HFMA chapters and regions lauded at 2025 Success Awards celebration
Open to all members this year, HFMA’s 2025 Leadership Summit gathered over 650 participants, including chapter and regional volunteers and others in Nashville, Tenn., May 4-6. Attendees participated in content tracks from effective communication skills to strategies for building innovative and high-performing teams. They also celebrated the 2025 Success Award recipients. General session speakers included…
A farewell, with reflections on a 50-year career in healthcare finance
This month marks the 50th anniversary of my start in the healthcare industry. In August 1975, I began a job with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York (now known as Empire Healthcare Services) as a Medicare cost report auditor, a position that impacted the final Medicare reimbursements for every hospital across the…
News Briefs: Supreme Court ruling on Chevron makes regulations more vulnerable to legal challenges
The Supreme Court issued a decision June 28 that has dramatic implications for the regulatory infrastructure in healthcare, among many other industries. Under the Supreme Court’s 1984 Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council decision, courts were guided to give deference in their rulings to federal regulatory authorities such as CMS. Such agencies were deemed to…
Kristina Bouyea and Cynthia Low Johnson earn women of the year laurels
Two HFMA members were recently named women of the year by the Northern California Chapter. The awards, which comprise two categories and are selected by an independent, non-HFMA review committee, were presented May 10 at the Chapter’s 11th Annual Women’s Conference. The Emerging Leader: Woman of the Year Award was presented to Kristina Bouyea, government…
HFMA recognizes top 9 articles published in hfm, 3 awarded for editorial excellence
HFMA is recognizing the top nine articles published in hfm during FY23-24, with three selected as the winners of the Helen Yerger/L. Vann Seawell Best Article Award for outstanding editorial achievement. Also lauded are the top three runners-up and top three staff-written articles. Myriad topics from increasing adoption and refinement of payer scorecards to using data…
Julie Lautt: Success in healthcare finance leadership is about setting ambitious goals
Julie Lautt, CFO of Avera Health, has successfully led her team in achieving ambitious goals, overcoming challenges such as healthcare finance policies and the COVID-19 pandemic, and emphasizing the importance of teams and innovation in promoting cost-effectiveness in healthcare.
Annual Conference Day 4: Geeta Nayyar discusses information gaps and the promise and perils of technology
Applications of technology and the purveyance of information are key issues impacting the efficacy of the healthcare system, author and healthcare technology expert Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, explained during Thursday’s keynote session in Las Vegas. In a sit-down discussion with HFMA President and CEO Ann Jordan, Nayyar described working at the intersection of medicine and…
Annual Conference Day 1: HFMA, AHA leaders hold forth on the state of the healthcare industry
HFMA’s 2024 Annual Conference began Monday afternoon with HFMA’s Ann Jordan and the American Hospital Association’s Rick Pollack rallying attendees to address the profound challenges and opportunities facing the industry. To start, Jordan, HFMA’s president and CEO, highlighted the conference theme, “A New Frontier in Health.” Frontier is “an exciting and unsettling word that really…
Incoming HFMA Chair Marc Scher encourages healthcare finance professionals to be more innovative and strategic
Marc Scher, HFMA’s incoming National Chair, was touring the Colorado Snowsports Museum when he came across an exhibit dedicated to the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army. The 10th was a strategic innovation for the Army, designed to address emerging wartime risks, and it created a significant competitive advantage for the United States during…
Ascension selects Saurabh Tripathi as new CFO
Ascension, a nonprofit Catholic health system based in St. Louis, Mo., recently announced that Saurabh Tripathi, MBA, has been tapped as its new CFO. Tripathi brings more than 25 years of executive experience to the position, including time as CFO and treasurer of Highmark Health, where he led growth initiatives and increased access to care.…