Episodios

  • Bonus! Healthcare Blame Game, Live from Las Vegas

    Bonus! Healthcare Blame Game, Live from Las Vegas
    Jul 31 2024
    Deepak Manmohan Goyal, MD, MBBS, MBA, joins Brad and Erika at HFMA Annual on June 27, 2024, to discuss his work as executive director for revenue cycle and supply chain at Monument Health in Rapid City, S.D. and the financial assistance program that has increased the system’s charity care by $7.8 million in its first year. Also in this episode, the best tactic for recovering from a routine screening, according to Erika's eight-year-old daughter.
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    23 m
  • Patient payment and provider collaboration

    Patient payment and provider collaboration
    Jul 29 2024
    Chad Bloomberg of U.S. Bank Healthcare Payment Solutions shares insights on how payment preferences differ depending on demographics, and Oracle's Julie Jensen talks about collaboration as the key to cybersecurity in interviews recorded at HFMA's Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Mentioned in this episode: U.S. Bank Healthcare Payments Insights Report
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    21 m
  • The surest bets from HFMA's Annual Conference in Las Vegas

    The surest bets from HFMA's Annual Conference in Las Vegas
    Jul 15 2024
    Laxmi Patel from Savista discusses the potential for AI, and Kevin Hidenfelter from Millenia shares insights about generational payment preferences in interviews conducted live at HFMA's Annual Conference in Las Vegas. HFMA's Nick Hut and Shawn Stack discuss the Supreme Court ruling overturning the Chevron doctrine and the implications for healthcare.
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    21 m
  • Answering the Change Healthcare wakeup call

    Answering the Change Healthcare wakeup call
    Jul 1 2024
    The February cyberattack on Change Healthcare has healthcare organizations looking not only at their own cybersecurity practices of but those of their business partners. On today's episode, Greg Surla and Jeff Becker from FinThrive discuss how healthcare organizations can prepare for the inevitable next attack and how to ensure business continuity in the aftermath.
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    17 m
  • Saying goodbye to the BMI

    Saying goodbye to the BMI
    Jun 17 2024
    The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a long-standing measure used in healthcare. But this height/weight ratio was originally meant for statistical use only and has no proven standing as a measure of health. Yet a patient's BMI is used to make critical decisions about their care. In this episode, Dr. Holly Ann Russell, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center and medical director for the Center of Community Health and Prevention, discusses what measures providers should be focusing on instead and why weighing patients at every visit is unnecessary.
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    26 m
  • Healthcare Blame Game: What media and lawmakers don't understand about healthcare finance

    Healthcare Blame Game: What media and lawmakers don't understand about healthcare finance
    Jun 3 2024
    HFMA Policy Director Andrew Donahue’s column, “An open letter to Congress on nonprofit hospital finances,” has struck a chord with members. In this episode, he discusses margins, investments and M&A and what measure tells the real story of hospital finance. Also in this episode, Brad talks about the recent HFMA report Curing Payment Confusion. Also mentioned in this episode: Healthcare 2030: Restoring Trust in Healthcare Assessing Reality in Healthcare Financial Information | HFMA
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    17 m
  • Gaining the confidence and skill to improve your public speaking

    Gaining the confidence and skill to improve your public speaking
    May 20 2024
    HFMA's Annual Conference is mere weeks away. If you're sweating your presentation, today's episode is for you. Rhonda Khan of Simply Speech Solutions gives her thoughts on how to hook your audience and get your message across. Also in this episode, Nick Hut and Shawn Stack share the latest on the Change Healthcare cyberattack and look at what's happening in Washington.
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    22 m
  • What's more uncomfortable than menopause? A workplace discussion about it.

    What's more uncomfortable than menopause? A workplace discussion about it.
    May 6 2024
    Dr. Bruce Dorr of Biote discusses the challenges facing perimenopausal women in the workplace and what leaders should be doing to support them.
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    19 m