How long will employers continue to tolerate healthcare cost growth in excess of inflation?
Employer frustration with high healthcare costs is translating into support for more aggressive governmental intervention in healthcare markets.
Activity-Based Costing: When to Walk and When to Run
A modified approach to activity-based costing can balance an organization’s desire for operational excellence with its need for repeatable, low-maintenance solutions.
The new hfm is (re)designed to help you get what you need faster and easier
A new, next-level design makes hfm easier to read and more useful than ever.
Healthcare finance professionals: Are you ready for the big wave of consumerism and transparency?
Healthcare organizations should avoid going into "protection mode" and actively respond to pressures from government, the private sector and patients to better serve patients while reducing costs of care.
Quality is table stakes, but patient financial experience of care is key to future referrals
A high-quality patient financial experience of care is key to a steady stream of referrals.
Why health plans remain leery of giving quality data to enrollees
Shortcomings in quality data limit its usefulness to enrollees, health plans say.
Many ‘failed’ federal healthcare quality programs need to end, analysts say
Experts on value-based payment say many federal programs have failed to produce results and need to be swept aside.
Fitch warns about a potentially big hit to NFP hospitals from Medicaid payment changes
The credit standing of not-for-profit hospitals could take a hit from proposed changes to aspects of Medicaid financing, according to a rating agency.
In response to providers, CMS offers further specifics about direct contracting
CMS officials further clarified the coming direct-contracting model during a series of discussions with providers.
Not like the others: House Ways and Means surprise bill legislation
Provider friendly House Ways and Means surprise bill draft legislation doesn't rely on a benchmark payment rate like competing versions.