Operations

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule on Medicaid payments to disproportionate share hospitals last week, cutting approximately $1.1 billion from the program over the next two fiscal years.

The role of the healthcare CFO is dramatically changing and expanding. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the position specifications that leading organizations are drafting as they search for their next financial leader.

Health insurers have reached out to consumers in a blitz of in-person, online and networked information and events so those who need coverage or want to change their current individual coverage will know how to connect with and be comfortable with the health insurance exchanges.

Author Hamad Al-Daig talks about implementing and investing in a healthcare data warehouse.

Authors George T. Hickman and Detlev (Herb) Smaltz talk about their healthcare IT planning book and the role of finance administrators HIT strategy.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $67 million in Affordable Care Act funds to support community health centers, including $19 million to establish 32 new healthcare delivery sites.

Being surveyed to participate in the Medicare program is usually seen as an onerous task by most healthcare facilities, but the hospice community wants to be surveyed more frequently, even if the cost of those surveys comes out of its own pocket.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending September 13, 2013.

With labor costs in 2013 accounting for approximately 60 percent of hospital and health system operating budgets, many healthcare systems and hospitals have begun assessing high-labor cost areas with an eye to curbing those costs.

Two-thirds of U.S. hospitals will receive payment reductions tied to Medicare readmission penalties to see that improving the level of care will be the foundation for building operational sustainability in the future.