HFMA’s Voices in Healthcare Finance

Rich Daly interviews HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer about where he sees the industry going in 2020 and beyond. Also, Change Healthcare's Jason Williams discusses the opportunities of artificial intelligence technology, and Brad Dennison, HFMA's director of content strategy, talks about the redesign of hfm magazine. Get more of Joe's interview in the January issue of hfm.

In this episode, HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer debuts a series of conversations with health system CFOs. His inaugural interview is with Mike Allen, HFMA's 2019-2020 Chair and the CFO at OSF HealthCare in Peoria, Illinois.

In this special New Year's Day episode, we're thinking about HFMA's upcoming Annual Conference in San Antonio and looking back at HFMA's 2019 Annual Conference with four never-before-heard interviews. Kyle Hicok of Revint Solutions talks about change management; Michael Mercurio of the Partners Professional billing office discusses the opportunities and challenges of AI in the revenue cycle; and Trenor Williams of Socially Determined shares insights about the social determinants of health.   Learn more about the 2020 Annual Conference at annual.hfma.org.

In this special episode, we revisit two of our most popular episodes, in which Nicholas Mendyka of the University of Virginia Health System Medical Center talks about his vision for the revenue cycle of the future. Also, Mary Mirabelli, HFMA's vice president of content strategy and delivery, comes into the studio to talk about HFMA's Financial Sustainability Summit, happening April 16 and 17 in Denver.

Nancy Johnson, CEO of El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson, talks about her organization’s processes for addressing the social determinants of health among its patient population. The interview is a follow-up to a panel discussion at HFMA's 2019 Thought Leadership Retreat (for much more on how healthcare stakeholders can address SDOH, see the report on this year’s retreat). Also in this episode: insights on effective leadership of teams and pricing strategy objectives.

The podcast team breaks down the recently issued CMS final rule around price transparency. Also, a rural health system in South Dakota discusses how it transformed its revenue cycle by focusing on self-pay patients.

David Shelton of PatientMatters talks about how the industry can eliminate surprise bills for good. Rich Daly interviews Paul Anderson from Strata Decision Technology about total cost of care. Also, five ways to engage millennial patients.    Check out this HFMA resource tracking trends and insights on understanding and utilizing total cost of care data:  www.hfma.org/tcoc 

Keynote speaker and comedienne Jan McInnis shares tips for using humor in the workplace. Marty Lucenti of sponsor organization Vizient, and Stacy Brethauer of the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center talk about creating a clinically-integrated supply chain. HFMA's LMS Channel Manager Maegan Bishop provides five tips for being more productive.

Nick Hut interviews Michelle Stansbury of Houston Methodist about her organization's work toward a better patient experience. Also: Katie Gilfillan, HFMA's director, healthcare finance policy, physician and clinical practice, joins Rich Daly and Chad Mulvany to talk about the major themes discussed at the Association's recent Thought Leadership Retreat in Washington, D.C. This episode is sponsored by Vizient, Inc.

On the day that public comments were due to CMS on its proposed rule that would require the controversial public release of rates hospitals negotiated with health plans, Joe Fifer, president and CEO of HFMA, and Chad Mulvany, director of health finance policy and analysis for HFMA, preview their comments to CMS. Learn about the promise and peril of the approach CMS is taking to this key transparency issue.