Contemplating the Personal Side of Healthcare Integration
When considering a merger or affiliation, healthcare leaders can examine the proposal from a personal vantage point, as if the discussions of the transaction were a dialogue between individuals.
A Physician’s Guide to Financial Management Basics
Being able to analyze an income statement can help physician leaders identify what actions to take when variances occur. Similarly, knowing how to make a business case can help physician leaders secure staff or equipment they may need for a particular initiative.
Select Healthcare Financial Management Terms
Break even Analysis (BE) Technique for calculating the volume required for a specific service where expenses equal revenue generated. Charges (Gross Charges) Billed amount
Connecting Clinical and Community Resources
In the era of population health management, healthcare organizations should address social determinants of health by implementing programs both within the organization and in collaboration with community partners.
HFMA Executive Roundtable: Implications of Value-Based Payment for Revenue Cycle Management
As organizations delve into value-based arrangements, they are modifying revenue cycle operations to accommodate this new type of payment, which can be challenging. In this roundtable, several financial leaders discuss how they are readying their revenue cycles for value-based payment while continuing to support fee-for-service.
How to Optimize Ambulatory Care
Leaders from across the healthcare continuum describe how making strategic improvements to an ambulatory platform can boost organizations both financially and operationally.
Healthcare Real Estate Strategies That Enhance Value
Value-based care has altered healthcare delivery, leading to new real estate strategies that include building outpatient centers or micro-hospitals that are easier for patients to access.
Expanding the Continuum of Care
Social determinants of health are becoming increasingly relevant to healthcare stakeholders as the industry transitions to population health management, writes Joseph J. Fifer, president and CEO, HFMA.
Optimize Patient Payments with a Unified Merchant Services Solution
By using a unified merchant services approach, healthcare organizations can give patients the ability to pay how they want, where they want, and when they want—opening opportunities to optimize revenue streams and cash flow in the process.
A Monthly Video with HFMA’s Joe Fifer
HFMA President and CEO Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, discusses the advantages of value transformation through the eyes of physicians.