HFMA’s Voices in Healthcare Finance

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.

A list of alleged financial harms against hospitals are at the heart of Texas' anticompetitive lawsuit again EHR vendor Epic. Learn why its details are required reading.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: 40%. That’s how much higher the year-to-date bad debt and charity care per day are for hospitals compared to their year-to-date amount in 2022.

One More Thing: HHS is appealing the recent pause from a federal judge of the 340B rebate model.

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Nick Hut and Shawn Stack discuss what's coming in healthcare in 2026 with Katie Gilfillan from HFMA's policy team.

HFMA policy director Katie Gilfillan joins Nick Hut and Shawn Stack as they discuss the Medicare physician fee schedule for 2026. Also in this episode, Nick and Shawn analyze the hospital OPPS Medicare payment update for 2026.

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.

As states are increasingly requiring pre-screening patients for charity care, a recent industry outreach effort gauged hospital interest and approaches.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: 500,000. That’s how many people quit their jobs in healthcare or social assistance in August—the latest month with a breakdown on that from the Labor Department.

One More Thing: A new lawsuit seeks to stop the Jan. 1 launch of the 340B

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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.

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.

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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.

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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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Nick Hut and Shawn Stack sum up the latest in healthcare finance news.

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.