chair theme.
The Trump administration’s cuts to Medicaid are likely to cause millions of people to lose health insurance.
Regular hfm columnist Jill Geisler advocates for leaders to show empathy in how they treat staff in situations requiring downsizing.
In his inaugural Eye on Washington column for hfm, James Mathews hails the strengths of CMS and delineates the three factors that will keep Medicare going strong.
Steven Berger describes how HFMA offers all healthcare finance professionals tremendous opportunities to expand their knowledge and use it to make a difference.
Departments
Region 5 awarded a total of 100 scholarships by early March after the launch of HFMA’s nationwide student scholarship program in June 2024.
As published in the June-July 2025 issue of hfm, this news roundup presents top stories for healthcare finance professionals.
Tammie Jackson, Deepak Sadagopan and Brittany Roth take new positions.
Supplements
Learn how one company optimizes revenue recovery through proactive denial prevention, clean claims strategies and intelligent automation — ensuring faster, more accurate reimbursement.
A recent survey found that 63% of healthcare organizations use artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in the revenue cycle with expectations to see that percentage rise to offset staffing shortages, increase cashflow and generate more revenue.
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.
With ambulatory volumes expected to increase 10% by 2027, labor productivity benchmarking tools can help inform smarter staffing decisions. Learn how to improve staffing and understand the benefits to benchmarking in this article.
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