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.

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

One More Thing: Healthcare CFOs describe in an HFMA survey how they expect AI to change executive leadership at their organizations.

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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.

Health systems nationwide are pushing to increase efficiency ahead of federal funding cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. One health system is pretending the cuts have already begun in order to give urgency to its efforts.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: $84 billion. That's the amount of higher spending Medicare is spending on enrollees in Medicare Advantage, compared to what it would have spent if they stayed in traditional Medicare.

One More Thing: Employers mistakenly think their workers can afford their health insurance coverage, new polling found.

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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.

Congress is pressing CMS to release long-delayed rules that would implement requirements that providers create good faith estimates for their patients.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: As of July, 96.5% of independent dispute resolution disputes submitted since the program’s start have been resolved or are less than 30 business days old.

One More Thing: Hospitals could face reviews from HRSA on whether they complied with rules surrounding Provider Relief Fund monies.

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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. An employer group identifies where businesses have pushed--and attained--the greatest healthcare savings from plans and providers.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: $1.7 billion is available for hospitals from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield settlement.

One More Thing: Learn what 340B policy proposals are drawing the greatest hospital concerns over their price tag.

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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. MedPAC found increasing local Medicare Advantage enrollment had little effect on hospitals' margins. But some have questioned those findings.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: As many as one million patients fall in hospitals each year, which brings large costs.

One More Thing: Learn why and how commercial payers are increasingly targeting hospital costs.

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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. Medicare enrollees' out-of-pocket drug costs have jumped this year, according to recent research. Learn what effects researchers expect.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: 95% of business leaders expect no measurable business return from their AI pilot programs.

One More Thing: Learn which hospitals are most vulnerable to proposed cuts in Medicare bad debt payments.

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Hospitals’ financial performance continues to improve this

Also, this week’s Weird Number: One million people have

One More Thing: Hospitals and health systems