HFMA newsletters help you find solutions

Healthcare Financial Management, Annual, 2004

Whether you're looking for ways to maintain regulatory compliance or tips for achieving top operational performance goals, you'll find solutions in three information-packed newsletters published by HFMA. A one-year subscription will bring 12 issues that deliver strategies for improving the revenue cycle, driving results, and generating new revenue and controlling costs.

PatientAccounts

From denials management to coding, from transactions standards to prompt payment, PatientAccounts offers insights, actions, and examples that will help revenue--cycle leaders and patient financial services professionals in healthcare organizations achieve peak revenue-cycle performance. This monthly newsletter is packed with information that readers need to improve their bottom line and maintain regulatory compliance. Look for feature articles focusing on the latest revenue-cycle issues, interviews with the best in the business, quick tips, updates on billing and coding issues, case studies on hospital turnarounds, and practical data. Whether you're concerned about meeting HIPAA's mandates or improving your accounts receivables, PatientAccounts should be your source of breakthrough solutions for revenue-cycle success.

Coming in 2004: Look for a transformed, renamed PatientAccounts, featuring even more strategies for successful revenue-cycle results.

Executive Insights

Executive Insights offers commentary and best practices on healthcare delivery issues such as workforce shortages, rising malpractice premiums, consumerism, and the aging population. This monthly newsletter is filled with information that readers need to manage for higher quality performance and greater profitability. Executive Insights content includes feature articles focusing on strategic planning, interviews with innovative healthcare leaders, financial case studies, and practical data. When caught between trends like declining payment and increasing utilization, executives can look to Executive Insights for sound advice on how to prioritize and manage what's on their plate.

Managing the Margin

Looking for new ways to generate revenue and control costs? CFOs and other senior financial executives can depend on Managing the Margin for the strategic solutions needed to succeed in today's tough economic times. You'll find innovative ideas for introducing new services lines, best practices for managing the supply chain, and practical tips for achieving lop operational performance goals. No revenue strategy is off-limits--whether it's using productivity data to control labor costs, combating niche providers with strategic pricing, or simply discussing some easy-to-implement changes in a food service menu to improve the bottom line. Managing the Margin's full-length features, expert interviews, benchmarking comparisons, and real-life case studies help give readers of this monthly newsletter an inside track to gain--and maintain--a competitive edge.

For information on subscribing to PatientAccounts, Executive Insights, and Managing the Margin, visit www.hfma.org/publications/ newsletters/subscribenews.cfm, or call toll-free (800) 252-HFMA (4362), ext. 2.