How to achieve best-in-class capability for value-based risk contracting
Health systems embarking on value-based contracting should give attention to three areas: understanding market profit pools, acknowledging inherent challenges in the health plan market, and developing the key elements that are essential for success.
Information-sharing rule creates new hospital, health plan transparency requirements
Hospitals and health plans will face new patient data transparency requirements in as soon as six months under two new final rules from the federal government.
State legislators roll back Indiana hospital bill that could have cut payments to hospitals
Health plans seeking state legislative help with site-neutral payments will likely find allies among employers who are increasingly frustrated with healthcare costs.
2020 Healthcare Corporate Services Report
A survey of provider executives about corporate services spending, expense reduction, and technology optimization trends.
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.
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.
Health plan-owned PCP clinics steer members to lower-cost sites-of-service
Hospitals and health systems need to be able to deliver high-quality outcomes in a cost-efficient manner to ensure they are not implicitly tiered out of a health plan's network.
HFMA gathering aims to arm CFOs for coming challenges
Inaugural HFMA Financial Sustainability Summit, April 16-17 in Denver, will bring together more than 200 hospital and physician practice CFOs to learn and share strategies.
Supreme Court’s decision to wait to hear ACA challenge benefits Republicans
Democrats appear to have a strong advantage over Republicans in having gained public trust regarding healthcare policy, so it may be in Republication's interest to steer clear of discussions of healthcare in the time leading up to the November 2020 election.
Find the latest numbers and events shaping healthcare finance
Read about key events and the numbers shaping healthcare finance policy and practice in recent weeks.