Episodios

  • Nov. 26: OPPS; Hospital efficiency

    Nov. 26: OPPS; Hospital efficiency
    Dec 3 2025
    HFMA’s FastFinance newsletter is now a podcast. Host Rich Daly discusses the most current and relevant healthcare news, delivered in an easily digestible format. Former hospital executives detail an approach that helped their organization improve quality while obtaining average commercial rates of 150% of Medicare. Also, this week’s Weird Number: $10 billion. The amount Medicare was expected to spend this year for provision of skin substitutes — one of the treatments on which a new prior authorization model will focus. One More Thing: Details of the recently issued hospital outpatient payment rule from Medicare, which carries significant financial ramifications. Not a FastFinance subscriber? Learn more ⁠⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠⁠
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    7 m
  • Introducing HiFi Health News: How to save on prescription drugs

    Introducing HiFi Health News: How to save on prescription drugs
    Dec 1 2025
    This week, we're sharing an episode of our patient-facing program, HiFi Health News. In this episode, host Erika Grotto talks with Ruchi Talwar, MD from Vanderbilt University Medical Center about how to save money on prescription drugs. For all of our content, subscribe to the HiFi Health News podcast on your favorite app, or see all our videos on YouTube.
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    13 m
  • Fast Finance: Direct contracting push

    Fast Finance: Direct contracting push
    Nov 18 2025
    Employers have a new data source that combines price, quality and safety data and was expected to fuel a renewed push on direct contracting. Also, this week’s Weird Number: 30%. Fewer than 30% of health systems earned significant ROI from most of their virtual care offerings, according to a recent survey of executives by Sage Growth Partners. One More Thing: Healthcare CFOs describe in an HFMA survey how they expect AI to change executive leadership at their organizations. Not a FastFinance subscriber? Learn more ⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠
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    7 m
  • Nov. 17, 2025: The shutdown is over, plus Aetna's update to a controversial payment policy

    Nov. 17, 2025: The shutdown is over, plus Aetna's update to a controversial payment policy
    Nov 17 2025
    Nick Hut and Shawn Stack sum up the latest in healthcare finance news.
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    19 m
  • Healthcare Technology, Episode 3: Opportunities in patient monitoring and telemetry

    Healthcare Technology, Episode 3: Opportunities in patient monitoring and telemetry
    Nov 5 2025
    In the final episode of our technology series sponsored by Philips, Erika speaks with Stacy Kelleher from Philips about data opportunities in patient monitoring and how telemetry can be used more effectively.
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    13 m
  • Nov. 3, 2025: The shutdown continues, plus the latest on 340B

    Nov. 3, 2025: The shutdown continues, plus the latest on 340B
    Nov 3 2025
    HFMA Senior Editor Nick Hut and HFMA Policy Director Shawn Stack discuss the latest in healthcare finance news.
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    16 m
  • Healthcare Technology, Episode 2: Helping patients harness their own data

    Healthcare Technology, Episode 2: Helping patients harness their own data
    Oct 29 2025
    Patients have access to more data than ever, but there can be confusion when they try to interpret it. In this week's episode, we speak with Tim Church, MD from Wondr Health and Jonathan Henderson from Encore Rehabilitation.
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    13 m
  • Healthcare Technology, Episode 1: Solving the right problem at the right time

    Healthcare Technology, Episode 1: Solving the right problem at the right time
    Oct 22 2025
    In the first episode of this special series sponsored by Philips, HFMA Senior Editor Erika Grotto talks with Taylor Seale of Epic and Jeff Gautney from Rush University System for Health about planning and prioritizing technology projects.
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    15 m